Category: Horror Films

By Scott Dorward The Dead Center (USA, 2019) “What is it that’s inside of you?” Horror is a broad church, if a profane one. Largely by accident, my choices this month have been dominated by…

By Scott Dorward Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood (USA, 1972) “Does it hurt?” “Only when I laugh! No, seriously, it does hurt.” When I was seven years old, my mother taught me how to make scrambled…

By Scott Dorward The Mortuary Collection (USA, 2019) “Someone commits a sin, they pay a horrible price. Rinse, repeat.” I am a sucker for portmanteau films. For a long time, it’s felt like their day…

By Scott Dorward Evolution (France, 2015) “You know, my mother’s not my mother either.” The only things I knew about Evolution beforehand were that it was French, it involved the sea, and that it was…

By Scott Dorward Satan’s Slaves (Pengabdi Setan) (Indonesia, 2017) “There are only dead people in the cemetery. Dead people are harmless. The dangerous ones are the living.” A few months ago, I watched Joko Anwar‘s…