The Craft

I love The Craft, but I haven’t actually watched it since the 90s. I was delighted to find it exactly as I remember it – fucking awesome. My clearest memory was of my deep lesbian devotion to goth queen Nancy, played by Fairuza Balk. Tellingly, I had completely forgotten Skeet Ulrich was even in this…

Hellbender

Really interesting micro-budget practically homemade horror. Shot during lockdown by a family in the Appalachian mountains, it is a pared down coming-of-age horror focused on a mother-daughter relationship. Izzy and her mum live alone in the hills. It’s a peaceful and happy existence, surrounded by nature, a warm friendship between the two of them. They…

She Will

Really wanted to see this when it came out, kept arranging with my sister to go, but we kept missing it. So delighted to get another chance to see it. Alice Krige gives the lifeblood performance of this film as Veronica Ghent, an aging actress recovering from breast cancer surgery, who seeks solace in a…

Haxan

Wonderful getting to watch Haxan on the big screen with a specially created score. The classic 1920s silent film examines the witch myth, the mass hysteria of the witch hunt, and its modern explanations of neuroses. In doing so, it births just about every trope of the horror genre to follow. Surprisingly easy watch, given…

The Deathless Woman

The Deathless Woman is a documentary about the persecution of Roma framed around the legend of an undying Roma woman. The unnamed woman was the pregnant wife of the leader of a group of Roma people in Poland during the 40s. When a pig went missing in the nearby village, a local man accused the…