Horror has always done its best work at the edges, where unease creeps in before anything jumps out. From the expressionist dread of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Kubrick stretching psychology to breaking point in The Shining, the genre earns serious respect when it treats fear as a way of examining how we actually live. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 1.5★
There are films that disturb you because something terrible happens on screen, and then there are films that disturb you because the director has decided that you, the person sitting in the dark, are the real subject of the exercise. Michael Haneke's Funny Games, made in Austria in
Rating: 3.5★
Short horror films occupy a curious corner of the genre. Freed from the obligation to pad a story to feature length, the best of them can land a single, well-aimed punch and walk away clean. Moshari (2022) is one such film: a Bangladeshi production running to around twenty-two
Rating: 2.5★
There is a long and restless tradition in world cinema of using the horror genre as a vessel for social and political anxieties, particularly around bodies, identity, and the pressures of conformity. From the body-horror provocations of Cronenberg through to the folk-inflected dread of more recent European and
Rating: 1.5★
The original Castle Freak (1995) holds a modest but affectionate place in the annals of low-budget American horror. Directed by Stuart Gordon, the man behind Re-Animator, and produced by the ever-reliable Charles Band at Full Moon Entertainment, it was a grimy, mean-spirited little picture loosely adapted
Rating: 3.0★
There is a particular kind of horror film that earns its chills not from monsters in the traditional sense but from the unsettling suggestion that the world contains systems of belief and power that Western rationalism simply cannot account for. The Serpent and the Rainbow, released in 1988 by Universal
Rating: 3.0★
Folk horror has enjoyed something of a quiet renaissance over the past decade or so, with films trading Gothic excess for a more grounded, elemental dread rooted in landscape, superstition, and community. It is a genre that rewards patience, and one that has proved a surprisingly fertile space for debut
Rating: 2.5★
Argentine horror has a quietly distinguished track record, even if English-speaking audiences have tended to encounter it only in fragments, a festival buzz title here, a streaming recommendation there. Films like Monos demonstrated that Latin American genre cinema can operate on its own terms, with its own rhythms and
Rating: 4.0★
By the early 1930s, Universal Pictures had established itself as the home of the monster movie, and the studio was moving at quite a pace. Frankenstein had arrived in 1931, setting a template for prestige horror that mixed scientific hubris with genuine pathos, and the studio wasted little time in
Rating: 1.0★
Mermaids have had a curious relationship with horror cinema. The creature sits at a crossroads between ancient folklore and monster-movie tradition, and filmmakers have periodically tried to drag it away from the fairy-tale end of the spectrum toward something more threatening. It is a reasonable instinct. Greek mythology,
Rating: 2.0★
The zombie film has always been something of a canvas for social commentary, from George Romero's consumerist malls to the viral-panic anxieties that coursed through the early 2000s wave of fast-infected pictures. By 2025, the genre has been thoroughly charted: audiences know the beats, the archetypes,
Rating: 2.0★
H.P. Lovecraft spent much of his life being ignored, misunderstood, or quietly horrified by the modern world, which makes it fitting that his work has spent the decades since his death being adapted, reinterpreted, and gleefully mangled by filmmakers who clearly adore the source material even when they'
Rating: 3.5★
The figure of Yuki-onna, the snow woman of Japanese folklore, has haunted the country's storytelling tradition for centuries. She appears in woodblock prints, Noh theatre, and countless regional variants of the same essential myth: a female spirit of the winter mountains, beautiful, lethal, and possessed of a
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