Spoilers galore for a movie that contains literally everything that is possibly likely to ruin the day of anyone sensitive to, well, you kno...

(Spoilers.) Vivarium , then. I suppose I should start with the plot, which is simple enough. A young couple, primary school teacher Gemma (I...

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh ( Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh ) (1971) The Perfume of the Lady in Black ( Il profumo della signora i...

The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave ( La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba ) (1971); The Black Cat ( Gatto nero ) (1981) ( This is a ...

There is a way to phrase a title that raises an expectation, to tell you about style, tone and content. For example, let's look at th...

No film so nails what it feels like right now, how the past haunts the present, as The Love Witch . No preamble here: there will totally...

One of the theses that I have about the cultural scene right now is that it reflects wider society. I mean, OK, that should be a no-braine...

Today we will be talking about the surpassingly, bizarre Christmas movie Pottersville . We will spoil plot elements of the movie. But we w...

Dylan Dog (Tiziano Sclavi et al , 1986-present) All the Colours of the Dark ( Tutti i colori del buio ) (1972) What Have You Done to So...

Deep Red ( Profondo rosso ) (1975) The House with Laughing Windows ( La casa dalle finestre che ridono ) (1976) It's rare, I suppos...

Don't Torture a Duckling ( Non si sevizia un paperino ) (1972); The Red Queen Kills Seven Times ( La Dama Rossa uccide sette volte ) ...

I found very little written in English about Rasganço (French title Dechirure , English title variously Rending and The Rip ). I mean, in ...

The Gorsedd, Singleton Park, Swansea.  Updated: 6th April 2021 Towards the end of October 2016, I thought, "I know! I've go...

Andrzej Zuławski's Possession is, as you probably know if you've read this blog a bit, my favourite horror film. It's the fil...

Us (2019) It’s what they call a Very Special Episode today. So over the space of a couple of weeks, my old pal and contributor to We Don...

Usually when I write a response to a film, I tend to avoid looking too hard at the technical stuff, things like the specifics of direction...

So. I'm a Bram Stoker Award Nominee. We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror got the nomination for Superior Ach...

When Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel originally reviewed Gremlins , Ebert described the film as a haunting. It haunted the portrayal of Small T...

( Spoilers as ever. But this is a piece of TV that's well over 30 years old, so frankly, who cares? ) One of the things that I'v...

OK, this is epic, this. It's the single most extended piece of criticism yet to appear on this blog, and it's not by me, it comes ...