Isn’t it astonishing the power trees can have over us? How they can fill us with joy, enough that we could burst, or, at the other end of the spectrum, make us feel so damn terrified that we’re hardly able to process our feelings, but know only that we need to get away from said… Continue reading Thinking In The Dark : Trees In Horror Movies
My boyfriend has an undying love for John Carpenter's Halloween, and I can honestly say that I've never met someone so fiery passionate about a movie before - and the time for us to watch it together arrived last night. It felt somewhat ritualistic as he dimmed the lights and I put a candle in… Continue reading Re-watching Halloween
The first half of the 2012 horror Sinister was so fucking rich with solid, nightmarish content - even the soundtrack was blood chilling - that when I went to bed I was genuinely scared to turn the lights off, I mean like I was literally running the few feet from the kitchen to the bedroom.… Continue reading Wyrd Watching : Sinister
I'm a big fan of the work of M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village) so was expecting something memorable from his 2015 horror The Visit. And I wasn't disappointed. This found footage movie about two youngsters who go and visit their maternal grandparents for the first time had me screaming. Actually screaming.… Continue reading Wyrd Watching : The Visit
I don't enjoy going out on Halloween. (Well, I don't like going out and socializing on any other night either...) Nowadays, Halloween is all about how sexed up you can make your costume, and I'm not at all in favour of that. I'd much rather stay inside, with the curtains tightly drawn and watch movies… Continue reading Raise The Horns For Halloween / 6 Must Watch Horror Films
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 