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Tom Atkinson

Tom is one of the editors at Love Horror. He has been watching horror for a worryingly long time, starting on the Universal Monsters and progressing through the Carpenter classics. He has a soft-spot for eighties horror.More

Monsters

Boogeyman (2005)

The boogeyman is essentially an American ‘monster’. Whereas spooky closets and dark under-bed areas are filled with all sorts of random creatures and dangers for British children, in the US, the boogeyman is the main Read More

Infection

Isolation (2005)

Do you find cows scary? Or, put another way, how do you think you could ever make a cow seem scary? Red eyes? Vampire teeth? Bolts in its neck, ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ style? None of Read More

Psychological

Saw IV (2007)

Wait a minute. How can there be a fourth one when Jigsaw is dead?! That’s what I thought anyway. Obviously though, I was proved wrong, as they managed to take this twisted series of Read More