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Lisa Frankenstein (2024) - For the Weird Girls
Lisa Frankenstein(2024) is a fun, quirky zom-rom-com. It's also an endearing gothic love story. The film follows Lisa Swallows ( Kathryn...

Sophie Turner
May 7, 2024


Dear David (2023) - The Wrong Medium
Dear David (2023) was a film that I don't think anyone thought would actually become real. In fact, the rumours of a film deal only...

Sophie Turner
Apr 30, 2024


Fall (2022) - A Tense Ride
Fall (2022) is certainly not a film to watch if you're afraid of heights - or it's perfect, since it's tailor made to your fears. (After...

Sophie Turner
Apr 22, 2024


Saw IV-VII - You Know What You're in for
A while ago, I wrote about how I was done with the Saw series after the third installment of the franchise . I don't think I mentioned it...

Sophie Turner
Apr 15, 2024


Stitches (2012) - Leaning into the Absurdity
As a total clown-phobe, when I found out there was a clown-based horror movie staring Luke from the Sarah Jane Adventures, I knew I had...

Sophie Turner
Apr 8, 2024


Occulus (2013) - Mind-Bending
Occulus (2013) is earning its place as a quiet, classic of the horror genre. It has the soft, eerie chills contrasted with toe-curling...

Sophie Turner
Apr 1, 2024


Smile (2022) - A Messy Message
Smile (2022) follows the story of Rose Cutter ( Sosie Bacon ), a therapist who witnesses one of her patients commit an awful act in her office. It turns out this patient was plagued by an entity that latches onto whoever witnesses its deadly deeds, creating a train of trauma wherever it goes. The monster takes residence in its victims mind, providing oodles of scares with disturbing hallucinations, including causing its namesake: to make give everyone a wide, unsettling, unbl

Sophie Turner
Mar 25, 2024


Chucky (2021) - A Lot to Talk About
There's a lot to talk about with Chucky, so this is a long one: Some people were excited at the new Chucky T.V series bringing back the...

Sophie Turner
Jun 13, 2022


Lizzie (2018) - A Love-story, First and Foremost
Lizzie (2018) is a slow burn. A very slow burn, choosing to look at relationships over the main event. Which, at the very least, makes...

Sophie Turner
Jun 6, 2022


Us (2019) - You Need to Watch it Twice
When I first watched Us (2019) , my gut reaction at the twist was - not bad, but I didn't like it. (I did, however, love the rest of the movie!) I did the classic thing (which I hate) of googling the ending to have it explained by someone else. And I did, begrudgingly, understand the point Peele was making. I let it sit, and came to the conclusion that we just don't like our 'good guys' to really be 'bad guys.' Which was exactly the question the twist posed - who was 'good'

Sophie Turner
May 30, 2022


Bad Hair: Self Aware and Succeeding
Look, Bad Hair (2020) knows it has a silly premise and bonkers story. But it leans into it with humour and fun. And said silly premise? A...

Sophie Turner
May 23, 2022


Spiral: Its Actually Fun to Guess Twists
It's hard to call Spiral a 'reboot,' when Jigsaw only came out in 2017. It's certainly a continuation of the series, only it took the ...

Sophie Turner
May 16, 2022


Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Good When it's Scary Stories
If The Haunting Hour is one step scarier than Goosebumps , then the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books a re two...or maybe three....

Sophie Turner
May 9, 2022


Pumpkinhead: A Movie of Two Halves
Pumpkinhead (1988) is a movie of two halves. The first is a touching tragedy where we feel close to a father's grief, and the second...

Sophie Turner
May 2, 2022


House of 1000 Corpses - More of a Music Video
House of 1000 Corpses was Rob Zombie's first movie, and it shows that his talent is probably in songwriting, not directing. House of 1000...

Sophie Turner
Apr 25, 2022


Cabin Fever - The Strangest Decisions
As good as that scene is, if you've just thrown your friend, who has a flesh-eating virus, into a shed to die a lonely death, and then...

Sophie Turner
Apr 18, 2022


Freaks (1932) - What Makes a Horror?
The 1932 film Freaks has been revered as a classic, said to make some people physically ill at its release. As a result, the version we...

Sophie Turner
Apr 11, 2022


The Conjuring - As is Expected
"They feel the same way about Bear Grylls as you do about the Conjuring people." -My friend, and I understood instantly exactly what they...

Sophie Turner
Apr 4, 2022


The Possession of Hannah Grace - A Misnomer, But That's Okay
The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018) is 10% about Hannah Grace and 90% a night in the morgue. And that makes it work well. It follows...

Sophie Turner
Mar 28, 2022


Hostel - We Live in a Society
Hostel (2005) has been praised for body horror and a concept that will make you think twice about that lad's holiday to a dodgy hotel....

Sophie Turner
Mar 21, 2022
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