Men (2022) is the latest instalment from director Alex Garland, known for his two previous films Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018). While the latter two were well received, already considered modern classics for the sci-fi genre, Men has struggled to keep up with mixed reviews and average ratings. While…

The world is full of unanswered questions and mysteries that have lost all hope of ever being solved. Despite all we think we might know, there will always be riddles the solutions to which will keep us guessing until the very end. Some riddles, like how the Bermuda Triangle spirits…

Horror as a genre seems to have endless sub-genres branching off in every direction. Whether it’s in the form of literature, film, music (if you don’t know what I mean by horror in music, check out Penderecki’s Threnody, and you’ll see what I’m talking about) or any other medium, everything…

Wanting, and having, children is surely a great thing. As the title states, kids are, after all, the future, and are absolutely necessary to the continuation of the human race. The vast majority of parents will tell you that there’s no better job than parenting, and don’t get me wrong…

I’m sure that the majority of people who went to university have at least some good memories of the experience. …

By now, several years after the release of his feature film debut, Ari Aster is no doubt a well-known name among horror lovers and general film buffs. While his repertoire is primarily made up of his two most popular titles, Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019), the beautiful cinematography coupled with…

Falling in love with fictional characters is the hallmark of truly good writing. Well-written characters, who jump off the page fully formed, can feel as real to us as our friends and families. …

It’s fair to say that all horror is scary to some degree; scaring is, after all, the point of the genre. And there are endless possibilities to the things that can be used to terrify people, from the obvious, like serial killers and ghosts, to the more abstract, like a…

Trigger warnings: Mental health, suicide It’s okay if you’ve thought about it. Sometimes, against life, it feels like we don’t stand much of a chance. Life, particularly modern life, may be full of things to be thankful for, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t exhausting and relentless at times…