The Gore Connoisseurs

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...

We've ranked the ten most toxic horror movie relationships via the medium of #couplegoals Instagram posts.  Relationships almost always head south in horror films. The lucky ones just realise they're not meant to be together. The majority end up killing their significant others and/or being horrifically betrayed by them. We're counting down from "less than desirable" to "you two should break up right now". Time to have a peek at the horror movie Instagram feed. 10) David & Alex, An American Werewolf in London (1981) So how did you two meet? He was a backpacker in hospital recovering from a werewolf attack. She was a softly spoken nurse who quickly succumbed to his American charms. The best part of their relationship: They're actually pretty cute together, so long as David isn't a hairy rampaging beast. Any hangups? David's killing sprees had a surprisingly minimal impact on his love life. Alex, loyal until the...

So you've seen Hereditary , were scared silly, and are looking for your next dose of auteur horror. What other films (I hear you ask) have such a unique cinematic vision and are directed with such an attention to detail? The truth is there's no shortage of filmmakers who see themselves as the David Lynch or Quentin Tarantino of horror. Few manage stylised horror with the panache of Ari Aster , yet dig deeper and there's a decent clutch of films where someone has clearly obsessed over their aesthetic. From the artificial, dolls' house quality of Hereditary to 80's throwbacks like It Follows and The Guest , directors use cinematography and soundscapes to create an underlying sense of dread or to just make their films uber stylish and memorable. Yet for those of you who (quite rightly) have already devoured the work of Adam Wingard and David Robert Mitchell , here are the stylised horror films you've yet to discover. Replace Where you s...