top of page

Hot Choc & horror





Search


Look Away (2018) - The Real Horror is the Patiarchy
Look Away (2019) feels like a Disney Channel Horror Movie. The premise at least, is interesting, and it’s protagonist is somewhat more...

Sophie Turner
Apr 16, 2021


Daniel Isn't Real (2019) - Fight Club Dialled Higher
The premise of Daniel Isn’t Real (2019) is an already heard, yet interesting one: is a young boy’s imaginary friend really imaginary?...

Sophie Turner
Apr 12, 2021


Rabid (2019) - The Soska Sisters Continue to Impress
Rabid (2019) is a remake of the Cronenburg classic, in which a woman’s surgery after a devastating accident has some concerning side...

Sophie Turner
Apr 9, 2021


The Jack in the Box (2020) - A Successful Small Production
The Jack in the Box (2020) is a straightforward monster movie featuring, obviously, an evil creature who lives in a Jack in the Box. It...

Sophie Turner
Apr 7, 2021


Braid (2018) - A Pretty, Muddled Mess
Nobody Leaves, or Braid (2018), tells the story of two friends who seek refuge with a third friend, after a drug heist. The catch is that...

Sophie Turner
Jan 11, 2021


Hereditary - Needs to be More Than Disturbing
Here’s an unpopular opinion – I feel Hereditary(2018) relied on being strange and disturbing and got too much praise for it. I can’ t say much the premise of this film, because it kind of spoils everything. The best I can do is that a family find out some weird truths about their grandmother after her passing. And that’s part of the problem. Hereditary feels like it relies on shock tactics in order to stand out from the crowd. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know the event that was

Sophie Turner
Jan 8, 2021


The Fly (1986) - What's the Real Horror?
Left dissatisfied with Bite (2015), I was directed to Cronenberg’s The Fly. This is one of the movies where I cannot think of a lot to...

Sophie Turner
Jan 5, 2021


Bite (2015): A Confused 'The Fly'
Bite(2015) was on a list of movies that 'apparently' made people sick when watching them. So, of course I had to give it a viewing, and...

Sophie Turner
Jan 3, 2021


Wish Upon - If Disney did Horror
Wish Upon (2017) watches like a gory-er Disney Channel Original Movie – and when it does that, it’s surprisingly enjoyable. When it...

Sophie Turner
Dec 30, 2020


Dead Silence - A Draft of a Better Movie?
When I found out that the director of Dead Silence (James Wan, 2007) was the same director behind the Saw films I thought ‘that explains...

Sophie Turner
Aug 8, 2020


American Mary - A Cautionary Tale for Who?
After watching Rabid, I was dying to check out the Soska’s sisters other body horror: American Mary. (2012) It naturally falls into the...

Sophie Turner
Aug 3, 2020


Lights Out - When Horror Should Stay Short
The short film Lights Out (directed by David F Sandberg, 2013)was so successful that three years after it was made, it was adapted into a...

Sophie Turner
Jul 31, 2020


Clown (2014) – Deserves More Credit
Not to sound like a Youtube video Essay video, but Clown (directed by Jon Watts, 2014) should be talked about more. The premise of the...

Sophie Turner
Jul 27, 2020


Perfect Skin – Stretching an Idea?
Penny’s transformation in American Horror Story: Freak Show was probably the scene in that series that disturbed me the most. So when I...

Sophie Turner
Jul 24, 2020


Dolls (1987) - A Traditionally Grimm Fairy Tale
Dolls (directed by Stuart Gordon, 1987) is a film that has all of the elements of a classic Grimm fairy tale – including the grisly details, and that makes it all the more enjoyable. The premise – a family break down in the middle of nowhere, and take shelter in an elderly toy-making couple’s Scooby-Doo-esque house. We follow Judy (Carrie Lorraine), a girl with an almost laughably awful father (Ian Patrick Williams), and a cartoonishly evil stepmother (Caroline Purdy-Gordon).

Sophie Turner
Jul 20, 2020


Before I Wake - For the Horror-Phobic
The ending of Before I Wake (written and directed by Mike Flannagan, 2016) twists the whole movie into something sad and beautiful which...

Sophie Turner
Jul 19, 2020
bottom of page