Category: October Horror Movie Challenge

By Scott Dorward Terror Train (USA, 1980) Stephen Graham Jones’s excellent novel My Heart is a Chainsaw recently made me realise how few slasher films I’ve actually seen. The home video boom of the early…

By Scott Dorward The Old Ways (USA, 2020) Every time I undertake the October Horror Movie Challenge, I like to pick a few films pretty much at random. All I really knew about The Old…

By Scott Dorward Raw (France, 2016) Back when we discussed Martyrs on the podcast, we touched upon the New French Extremity movement. This was a lively period in French cinema when a disparate group of…

By Scott Dorward Dave Made a Maze (USA, 2017) “Did she die or did she just turn into a craft project?” I am a sucker for stories that take an absurd premise to extremes. Almost…

By Scott Dorward The Eyes of My Mother (USA, 2016) The Eyes of My Mother is another film I’ve been meaning to watch for some time. I recently saw director Nicolas Pesce’s adaptation of Piercing,…