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★
There's a version of This Is Not a Test that really works. You can see it in the opening minutes: running zombies, genuine chaos, a rawness to the staging that feels earned rather than cheap. For a low-budget indie, the early commitment to practical effects and claustrophobic
Rating: 2.0★
Let me be honest with you: I went into Re-Animator expecting to have a great time. Stuart Gordon's 1985 splatter-comedy has one of those reputations that precedes it like a foghorn, all glowing reagents and severed heads and knowing winks at the camera. The kind of
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in The Snow Woman where the frame holds on a vast white landscape, the silence so complete you can almost feel the cold through the screen, and you know immediately that this film is going to do things its own way. Tokuzo Tanaka isn&
1950s
There's something uniquely unnerving about a horror film that doesn't bother with monsters in the traditional sense. No fangs, no slime, no creature lurching out of the dark. Just your neighbour, your wife, your doctor, looking exactly as they always did but with something quietly, irretrievably
1960s
The last fifteen minutes of Viy are something else. A church fills with demons, spectral hands reach through stone walls, a levitating corpse traces slow circles through the dark, and then the creature itself is revealed: an ancient, monstrous thing with eyelids that have to be lifted by its servants
Genre Horror
★★½ — Nightmare City (1980)
Genre Horror
★★★ — The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Genre Science Fiction
★★ — Invaders from Mars (1953)
Genre Science Fiction
★★½ — The Long Walk (2025)
Genre Thriller
★★½ — Angst (1983)
Genre Horror
★★★½ — Carnival of Souls (1962)
Genre Animation
★★★½ — Americana (2023)
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