In 1986, rookie director John McNaughton was approached by a Chicago home video executive eager to cash in on the low-budget slasher craze, expecting a money-spinning slice of exploitation for his …

I was eight when Blockbuster was at its peak in 2004. I remember the smell of popcorn (not quite the kind you’d get at the cinema, but a cheap and cheerful bagged alternative) just as vividly as the b...

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Is it a bird? It couldn’t be a plane; it’s way too small. Though it did travel from another galaxy. Perhaps it’s an alien, the kind of terrifying practical effects creation that w…

Back in 1988, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t only the premier action star in Hollywood, he was one of the biggest superstars in the entire world. Success came naturally to the industry’s …

Shane Meadows is one of the most neglected filmmakers on the planet. That’s because his movies inhabit a very distinct, everyday underbelly of Great Britain, one that rarely makes it to the s…

Poor Billy Lynch. If Norma Bates had in fact been an oppressive, knife-wielding killer, rather than the oedipal victim of son Norman’s lurid, bloodthirsty fantasies, her name would have been …

By 1989, horror fans, and even Friday the 13th fanatics, were becoming a little weary with Paramount’s most dependable, low-risk franchise. After hijacking the zeitgeist with 1980’s com…

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Matty gives a lil’ sugar to an unfairly maligned horror anthology from the golden age of the DVD premiere.