Interview: Natalie Erika James talks Relic and making a personal horror

This weekend sees the debut of Relic, one of the year’s most profound and scary horrors. The debut feature of director Natalie Erika James, it follows Kay (Emily Mortimer) and her daughter, Sam (Bella Heathcote), as they head to their … Read More

Interview: Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart talk Wolfwalkers, Cartoon Saloon and Apple TV+

Say the words “Cartoon Saloon” to any film fan and their ears will prick up. After Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells and The Breadwinner, not to mention Puffin Rock, the Irish studio has established itself as vital, … Read More

Interview: Director and cast of The Deep Ones talk HP Lovecraft

HP Lovecraft’s The Deep Ones is streaming online as part of Grimmfest 2020. For the full festival line-up and how it works, click here

Hot off his 2019 cult hit Exorcism at 60,000 Feet, veteran writer-director Chad Ferris returns to … Read More

Interview: John C Lyons and Dorota Swies talk fracking horror movie Unearth

Unearth is streaming online as part of Grimmfest 2020. For the full festival line-up and how it works, click here

Unearth’s tagline – “a fracking horror movie” — is somewhat misleading. Sure, the film does feature fracking as its central … Read More

Interview: Rob Savage talks Host, filming in lockdown and working with Sam Raimi

Ever since the start of the coronavirus lockdown, there has been talk of what cinema might do in response – not only in terms of reopening theatres or films released straight to digital, but also in terms of filmmaking during … Read More

Interview: Brea Grant talks 12 Hour Shift

Ahead of the FrightFest UK premiere of 12 Hour Shift, director Brea Grant talks about the heroism of nurses and being a child of the 1990s.

12 Hour Shift is a valentine to East Texas and the hospital staff … Read More

Interview: Greg Day on taking FrightFest online for the first time

This week sees FrightFest go online for the first time in its history, taking one of the UK’s biggest horror cinema events into the digital ether in the middle of a global pandemic. (You can see our guide to the … Read More

Interview: Justin Kurzel talks True History of the Kelly Gang

Justin Kurzel isn’t a man to take a project lightly – from Macbeth to Snowtown, his work is distinctive, both in terms of visuals and subject matter. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that the Booker Prize-winning novel True History of … Read More

Interview: Elizabeth Sankey talks Romantic Comedy and forgetting the term “guilty pleasure”

This month saw the premiere of Romantic Comedy, a documentary from Elizabeth Sankey, one half of the pop duo Summer Camp. Part love letter to the genre and part video essay, it’s a fascinating and insightful tour through the humble … Read More

Interview: Robert Glenister and Celia de Wolff talk making ITV’s Isolation Stories under lockdown

As the coronavirus lockdown was instigated across the UK, writer-producer Jeff Pope – head of ITV factual drama – decided to create an immediate response to the new normal. The result was four short films under the umbrella title Isolation … Read More