• What were the Video Nasties?

    Daniel Woods There’s an old adage that the more you try to cover things up the more people aim to seek it out. It’s known as the Streisand effect. There’s perhaps no finer example in British filmic history than the video nasty. Before the public pressure groups and the...
  • Spotlight on Horror: The Arthouse of Horror

    An expressive genre that has been a playground for creatives to place artistic and experimental centrality and emphasis at the forefront of their films, arthouse horror is a subgenre of horror that exists outside the mainstream and typically defies conventionality of clichés and expectations in horror films. Impact's Natalie...
  • Spotlight on Horror: Who is the Final Girl?

    From Laurie Strode to Ellen Ripley, every iconic horror film has its iconic Final Girl. Impact's Dona Deric explores the evolution of the character, and how it has become a trope central to contemporary horror....
  • “Jordan Peele Has Done It Again!” – Film Review: Nope

    Nope is Jordan Peele's highly anticipated third feature film. The inventive and multi-genre film is predominantly located on a horse ranch in California, following the nonchalant OJ Haywood, played by Daniel Kaluuya, and his sister Emerald Haywood, played by Keke Palmer, who believe to be witnesses to extra-terrestrial spacecraft....
  • “THE WACK PHONE” – FILM REVIEW: THE BLACK PHONE

    After jumping ship on Marvel’s Doctor Strange 2, director Scott Derrickson reteams with Ethan Hawke and Blumhouse Productions for a more small-scale horror movie affair. Based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King’s son ‘Joe Hill’, The Black Phone details a small US town plagued...
  • A Horror Lover’s Guide To Halloween Films

    Daria Paterek Halloween is upon us, and what is better to set the mood than watching some PROPER horror movies? If you’re ready to traumatise yourself, distrust everyone around you, and experience many sleepless nights, this list is for you. Midsommar Midsommar is my favourite horror movie- but it’s...
  • “Relatively Unremarkable” – Film Review: A Quiet Place Part II

    A Quiet Place Part II is more of the same; like the first instalment it does what it says on the tin and it does it well, but it's weak overplayed family story won’t satisfy those who aren’t interested in its horror trappings. This series deals with a post-apocalyptic...