Marvelous Videos presents the season of the witch…. Witches are a perennial staple of Halloween, but that prominence amongst kid decorum and costume fantasies has ruined their original mythological nature. These creepy old hags didn’t emerge out of nowhere – there was this genuine fear amongst older civilizations that individuals (mostly women) were capable of […]
Greatness Beckons for Anya Taylor-Joy
Tom Jolliffe on the rise of Anya Taylor-Joy and just how far she could go… Have you seen The Queen’s Gambit? Have you? What about you? You must see The Queen’s Gambit (and repeat ad nauseum). The latest water cooler TV show that only a few sad wretches haven’t yet seen is making waves across […]
The Northman – Destined for Greatness?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the upcoming Viking epic from Robert Eggers, The Northman… Robert Eggers is two features into his fledgling film career and has already established himself as a major voice in auteur horror. Comparisons to Kubrick have been thrown his way with two films, The Witch and The Lighthouse, which is high praise […]
A Big Year for Three Modern Horror Masters
Tom Jolliffe takes a look ahead to The Nightingale, Midsommar and The Lighthouse… There’s been some great horror films in the last five years. Three in particular for me really harked back to a classic era sensibility, owing a lot to the best era in creepy atmospheric horror. These would evoke films (among others…) like […]
Ultraviolent action thriller The Witch gets a UK trailer
Signature Entertainment has unveiled a UK trailer for Park Hoon-jung’s ultraviolent action thriller The Witch, which is set for a digital release next month; check it out below, along with the official synopsis… 10 years ago, Ja-yoon escaped from a government facility during an inexplicable incident and lost all her memory. She grows up to […]
The Problem with Hereditary’s Marketing
Helen Murdoch on the problem with Hereditary’s marketing… All of the recent 5 star reviews of Ari Aster’s horror Hereditary have got me thinking about what we expect going into a film versus what we actually see. Hereditary depicts the most horrific displays of grief that I’ve ever seen committed to screen, but based on […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2016
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2016… As 2016 draws to a close and we ring in the New Year, Flickering Myth’s writers have been putting our collective heads together to vote on the best cinematic offerings from the past twelve months. As always, we’ve voted on our individual top ten […]
Halloween: 5 Best Horror Films of 2016 So Far
Samuel Brace with the five best horror films of 2016 so far… 2015 gave us its own set of fantastic horror films. Knock Knock and It Follows being two that spring instantly to mind. Horror is having somewhat of a renaissance of late. The embrace of the art house aspect of the genre is a […]
Blu-ray Review – The Witch (2015)
The Witch, 2015. Written and Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson. SYNOPSIS: A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession. Much to the chagrin of its fans, the horror genre is often incorrectly dismissed […]
Movie Review – The Witch (2016)
The Witch, 2016. Written and Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson. SYNOPSIS: A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession. Writer/Director Robert Eggers’ first feature film The Witch has an intriguing effect for […]
