The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House
I am, as most of you likely know by now, a huge fan of the Saw franchise. Put me in a pighead mask and call me Amanda, but, for my sins, I can’t get enough of this nonsense bit of convoluted torture porn soap opera. I fell in love with the series as a needlessly […]
In The Flesh might be the most underrated zombie show ever made. Which, alright, might sound like a decidedly niche comment to make. We’re not exactly being bowled over by hordes of the undead of TV – outside The Walking Dead and a few aborted attempts at an expanded universe, zombie shows have often been […]
In the last couple of months, I’ve been delving into some classic British anthology horror television – from the highs of Late Night Horror to the, uh, less highs of Urban Gothic, I’ve had the itch for UK TV horror of yesteryear that only a good old anthology can scratch. All this to say that […]
Do you know what the world of action-thrillers have really been missing? No, not gunfights, or gritty international espionage, or someone leaning seriously over a laptop saying enhance. What they’re really crying out for is a good, solid bit of platonic female friendship. Which is, luckily enough, exactly where Ride or Die comes in. Created […]
Forbidden Fruits is Subversive Capitalist Critique (And Also A Really Good Time)
Movie Review: The Odyssey
I have to admit – I’m starting to feel some type of way about female rage fiction. Over the last few years, there has been this move towards the marketing of certain projects as “female rage” pieces – books, movies, TV shows, all tagged under this broad spectrum of anger that springs from the unique […]
Movie Review: Evil Dead Burn
Please note this article will contain explicit discussion of drug and alcohol abuse. In Phoenix, Arizona, on the evening of 11th January 2003, Brandon Carl Vedas sat down in his bedroom, switched on his webcam, and livestreamed his own fatal overdose. The night started like any other for Vedas, then 21; at around 4pm, with […]
So, a few days ago, we got a look at the first stills from Mike Flanagan’s upcoming series adapting Stephen King’s Carrie. And, amongst those, of course, was Carrie herself, as played by Summer H. Howell: Now, I’ve deep-dived the book in more detail than anyone ever asked for, so this is a matter that’s […]