HorRHIFFic 2026: ‘We Put the World to Sleep’ Review Stars: Adrian Tofei, Duru Yücel, Andreea Enciu, Erisse Peterson, Danha Yunes | Written by Adrian Tofei, Duru Yücel | Directed by Adrian Tofei The making of an apocalyptic found footage film goes wrong when those behind its creation become lost in their characters and embark upon a secret mission to end the world… but for […]

HorRHIFFic 2026: ‘We Put the World to Sleep’ Review

‘The Huntsman’ DVD Review Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Shaun Ashmore, Jessy Schram, Elizabeth Mitchell, Brent Bailey, Maddison Bullock, Bruce Davis | Written by Kyle Kauwika Harris, Steven Jon Whritner | Directed by Kyle Kauwika Harris The Huntsman – not to be confused with the Chris Hemsworth vehicle of the same name, although there is a Snow White connection here. There’s […]

‘The Huntsman’ DVD Review

HorRHIFFic 2026: ‘Beyond Mamushi’ Review Stars: Corina Jayne, Jemma Thompson, Gary Cross, Stephen Atkins, Kathy Griffiths | Written and Directed by M W Daniels A blistering portrayal of domestic violence gets a supernatural twist in Beyond Mamushi, a new low-budget thriller from director M W Daniels. Appearing in her debut role, Corina Jayne stars as troubled Kate, whose dream home […]

HorRHIFFic 2026: ‘Beyond Mamushi’ Review

On sale from February 27, this month’s @starburst.bsky.social contains my visit to the set of Brad Anderson’s WORLDBREAKER and my interview with the lovely Luke Evans. Reader, I swooned.

‘A spiritual awakening’: why Con Air is my feelgood movie The latest in our series of writers on their most important comfort films is a celebration of Nicolas Cage’s finest action moment

Honoured and thrilled to make my debut writing for The Guardian today. Even prouder to say I did so writing about Nicolas Cage

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‘A Stranger in the Woods’ VOD Review Stars: Laura Ellen Wilson, Bill Oberst Jr., Lynn Lowry, Shawn Michael Clankie | Written by József Gallai, Beáta Boldog | Directed by József Gallai In unsettling found footage film A Stranger in the Woods, by director József Gallai, filmmaker Edith (Laura Ellen Wilson) heads into remote woodland America to interview the reclusive old man said to […]

‘A Stranger in the Woods’ VOD Review

‘Delivery Run’ VOD Review Stars: Alexander Arnold, Jussi Lampi, Liam James Collins, Arthur Sylense, Nadine Higgin, Jeremiah Crosby, Darren McStay, Celin El Azizi | Written by Joey Palmroos, Anders Holmes | Directed by Joey Palmroos A hard-up food delivery driver finds himself fighting for his life when he makes an enemy of a murderous snowplough driver in snowy Minnesota. […]

‘Delivery Run’ VOD Review

She’s a star! My Contributor’s copy of PEARL is now in the house from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social - featuring my piece on isolation and the cinema of pandemics

WICKED: FOR GOOD Wicked: For Good struggles to recapture the magic of either the first half or the stage show it's based on.

The first WICKED movie stole my heart. I reviewed the second for @starburst.bsky.social Sad to say, I wasn’t feeling the magic so much this time around

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Happy new PREDATOR day! I had a blast reviewing BADLANDS for @starburst.bsky.social

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BUGONIA Two conspiracy nuts abduct a high-powered CEO in this black comedy thriller from Poor Things and The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos. Convinced that pharmaceutical boss Michelle (Emma Stone) is an a...

I adored BUGONIA, which I munched up like a weird, delicious spaghetti dinner and then reviewed for @starburst.bsky.social

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MAG MAG [FrightFest Halloween 2025] - STARBURST Magazine J-horror tropes are turned on their head in Mag Mag, a gleefully subversive comedy-horror from director and comedian Yuriyan Retriever.

Last but not least from @frightfest.bsky.social is my favourite film of this year’s Halloween - the delightfully madcap J-horror film MAG MAG. You guessed it, for @starburst.bsky.social

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DOLLY [FrightFest Halloween 2025] Pulverising The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and '00s French extremity into bloody mincemeat, Dolly makes no attempt to hide its influences.

Thoroughly dug the @frightfest.bsky.social film DOLLY, a good old-fashioned dose of extreme slasher horror - again, for @starburst.bsky.social

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THE TURKISH COFFEE TABLE [FrightFest Halloween 2025] - STARBURST Magazine A horror film I swore I would never watch again finds its way back under the skin in this all-too faithful remake by Baskin director Can Evrenol. Anyone unlucky enough to have seen Caye Casas’s feel-b...

Up next for @frightfest.bsky.social is a remake of a film I swore I would never watch again - THE TURKISH COFFEE TABLE, for @starburst.bsky.social

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EVERY HEAVY THING [FrightFest Halloween 2025] A milquetoast advert seller for an online periodical finds himself embroiled in a serial killer’s sinister game when he stumbles across his latest bloody murder. Terrified into silence and complicity,...

Next for @frightfest.bsky.social is the deeply odd serial killer thriller EVERY HEAVY THING, also for @starburst.bsky.social

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DEATHGASM II: GOREMAGEDDON [FrightFest Halloween 2025] - STARBURST Magazine With his 2015 comedy-horror film Deathgasm, director Jason Lei Howden perfectly captured the listlessness of the teenage misfit. Yes, it was primarily a coming-of-age story about a young metalhead, bu...

My coverage of @frightfest.bsky.social Halloween begins here - first up, my review of DEATHGASM II for @starburst.bsky.social

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Martyrs (2008) Considered a pivotal work of the French Extreme Cinema movement, Martyrs is a film once seen, never forgotten. While once may be one time too many for some, the film has reared its ugly little head ag...

Out now in a very special 4K edition set, I revisited MARTYRS for @starburst.bsky.social

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TIE-IN ME UP, TIE-IN ME DOWN – “THE DESCENT: THE OFFICIAL MOVIE NOVELIZATION” SEEKS TO FIND NEW DEPTHS IN A MODERN HORROR CLASSIC - Rue Morgue Author Christian Francis delivers a brisk and faithful (if flawed) literary reworking of Neil Marshall's beloved 2005 horror film.

TIE-IN ME UP, TIE-IN ME DOWN – “THE DESCENT: THE OFFICIAL MOVIE NOVELIZATION” seeks to find new depths in a modern horror classic. https://ow.ly/7wKE50XggA5 Joel Harley

The most 'unpredictable' horror movie of the decade is now streaming on Netflix You need to see this one for yourself.

To coincide with its release on Netflix this week, I wrote about my favorite @frightfest.bsky.social hit of 2022 for Metro UK

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Watched CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD

DANGEROUS ANIMALS - STARBURST Magazine Man proves to be the world’s most dangerous animal in the latest thriller from The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy director Sean Byrne. One man specifically: Bruce Tucker, played by former Captain Bo...

A serial killer thriller with a great villain and an even better final girl, I dug DANGEROUS ANIMALS, although I would have liked to have dug it a little bit more. My review for @starburst.bsky.social

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THE RITUAL - STARBURST Magazine Every exorcism cliché one can imagine is summoned up in The Ritual, a religious horror film by David Midell.

‘Less of a ritual, more of a chore’ - my review of THE RITUAL, for @starburst.bsky.social

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Fear Street: Prom Queen Four years after Netflix's ambitious three-part Fear Street trilogy, the franchise resurfaces with a new standalone entry.

Watching FEAR STREET: PROM QUEEN as a person over a certain age is like going to prom as a certain age - headache inducing, mildly annoying and not for you in the first place.

My review, for @starburst.bsky.social:

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THE SEVERED SUN A young woman finds herself at odds with her neighbours in a remote community of religious fanatics, led by her father, the town Pastor (Toby Stephens). With her abusive husband having been killed und...

Via @starburst.bsky.social - folk horror tale THE SEVERED SUN keeps its black tendrils wrapped around the brain long after the end credits roll.

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TIE-IN ME UP, TIE-IN ME DOWN: “DEADGIRL” RESURRECTS A CONTROVERSIAL CULT CLASSIC - Rue Morgue Author Bridgett Nelson's novelization is a wryly subversive take on its source material that finally gives its titular character a voice, brain and sense of agency.

The latest edition of my column for Rue Morgue Magazine tackles Bridgett Nelson’s DEADGIRL novelisation - a film I hated resurrected with a bold new take on the source material

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Final Destination: Bloodlines Fourteen years after last traumatising a generation with everything from logging trucks to tanning beds, horror’s most disaster-prone franchise returns, fully loaded with a fresh vat of nightmare fuel...

There’s never been a bad Final Destination film (fight me) so BLOODLINES can’t be a return to form, but this belated sequel finds the franchise in fine fettle.

My review is up now with @starburst.bsky.social

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Shocking horror movie that caused walkouts streaming now on iPlayer 'Surgery is the new sex.'

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is streaming now on BBC iPlayer, and I wrote about it for @metrouk.bsky.social

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Nicolas Cage does Ozploitation in THE SURFER, which I reviewed for @starburst.bsky.social

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THE UGLY STEPSISTER - STARBURST Magazine A tale as old as time (no, not that one) is re-told from another perspective in this grim fairytale by writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt. All Elvira (Lea Myren) wants is to marry the handsome Prin...

Grisly Cinderella story THE UGLY STEPSISTER had me retching. I reviewed it for @starburst.bsky.social

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AN TAIBHSE (The Ghost) - Irish Language Horror Film Official Trailer YouTube video by Cathal Fitzpatrick

Quoted here for @starburst.bsky.social talking here about AN TAIBHSE (The Ghost), one of my favourite films of last year’s @frightfest.bsky.social

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