Cinema has spent well over a century working with the horizontal frame, so there is something initially strange about watching a feature film turn itself on its side. Yet that is precisely where Argentine writer and director Sebaztian Baz finds the identity of Sombras Chinas. Shot in a native 9:16 vertical format and constructed around…

There is a moment in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma when faded scream queen Billy Presley attempts to explain what made the fictional Camp Miasma films work in the first place. While young filmmaker Kris Williams is approaching the material through identity, representation, cultural interpretation and enough film theory to make you instinctively…

Low budget horror has always been one of the great training grounds for filmmakers. You don’t necessarily need expensive sets, enormous crews or recognisable stars to make something effective. A house, a few willing actors, some fake blood and a strong idea can sometimes be enough. Give Me Something Good, written and directed by Clay…

There are independent films made with small budgets, and then there are films made with practically nothing at all. Noblestone belongs firmly in the latter category. The 94 minute British independent feature was written, directed, produced, photographed, edited and scored by Albert Goya, who completed the film at just 19 years old after working on…

There are certain names in horror that come with expectations, and Eli Roth is unquestionably one of them. Whatever you think of his films individually, the director behind Cabin Fever, Hostel, Hostel: Part II and, more recently, Thanksgiving has rarely been afraid of blood, guts or pushing practical gore considerably further than most mainstream filmmakers…

There are horror franchises that become increasingly watered down as the sequels pile up. Then there’s Evil Dead, a series that somehow continues to find new ways to horrify audiences over four decades after Sam Raimi first unleashed the Necronomicon upon the world. Evil Dead Burn, directed by Sébastien Vanicek, is the third entry since…

Back in 2000, the original Scary Movie arrived at exactly the right moment. Horror was enjoying a major resurgence thanks to films like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Blair Witch Project, and the Wayans brothers saw an opportunity to poke fun at the genre. The result was crude, juvenile, often…

The journey from internet creepypasta to major motion picture is not one that many creators manage successfully. Kane Parsons, however, has achieved exactly that. Having first gained attention through his hugely popular Backrooms short films on YouTube, the young filmmaker now makes his feature debut with Backrooms, a psychological horror film that remains faithful to…

If you’ve ever sat in silence at night and convinced yourself that the random creaks in your house mean something is watching you, Undertone is about to make that feeling a whole lot worse. Ian Tuason’s horror film takes a very different approach to scares. Instead of throwing masked killers or gallons of blood at…

A group of wannabe internet explorers go looking for hidden millions inside a haunted hotel and instead find a masterclass in terrible decision making in Do Not Enter. There is something inherently stupid about horror films where characters knowingly walk into danger, but Do Not Enter takes that idea, sets it on fire, and then…