Van Diemen’s Land concerns the legend of Alexander Pearce, also know as ‘The Pieman’, an Irish man sent to the penal colony on Tasmania in the 1820s for theft who then escaped and was eventually caught, whereupon it was discovered that he had human bones in his pockets, having survived by eating his fellow escapees.Read More
Artists are often troubled souls. Translating their pain and issues into marvellous artistic forms. Van Gogh was one such example of this type of person. People with troubled minds often find it easy to make the transition to ‘murderer’ or ‘psychopath’, and that could be where some of the rationale for Spiral came from.Read More
It is a mathematical fact that if you add creepy children into any film you increase the fear factor by at least 50 percent. Perhaps it’s the idea of pure innocence corrupted by ultimate evil, maybe it’s our deep rooted terror of being replaced by the younger generation, hell maybe its just their high pitched […]Read More
We, at Love Horror, have been quite fortunate to receive a few tense offerings from the world of home horror entertainment of late. One of which is French spine-chiller, Them (ils). It’s curious. Sometimes you can put on a movie and even as early as the opening credits, you can tell that it’s going to […]Read More
Some horror films are good enough to warrant a sequel or two. But few manage to make it to a fifth, or even sixth installment – unless by that time the releases are low budget ‘straight to DVD’ sequels. Saw is one of the few ideas which has shocked and fascinated us all enough to […]Read More
Art imitates life in Dario Argento’s 1987 masterpiece, Terror at the Opera; a labyrinthine codex of biting self satire, reflexive commentary and eerie meta-tragedies. Featuring a plot which revolves around ‘The Scottish Play’, it also borrows heavily from its themes and, it would seem, the eternal myth that surrounds it. The shoot was notoriously troubled, […]Read More