Half beast, half man, all wild entertainment – the oddest of the video nasties is an experience to savour.

Half beast, half man, all wild entertainment – the oddest of the video nasties is an experience to savour.
Occhiali Neri has been hailed as Argento’s great comeback movie – but is it too little, too late from a director whose artistic visions seem long exhausted?
Revisiting the classic 1939 version of the much-filmed murder-mystery story.
The Universal monster cycle – and the series of films starring their only original creation, the Gill Man – ends with a whimper rather than a bang.
Witty, savage and tragic – Vincent Price as a tormented Shakespearian actor in possibly the finest British horror film of the 1970s.
Melissa Todd takes part in a low-budget horror movie production and lives to tell the tale.
Everything wrong with the modern horror movie explained.
Setting the scene for our month of Film Noir reviews – and explaining why we are refusing to take a narrow view of just what ‘noir’ is.
Examining a collection of Shudder Originals while pondering how the streaming revolution feels more like a return to the norm than a giant leap forward.
Continuing our Halloween month of Hammer Horror with their often-misunderstood take on the Countess Bathory legend.
The often-derided 1973 two-part TV adaptation of the classic story is more interesting than critics give it credit for.
The sinister and creepy 1976 home movie from the man behind The Wrong Trousers.