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Dec 3, 2023

Weird Christmas horror movies: 5 festive gore films to add to your watchlist

Get in the holiday spirit with these 5 weird Christmas horror movies! From killer snowmen to twisted family secrets, this list has it all...

Oct 28, 2023

Crime Through Time Museum: We went to the 'UK's sickest museum'... and it is truly grim

The Crime Through Time Museum is truly sick, and not for the faint of heart or people who are easily shocked.

Feb 22, 2021

Hellraiser Judgment: Rab. C. Nesbitt the Cenobite and paper pushers from hell

With Hellraiser: Judgment, you get to be both the punisher and the punished... well, until you turn this slow but gory film off.

Nov 10, 2020

The Evil (1978): Colonel Sanders is Satan in a $1k white suit

My ongoing mission to watch EVERY strange horror film ever made (pre-1996) took me to an imposing deserted mansion... one where weird...

Nov 6, 2020

The Monster Club: Vincent Price's only vampire movie

Lockdown is keeping us all indoors, but it's still possible to enjoy a wild night out at the Monster Club, an overlooked horror anthology...

Oct 24, 2020

French Horror for Halloween: Top 5

This halloween, go French, go extreme, stay scared...

Jul 15, 2020

I Drink Your Blood / I Eat Your Skin grindhouse double

A boy crouches over the body of a dead dog, his hands trembling as he reaches to touch his still-warm flesh. To an outsider it could be a...

Apr 8, 2020

'Superstar' priest, 83, performs exorcisms in chilling documentary

Franciscan Father Cataldo Migliazzo, 83, is one of Sicily's most notorious exorcists.

Mar 6, 2020

How to visit Viktor Wynd's museum... without leaving home

Sadly, eccentrics, and oddballs are few and far between these days - and political correctness has killed off the 'freak shows'. Until now..

Jan 22, 2020

THE LIGHTHOUSE IS A MACABRE LOVE LETTER TO THE MADNESS OF THE SEA

SPOILER FREE REVIEW: The Lighthouse captures the madness of the sea and those whose love her with haunting performances from Willem Dafoe an

Dec 8, 2019

The Sinister Isles Christmas gift guide 2019: Perfect presents for weirdos and freaks

The most macabre and gruesome gifts for the fiends in your life... from candles to jewellery. Santa we've been really bad this year, SOZ.

Nov 9, 2019

Cryptic clues: The mystery of St. Leonard's Church's 2,000 skeletons

St. Leonard’s is home to the largest and best-preserved collection of ancient human bones in Britain, with 1,022 skulls.

Nov 8, 2019

Carlisle's Warwick Bazaar: they don't make vintage emporiums like this anymore

When I stumbled upon Warwick Bazaar in Carlisle, Cumbria, I had no idea how much I missed a good old fashioned rummage.

Oct 26, 2019

Countdown review: Watered down Final Destination for millennials

Countdown could be an analogy for how our lives are sucked away by technology - but it's not that deep.