Category: Guest Goats
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THE UNKNOWN FOUND FOOTAGE MASTERPIECE: Beware of Lynks Disease! A Look Back at ‘This House Has People In It’ – by Alex Davis
In programming a found footage horror festival, I found myself thinking a lot about my favourites in the field. There are plenty of movies of course – the experience of seeing Blair Witch Project in the cinemas always stuck with me, especially given the coverage of the time leaving questions of whether it was real…
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THE GREATEST GHOST STORY ON FILM?A Retrospective on JA Bayona’s The Orphanage – by Alex Davis
As we come into spooky season, and I turn my attention all things ghost story, I find myself thinking about my favourite examples. And often when we’re asked the question ‘what’s your favourite film’, our responses may vary from one time to the next. It might be partly what we’ve seen recently, or what our…
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Don’t Go Near Strangers with Spider-Like Puppets: A look at Matthew Holness’ Possum (2018)
While the horror movie genre enjoys a huge boom on the other side of the Atlantic, it seems to me that many excellent British horror films get rather overlooked. And maybe that’s because the British style is rather different, something quieter and more psychological – movies like Censor, Saint Maud, Apostle and the criminally underrated…
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Requiem – by John Palisano
Ava must fight an entity locked in on taking out the crew of the Eden, a moon-sized cemetery in space, as it brings back the souls of the dead buried aboard. One such soul is Ava’s lost love, Roland. The spirits of the interred on the Eden haunt those aboard, including a visiting musician is…
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The Five Strangest Horror Films Ever
*Guest post by Alex Davis* Let’s face it – horror as a genre has always been at the cutting edge of cinema, pushing the limits in ways other genres daren’t do. That has resulted in much that has been terrifying, dark, confronting or even flat out sickening. But horror has also gone in directions that…
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TOP 5 INTERNATIONAL FOLK HORROR MOVIES
Guest post by Alex Davis Folk horror continues to enjoy its resurgence into 2025, and while the association with the genre is often British – with roots back to The Wicker Man, Witchfinder General and Blood on Satan’s Claw – the field has certainly spread far beyond the UK. With the return of the Darkness…
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Special Feature: Spring Haunts Event + The TOP 5 Horror Books Set in Yorkshire
Dark bleatings, tribe! In just a few weeks, Spring Haunts will be upon us. For those not in the know, this is an excellent writing event that includes writing and author workshops. More information and ticket links will be a bit further along in this post, but first, let me bring in the ever-spooky and…
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Umbilical – by Teika Marija Smits – Book Review
Contents: Icarus Dreams Death of the Grapevine His Birth The Wife That Never Was Umbilical How to Honour a Beginning Minotaur/Mindtour Delphine as Daedalus The Case of the High Pavement Ghosts Girls’ Night Out ATU334 the Wise Our Lady of Flies The Green Man A Piece of Fabric the Size of a Pin Machina in…
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The Gateway in Apartment 8 – by Chisto Healy – Book Review
Sarah, an Asian-American college student moves into Sunnycrest Apartments because it’s a rare, affordable place. Strange things show up in her closet that don’t belong to her. Stranger still, they seem to come from the past. With the help of her psychiatrist, the girl she’s dating, and the quirky gay boy she met at a…
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South of Heaven – by Erin Louis – Book Review
Kat, a lapsed Catholic and promiscuous stripper, never thought she would get into Heaven. Even as she stands there at the Pearly Gates, she naturally expects to be sent directly to Hell. She picks a fight with St. Peter just for fun, but rules are rules, and Kat makes it into Heaven on a minor…
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