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: 3.5★
The most surprising thing about Bride of Frankenstein is how much heart it has. I turned up expecting a lurching-monster picture, a 1935 horror sequel picking up exactly where the original left off, more of the same gothic atmosphere and pitchfork-wielding villagers. What James Whale actually delivers is
Rating: 3.0★
What if the killer was not a masked slasher with a grudge, not a monster from some shadowy mythology, but Death itself? That was the question Final Destination turned up with in 2000, and credit where it is due: nobody had really asked it quite like that before. The setup
Rating: 3.5★
The scariest thing in Pulse is almost never the thing you are actually looking at. That is the film's central trick, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa pulls it off with a quiet, devastating patience that most horror directors would struggle to match even once, let alone sustain across a full
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Let me say something that might ruffle a few feathers: the original Night of the Living Dead is a landmark. It's brilliant, politically charged, genuinely groundbreaking. George Romero made something that changed horror forever. But if we're being honest with each other, and I think we
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There's a moment watching The Crazies when you think: right, this is actually pretty decent. It moves well, it's got genuine menace, and it taps into something properly unsettling about ordinary people turning feral and the institutions meant to protect you becoming the threat. And then
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There's a really compelling film buried somewhere inside The Hunt, and the frustrating thing is you can see it trying to claw its way out. The premise is genuinely sharp: a group of strangers wake up in a field and quickly realise they're being hunted for
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There's a moment watching King Kong when you have to stop and remind yourself: they made this in 1933. No computers. No CGI. No motion capture. Just ingenuity, patience, and craftsmanship that, frankly, puts plenty of modern blockbusters to shame in terms of sheer ambition. I came away
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There's a moment in The Thing where you realise you've been holding your breath. Not because something jumped out at you, not because of a sudden crash on the soundtrack, but because John Carpenter has spent the last hour quietly, patiently winding the tension so tight
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Let me tell you something that genuinely messed with my head the first time I watched this. I came to Friday the 13th as a teenager already knowing Jason Voorhees. I knew the hockey mask, the machete, the lumbering gait. I'd seen Freddy vs. Jason. I thought I
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The American Dream isn't dead. It just reanimated, shuffled through the automatic doors, and made itself at home in the nearest shopping mall. That image, a horde of the undead mindlessly drifting between shop fronts, escalators, and fountain displays, is so perfectly, savagely funny that it almost hurts.
Rating: 1.5★
Blame the algorithm. Tina Romero's Queens of the Dead had just finished, I was already in a zombie mood with my critical faculties suitably loosened, and before I'd even reached for the remote the next thing had started playing. That next thing was The Video Dead,
Rating: 3.5★
The question at the heart of Saint Maud is a wonderfully simple, unnerving one: is this young woman a saint in the making, or is she quietly losing her mind? That single ambiguity, held carefully and never cheaply resolved, is what makes Rose Glass's debut such a compulsive
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