The horror anthology film enjoyed something a resurgence in the 2010s (The ABCS of Death and V/H/S franchises, The Theatre Bizarre (2011), Southbound (2015), Tales of Halloween (2015), XX (2017) et al). Holidays takes that intermittently popular genre trope, the holiday themed horror film, and manages to celebrate no fewer than seven of them in … Continue reading
John Jopson’s Terroir is the film that targets the horror fans/wine lovers demographic that surely no-one from either camp ever asked for. The title refers to the numerous environmental factors that can affect a crop and is an arcane aspect of wine making that, conveniently, sounds a but like “terror.” We learn all this through … Continue reading
By turns funny, scary, ludicrous and utterly compelling, Andre Øvredal’s found footage take on Scandinavian found footage folk horror seems at first to be just another The Blair Witch Project (1999) clone. The obligatory trio of camera-toting film students, Thomas (Glenn Erland Tosterud), Johanna (Johanna Mørck) and Kalle (Tomas Alf Larsen) set out to make … Continue reading
We’re (just over) half way through 2018 and so far it’s been a pretty good year for genre cinema. Here’s my half-time round-up of the ten films that I’ve enjoyed so far this year. As ever with these things I can obviously only comment on the films I’ve actually seen (there are very many I’ve … Continue reading
Oh, where to begin… This review first appeared on the EOFFTV Review as part of a series of folk horror reviews in May 2018. When discussing the series with people who thought that they didn’t know what folk horror was, a brief explanation invariably elicited the same response – “oh you mean like The Wicker … Continue reading
In 1968, young people seemed to have had enough. The generation gap – widening since the late 1950s – had never seemed so wider. Students in France staged a series of occupation protests that would trigger the strikes that would grip the nation in May and the street battles in Paris as disaffected youth fought … Continue reading
Love it or loathe it, there’s no denying the impact that The Blair Witch Project made on horror cinema. Its many detractors will try to point you in the direction of Cannibal Holocaust (1979) and The Last Broadcast (1998) as examples of the “found footage” form predating Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick’s film though in … Continue reading
