The Gore Connoisseurs

Us is a movie brimming, perhaps overstuffed, with ideas. It's also highly ambiguous. What is the meaning behind the Tethered? We certainly have plenty of theories. Check out our best guesses   below. Warning: There are some pretty hefty spoilers below. Read on at your peril! 1) The enemy within The movie's fantastic ending really hammers home the idea that the thing we really ought to be afraid of is ourselves. During Adelaide and Red's final confrontation, Red reminds her that the Tethered are only humans, with skin and teeth. Cue the big reveal: Adelaide was Tethered all along, and the psychotic Red was the cute little girl we saw lost at the fairground in the film's prologue. Peele has admitted that the movie's message is something along these lines. “We are our own worst enemy," he told The Guardian ,  "not just as individuals but more importantly as a group, as a family, as a society, as a country, as a world." Fol...

Brightburn is one of this year's big budget horror releases – a scary movie reimagining of the Superman story produced by James Gunn. Yet its director cut his teeth on micro-budget 2014 gore-fest The Hive, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime . Director David Yarovesky's debut feature caught Gunn's attention and won him the bug bucks funding he needed to make Brightburn. It's a film that has largely flown under the radar, but what was it that caught Hollywood's attention? The Hive is in some ways a typical story of plague and infestation. A group of camp counsellors slowly succumb to nasty black goo which makes them violent, telepathic and pretty unsightly. The Hive is messy, but unlike many horror films it's certain of its own right to exist in a busy genre landscape Our hero Adam (Gabriel Basso) wakes up infected by the goo and suffering from amnesia. There are warnings scrawled on the wall that there are monsters outside, and Adam starts to rea...