Following on from INJ Culbard’s excellent graphic adaptation of Lovecraft’s ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, SelfMadeHero return to Lovecraft’s work with a selection of seven of his most famous tales, adapted by an excellent line-up of creators.
The stories adapted in this first volume (a second is promised) are those which laid the groundwork for Lovecraft’s [...]

I’ve always had a great fondness for Clive Barker. He’s the same age as my mother, a bit of trivia which always made him seem like the super-cool gay uncle I never had. His work has always sat somewhere between horror and fantasy, while being more humane and creative than 99% of the output in [...]

Watching ‘Missing’ I was unsure of whether it was a coldly scathing portrayal of male violence against women or a tasteless, and for the most part extremely slow, horror film.

It’s beautifully shot, has a great soundtrack and a gripping performance by the lead. However not a film I feel I’ll ever want to watch again…

This is a movie that practically begs you to compare it to things that are a lot better.

Another trailer of interest, this time the teaser for Danny Boyle’s ‘127 Hours’, starring the always-interesting James Franco:

Ouch.
‘127 Hours’ is in cinemas nationwide 5 January 2011.

More from Grimm Up North 2010: ‘13 Hours’, ‘Slice’, ‘Chop’, ‘Primal’ and ‘We Are What We Are’.

Lovecraft’s ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ gets a classy graphic novel adaptation from writer/artist INJ Culbard.

Day Three of Grimm Up North 2010: Evil in the Time of Heroes, The Pack, and Amer.

How can anyone resist a film with the title ‘Dead Hooker in a Trunk’? I certainly couldn’t, and am very pleased I gave in to temptation.

Day Two at the Grimmfest: ‘The Reeds’, ‘Dream Home’ and ‘Alien vs Ninja’.

Day one of Manchester’s ‘Grimmfest’ horror film festival: The Last Man On Earth rescored by Animat, and new Brit-horror ‘Outcast’.

It isn’t just that ‘Burke and Hare’ is bad, although clearly it is.

Comics love arbitrary numbering milestones, and if there’s one advantage of a weekly publication schedule it’s that those big numbers roll around four times as fast as they do for US monthlies.

Oh, thank you Maverick Films for ‘Army of the Dead’. I have to say, having watched it once, I went straight back to the start and watched it all over again, as much from a sense of disbelief at what I’d witnessed as to enjoy the story.

Suitably for a film about faith, I can only recommend this movie based on my own convictions. I believe it’s an entertaining, unnerving and in some respects, challenging film. However the aspects I admired about the film may also be qualities that put other people off from watching it…

You know that a film’s viral marketing is working when worries about its content making you feel sick make you avoid watching it!

‘The Crazies’ is a good example of a modern Hollywood remake of a cult independent movie, in that it’s slicker and more focused than the original, but a lot less interesting.

‘Pulse’ delivers high-quality genre stuff, though exactly which genre is hard to pin down. It’s a medical drama that’s also a dark conspiracy thriller that’s also a chilling supernatural horror show that also dabbles in great gouts of Grand Guignol.

…an excellent day for an exorcism.
With all the other 1970s and 80s horror tropes and films being remade endlessly in the cinema at the moment, the one film/series that has been surprising left alone is the Exorcist saga. With the exception of The Exorcism of Emily Rose in 2005, this is the first collision of [...]

‘Black Sheep’ firmly maintains the Kiwi tradition for making the grungiest, funniest and most physically substantial horror movies in the world today…

It’s clear from the opening of ‘The Toybox’, in which bits of East Anglian folklore are re-enacted in Flash animation, that this is a film which is willingly to be defiantly regional…

Based on the novel by Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising attempts to explain the motivation and origin of the world’s most famous fictional serial killer.

It’s strange but encouraging that the script which was intended to be an ‘X-Files’ episode has grown into a beast of a brand successful enough to give Jason and Freddy a run for their money…

Hollywood’s remake machine spews out another ‘re-imagining’ of a landmark horror tale, this time John Carpenter’s seminal ghost story, surely one of the creepiest films in existence. So why bother?

The icing on the cake of frustratingly watered-down teen-horror productions from our buddies across the pond. One must assume there is a boardroom of execs somewhere who genuinely believe these movies to be pleasing people…

In one of those depressing turns of misfortune only Hollywood can marshal, it’s a real shame the Urban Legend franchise never took off with graceful aptitude…

Let’s face it, the Child’s Play franchise owes a lot to the post-modern stylings of Scream and its copies – the rinse-and-repeat days of the lone doll stalking the same kid to transfer his soul seem like a distant memory…

It is a relief to announce that, yes, George A. Romero still has what it takes. ‘Land of the Dead’ is a worthy sequel to Romero’s three previous zombie movies,while being a great contemporary horror movie in its own right…

Unlike some other recent body count flicks, House of Wax on face value alone has three fundamentally terrifying things going for it: a ghost town, a psycho killer and – shudder – Paris Hilton.

Changes made in the jump from page to screen can sometimes make a major difference to the fundamental direction of the character, and this is the case in ‘Constantine’…

‘To Catch A Virgin Ghost’, showing at London’s Prince Charles Cinema as part of the UK Korean Film Festival 2005, doesn’t so much span the genres as roll over them in a tank.

From the off it’s important to note that anyone who has seen ‘Man Bites Dog’ will have difficulties taking ‘The Last Horror Movie’ seriously as an original construct…

Hellraiser was an odd kind of horror film, but it was an even stranger basis for a franchise. With parts five and six on the way in the US, here’s a DVD collection of the first three instalments to remind us how it all began…

So, who’s better?

There were many raised eyebrows and muffled concerns when Hollywood decided it was going to do a remake of Japanese horror film ‘Ringu’…

This film is best known for marking Michael Caine’s darkest hour and, as bee expert Brad Crane (“of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton.”) it’s pretty dark.

Even by the standards of David Lynch films, Lost Highway is weird. Persistently dreamlike to the point of semi-consciousness, the film drifts through a series of bizarre twists and hypnotic images…

‘Twin Peaks’ remains one of the greatest achievements of US Network television. In its time nothing could touch it for sheer quality, and despite the leap in the standard of Network drama over the decade between ‘Peaks’ and now, there’s still very, very little that even comes close. Not in terms of consistency, not in [...]

The creative partnership of director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland is renewed with ‘28 Days Later…’

I’d rather Jack…

Have you seen this yet? You haven’t? Well, grab a copy and watch it smartish, before somebody gives away the ending.

Ted Bundy was the last movie of this year’s FrightFest, and co-writer/director Matthew Bright, producer Hamish McAlpine and actress Alexa Jago were all on hand to talk about the movie…

Horror film festival the Lupo FrightFest 2002 has scored a number of coups over this Bank Holiday weekend, including the English Premieres of Hideo Nakata’s Dark Water and Matthew Bright’s Ted Bundy…

Hideo Nakata’s most famous film, Ring, managed to make audiences fear those two key amenities of the modern world, the telephone and the television. Now, with Dark Water, Nakata is set to make us scared of our plumbing…

Before you consider going to see this film, think very carefully. Are you sure that you don’t have anything better to do?

So, Jason X represents the collapse of all known culture into a pit of self referential, self-indulgent old nonsense? Maybe, but it’s also cheap, cheerful and vigorously entertaining.

There are two orthodoxies about From Dusk Till Dawn. One – that adhered to by film purists – is that it’s a shambolic bit of nonsense tossed off by Tarantino in his lunch hour and then given to an inferior mate to direct…

Dog Soldiers can be summed up in eight words. “Predator meets The Blair Witch Project, with werewolves”…

It is hard to imagine the same director making two more disparate vampire movies than Cronos and Blade II.