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 don't know how Orphan slipped my attention for so long - it was released way back in 2009 - but the other night I finally got around to sitting down and watching it. Usually I'm quite good when it comes to figuring out what's going out in psychological horror movies, but Orphan had me… Continue reading Wyrd Watching : Orphan
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
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 