Author Katy Moon

In 1997, actors Heather Donaghue, Mike Williams, and Josh Leonard ventured into the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland to film a fake documentary about the legend of the Blair Witch. Two years later, their...

If anyone was worried that burgeoning horror auteur Ari Aster was going to mellow out after his disturbing debut, you can sleep easy. Aster’s latest (which shares more than a passing resemblance to...

Since the early days of horror cinema, franchising has had the tendency to dull the sharper edges of our favourite horror icons. Twenty-five years after they emerged from the shadows, Universal’s stable of...

There is a moment in The Conjuring 2 in which Patrick Wilson's ghostbuster Ed Warren, hoping to cheer a group of frightened kids, serenades them all with croony Elvis song 'Can’t Help Falling in Love'. With...

Sometime in the 1990s – thanks to some goofball early roles, a few wobbly performances and the occasional taciturn interview – critics and journalists seemed to latch onto the idea that Keanu Reeves was...

Video games are a rich vein of narrative potential that Hollywood is still struggling to mine. It’s often the case that the mediums just don’t translate – after all, spending a couple of hours merely...

Pairing the director who calls monsters “the patron saints of our blissful imperfection”, and a comic series about a cat-loving, cigar-smoking demon was a match made in heaven. Though Marvel and DC have...

Once upon a time, it seemed like Colin Farrell was primed to be Hollywood’s Next Big Thing. Springing onto the Hollywood scene in the early 2000s, Farrell impressed in Joel Shumacher’s Tigerland, a...

San Dimas, 1988. Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winters) and Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves) don’t know it yet, but they’re destined for greatness. Their band Wyld Stallyns may be awful now, but by...

It’s a dangerous world out there for a film protagonist’s wife. Kidnapped, brutalised, often fridged in favour of the development of their male co-stars, it’s habitually a thankless role that comes with...

Today, it may be a truth universally acknowledged that the internet is Dark and Full of Terrors – but it wasn’t always this way. 20 years ago, Nora Ephron beckoned audiences into a beautiful fantasy world,...

Creating horror remakes is often a thankless job. Taking familiar intellectual properties with built-in audience recognition and repackaging them with a little more sex or violence than the originals were...

It has never been a better time to be a fan of scary movies. With Get Out, A Quiet Place, The Conjuring cinematic universe and the latest Halloween setting the box office alight, it is clear that we're hungry...

This film was previously reviewed on 21/10/2018 as part of London Film Festival. In George Tillman Jr’s defiant The Hate U Give, Amandla Stenberg gives the performance of her young career as Starr, a...

In George Tillman Jr’s defiant The Hate U Give, Amandla Stenberg gives the performance of her young career as Starr, a girl forced to speak out after witnessing a friend’s murder at the hands of a white...