Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most adapted novels to screen and it serves as the inspiration for the horror film Alice in Terrorland. Alice (Lizzy Willis) is a teenage girl who moves in with her grandmother (Rula Lenska) after her parents die in a house fire. Alice’s grandmother tells the […]
Tag: Horror Movie
MaXXXine Review
Ti West’s X Trilogy comes to a close with MaXXXine and takes the series to a new genre and location. Six years after the events of X, Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) attempts to transition from pornography to professional acting. Maxine has her big break when she’s cast in the horror movie Puritan II, but this is put in jeopardy when a […]
A Quiet Place: Day One Review
The Quiet Place series sees a change of personnel in front of and behind the cinema with the New York set prequel A Quiet Place: Day One. Sam (Lupita Nyong’o) is a hospice patient who is tricked into going on a day trip to New York. She hopes to go to her favourite pizza place before she dies. […]
The Watchers Review
The Watchers is a supernatural horror film based on a novel by A. M. Shine and serves as the feature film debut for Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night Shyamalan. Mina (Dakota Fanning) is an American woman working in a pet shop in Galway. She’s tasked to deliver a golden parrot to a zoo in […]
Sting Review
Sting is an Australian horror film that shows one of that nation’s most notorious animals terrorising an apartment building in Brooklyn. During a massive blizzard an alien spider crash lands in Brooklyn. Charlotte (Alyla Browne), a young girl and aspiring comic book writer who finds the spider, names her Sting and keeps her as a pet. […]
Tarot Review
The world of Tarot card reading and fortune telling serves as the subject matter for Tarot, an adaptation of the horror Horrorscope. A group of college friends spend a weekend in the mansion in the Catskill Mountains to celebrate Elise’s (Larsen Thompson) birthday. Whilst up there the group discovers a special deck of hand-drawn tarot cards and they […]
The First Omen Review
The Omen series has been given the prequel treatment with The First Omen. This prequel takes the series in a new direction by being a Nunsploitation film. Margaret Daino (Nell Tiger Free) is a young American woman who arrives in Rome in 1971. Margaret plans to take the vows to become a nun and works in an […]
Immaculate Review
Immaculate is a religious horror film that sees its star, Sydney Sweeney, work as a producer. Sister Cecilia (Sweeney) is a young American nun who believes she is meant to serve God after surviving a near-death experience as a child. She travels to Italy to serve in a convent that cares for nuns nearing the end […]
Imaginary Review
Blumhouse, the stable of modern-day horror, uses the world of imagination and imaginary friends with Imaginary. Jessica (DeWanda Wilde) is a children’s book author and artist who moves into her childhood home with her rock star husband, Max (Tom Payne), and stepdaughters Taylor (Taegen Burns) and Alice (Pyper Braun). Little Alice develops a friendship with […]
Out of Darkness Review
Out of Darkness is a pre-historic survival-horror film that has played well on the festival circuit. It now has a chance to reach wider audiences thanks to Signature Entertainment in the UK and Ireland. 45,000 years ago a ragtag band of humans arrived in a new land. Despite the promises of a bountiful land by their […]