Shudder UK
First look UK TV review: Creepshow Season 2
April 2, 2021 | David Farnor
Shudder’s horror anthology returns for a confident, entertaining second chapter.Read More
VOD film review: The Night
April 1, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Kourosh Ahari’s disorienting ghost story books a guilt-laden Iranian couple into a hell of mirrors.Read More
VOD film review: The Banishing
March 26, 2021 | Anton Bitel
The forces of fascism, patriarchy and misogyny are ever resurgent in Chris Smith’s ghostly pre-war gothic horror.Read More
VOD film review: Slaxx (2020)
March 18, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Elza Kephart’s hilarious killer jeans horror skewers an exploitative clothing industry with bloodthirsty satire.Read More
VOD film review: Come True
March 15, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Anthony Scott Burns’ beautiful, disturbing, oneiric enigma occupies a liminal space on the edge of sleep.Read More
VOD film review: The Stylist
March 1, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Jill Gevargizian’s superlative psychodrama marries a deranged stylist to her client in a messy union.Read More
Shudder UK film review: The Queen of Black Magic (Ratu Ilmu Hitam)
January 29, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Kimo Stamboel’s slow-build ghost story allegorises a generation struggling to extricate itself from the past.Read More
VOD film review: Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
December 26, 2020 | David Farnor
Director: Alexander O Philippe Cast: William Friedkin Certificate: TBC
What is there left to say about The Exorcist? 47 years on from its debut, William Friedkin’s seminal horror is not only one of the scariest entries in the genre, but … Read More
IK TV review: Creepshow Christmas special (2020)
December 20, 2020 | David Farnor
This enjoyably warped Christmas horror story is knowingly dated – and, in its worst moments, unknowingly so.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Anything for Jackson
December 3, 2020 | Anton Bitel
A kindly old couple raise hell to get their dead grandson back in this dark apocalyptic comedy.Read More
