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: 2.0★
The Mummy is one of those properties that refuses to stay buried. From the Universal Monsters era of the 1930s through to the sun-baked, adventure-serial fun of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the franchise has proved remarkably elastic, bending itself to suit whatever the prevailing mood in
Rating: 4.0★
There is a specific kind of dread that the best horror thrillers manage to conjure, not the kind built from a sudden bang on the soundtrack or a face appearing in a mirror, but a slow, creeping certainty that something has gone very wrong and nobody is going to be
Rating: 2.5★
There is a particular flavour of genre film that announces its intentions in the title and then dares you to keep up. They Will Kill You, arriving in 2026 from the production partnership of Nocturna, New Line Cinema, Domain Entertainment and Film Afrika, is very much that kind of picture.
Rating: 2.5★
The Evil Dead franchise occupies a peculiar corner of horror history. Sam Raimi's original 1981 film was a shoestring-budget affair shot in rural Tennessee, equal parts terrifying and accidental slapstick, and it launched careers, spawned a devoted cult following, and essentially wrote the rulebook for a certain
Rating: 3.0★
Horror has always had a habit of finding its most unsettling footing when it roots itself in a very specific place and time. Under the Shadow, released in 2016, does exactly that, setting its supernatural premise inside a Tehran apartment block during the brutal, grinding years of the Iran-Iraq
Rating: 3.0★
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel has had a longer life on screen than almost any other work of fiction. From James Whale's definitive 1931 Universal production through to Kenneth Branagh's sodden, overwrought 1994 version, Frankenstein has been pulled in just about every conceivable direction: camp,
Rating: 3.5★
There is something almost quaint, in the best possible sense, about a horror film that roots its scares in the world of late-night television. By 1977, the American talk show had become a nightly ritual for millions of households, a warm and familiar presence glowing in the corner of
Rating: 2.5★
There is something genuinely bittersweet about the video rental shop as a cultural relic. For anyone who grew up in Britain or Ireland during the 1980s and early 1990s, the local video store was a kind of temple, its back shelves lined with lurid VHS covers promising monsters, mayhem, and
Rating: 2.0★
There is a particular kind of late-1990s Hollywood product that exists somewhere between genuine genre filmmaking and expensive theme-park attraction, and Anaconda (1997) sits squarely in that territory. The film drops a documentary crew into the Amazon rainforest, where they fall under the control of a dangerously obsessive
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
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