The Gore Connoisseurs

Get Out 's Allison Williams and Dear White People 's Logan Browning star in Netflix's B movie Black Swan about rival cellists. Yet somehow it doesn't quite work. The main problem is a common one for ambitious horror flicks – it tackles dark, very serious themes in a superficial way. Cast your minds back to 2008's Teeth , another film with an interesting subtext that was tonally all over the place. Most people agree Teeth is a black comedy, a body horror twist on a coming of age drama. Yet the plot sees the heroine Dawn repeatedly raped by pretty much every man she meets. 2008's Teeth sees heroine Dawn repeatedly raped... yet it's still a black comedy? True, these men do get their comuppence. Dawn fortunately has a toothed vagina, so it's soon raining severed dicks. But there's something horribly grim about watching repeated scenes of sexual abuse not taken very seriously. The Perfection  needs to treat its characters with mor

Why do movie werewolves always look ridiculous? We've rated ten of the most popular on appearance alone, independent of the quality of the films they appear in. We know – we're so shallow. It's our controversial opinion that there has never been a truly satisfying werewolf design. But there are certainly less bad ones. From towering classics  American Werewolf and Ginger Snaps to less lauded pop culture fare such as Twilight and Harry Potter, we've taken a good long look at some hairy beasties. Here are our findings... Twilight  (2008-2012) –   0/5 The teen saga's treatment of werewolves is arguably even more heinous than its portrayal of vampires. The lycanthropes are fluffy doggos you wouldn't be too put out seeing on a lead in the park. Characters transform at will in a matter of seconds – this is lycanthropy as a superpower and we're not buying it. The Howling  (1981) – 1/5 Not that we enjoy being provocative but...