Everyone loves a good Halloween-themed horror, preferably set in the dead of night in a haunted house, midnight graveyard or similar deserted location. But what about horror films set mainly in summer, in broad daylight or crowded situations? Nina Romain looks into the true nightmare of Halloween horror Sick of cliched festive films and glow […]
Independent horror is having another moment. Not the polished studio kind built by committee and market research. Not horror diluted into “elevated content” for streaming algorithms. We mean the real thing: strange visions, dangerous ideas, midnight audiences, filmmakers breaking rules because they have no choice. And that is exactly why horror belongs at Raindance. For […]
Have you heard of the new movie made for a half million? Which took $15mil in it’s first two weeks? It was shot in the filmmaker’s childhood home. Here is the trailer: Let’s take this apart properly—because this isn’t just a trailer. It’s a blueprint. Most trailers try to show you everything. This one understands […]
Ryan Coogler’s box-office smash has so many things going for it: incredible music, intense vampire mayhem, and a deep sense of history. Along with all of these elements, it also breathes with characters who have a strong grounding in their religious tradition, whether that be the Baptist faith that Sammie struggles to escape or the […]
Horrorhounds get to start the new year off in style with a five-day selection of spookiness when Southend-on-Sea hosts festival Horror-on-Sea next week, featuring 1970s horror legends as well as modernday microhorrors. Nina Romain talks to two longstanding festival attendees about shooting shark films in a hotel lift at the festival as well as at […]
With the big day drawing ever closer and festive horrors on the big screen, Nina Romain looks at mistletoe-themed murders “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.” The […]
With Halloween just around the corner, you’ll need to be fit to outrun those mask wearing slasher bad guys. Nina Romain looks at gore in sports on the big screen in time for some festive viewing. With Jordan Peele-produced horror Him (2025) recently distributed, sports violence is back on the big screen. Peele’s feature opens […]
At first glance, horror and romance seem worlds apart — one ends with a scream, the other with a kiss. But look closer and you’ll see they share the same emotional DNA. Both ask the same terrifying question: “Will I survive this feeling?” The Same Emotional Blueprint Horror is about the fear of losing life. Romance […]
When you strip filmmaking down to its bare essentials — light, sound, and human imagination — one genre keeps coming back from the dead: horror. No other genre rewards limitation like horror does. You don’t need car chases or VFX. What you need is tension, sound, and the courage to leave some things unseen. 1. Fear […]
Every horror fan has their first time. For Henry Wong, it was watching Scream on a forbidden VHS tape at his grandparents’ house. As he recalls in his Esquire (Autumn 2025 edition) feature, “you never forget your first time”. That moment of illicit terror — hiding behind a cushion, half-laughing, half-terrified — is almost a […]
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