The Gore Connoisseurs

The It of It Follows   takes several different forms, and we're told early on it could appear as "someone you know or a stranger in a crowd". If you pay close attention, it seems like each form is chosen specifically to mess with Jay (Maika Monroe) , acting as a manifestation of subconscious anxieties. Director David Robert Mitchell explained to Vulture that when choosing the form of It - often referred to as The Entity - he "tried to just think about what was troubling to me in each of those situations". Mitchell noted in the same interview that many of the forms The Entity takes are more significant than we realise - it's just too far away to properly register for most viewers. Bearing this in mind, I've listed all of the main forms The Entity takes and teased out how they're significant to Jay's mental state at that point in the film. #1 - Naked woman in the car park (Ruby Harris) There's some debate over who thi...

Since the protagonists of your average horror movie are teenagers, it's not such a surprise that one of the genre's set pieces has become the classroom scene. From Halloween to Hereditary , we unpick four of the most memorable. Horror filmmakers often use classroom scenes to unpack the themes of their movies, allowing viewers to make metaphorical links between the film's villain and more abstract concepts like destiny and existential dread.  Teenagers in horror films can find themselves drifting off as their teacher waxes lyrical about Hamlet one minute, only to be rudely awakened by masked serial killers and demonic old ladies the next. If you thought you had painful memories of your schooldays, check out what these guys had to go through. Halloween (1978) - Laurie has a date with destiny What's going down? Studious Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) is distracted from her English class by Michael Myers watching her at the window with murder on his mind. ...

With spooky season just around the corner, there can only be one film to celebrate the festivities. It's time to head back to Haddonfield to celebrate and get roaringly drunk in the process. Halloween is chock full of slasher tropes, so there's plenty of fodder for a catastrophic drinking game. And because it would be irresponsible to give you a drinking game without testing it ourselves, travel blogger Sophia Moss and I trialed it for health and safety reasons. You can see the full story of how it went  here . So grab a bottle of wine and a bottle of your favourite spirit, check the news to make sure no crazed killers have escaped your local psychiatric hospital, and whatever you do don't have sex. And for God's sake listen to Dr Loomis. Drink a finger of wine/beer if... The  Halloween  theme music plays We're a big fan of John Carpenter's jazzy synth music, and it's great that the director's multi-talented. But don't you thi...

Hereditary 's Twitter account is a constant source of entertainment for me. In the run up to the movie's cinematic release, they've been retweeting the visceral reactions some cinemagoers have been having to the film – from audible screaming to under-the-breath chains of expletives.  Hardened horror fan that I am, I only jumped once when I finally saw the movie. It was scary yes, and expertly made, but there comes a point when horror films don't work the way they used to. I used to be petrified during relatively tame outings like Insidious and The Cabin in the Woods. Now I can watch  Ringu with barely a shudder. There are times, however, when the adrenaline truly started to pump during a horror flick. For those who, like me, are tired of the hyperbolic "will haunt your every waking moment" tosh you get on horror film posters, these pulse-raising moments from classic and modern horror films might actually do it for you. When a tall man breaks into y...