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Does the new director's cut of I Want to Believe salvage the mess of the original? Let's talk about it!

Well, it’s official: internet horror has gone mainstream.

Oh my God, is that the Venus Flytrap from the opening of Saw II? I can't believe they got her for this!

When it comes to movies of the 1990s, it’s hard to think of many that have had the impact of Jacob’s Ladder.

 Saw was a byword for all the films I was most fascinated by, and most firmly banned from watching: violent, gory, scary, gritty and gross and grimy and grotty.

Maybe I’m biased as a purveyor of the horny arts myself, but I really think erotic horror is an underrated side of the genre.

Saccharine is not just a movie about weight loss – it’s a movie about what that weight loss represents. Well, that, and ghosts. Ghosts, too.

Hey, you remember that period in 2000 when we were calling everything cool “totally jagged”? Yeah, me neither. 

Sunday vibes ✨️

From the very beginning of cinema, we have imagined the possibilities of what lays up there in the stars – and beyond.

On May 13th, 1983, Andy Mould and Peter Dooley arrived expected nothing but a normal day of work. The last thing on their minds was discovering human remains – but, by the day’s end, they would discover a human head buried in the Lindow Moss bog that would go on to irrevocably change the course of a twenty-year-long missing person’s case, despite the fact it was nearly two millennia old.

I’ll answer the questions that I get asked most often about this: yes, I’ve come across pretty much every kink you can think of (including that one. And that one. Yes, really). 

In this era of horror, how exactly do you make something stand out in all the worst ways possible?