25 nominations for the most horrifying scenes in non-horror movies.
When you sit down to a horror film, you know, at least on a basic level, what you’re getting into. Whether or not the movie delivers, what you’ve been promised, and what you’re braced for or looking forward to, are scares. Which is why, when [...]

Paranormal Activity director and writer Oren Peli says the film has stopped viewers from sleeping, and has compared his low-budget horror flick with the likes of Jaws – people were frightened of swimming in the ocean – and the Blair Witch Project, which put people off camping.
Fans speak proudly of not being able to [...]

In conjunction with Pop Culture I have five in-season double passes to giveaway to Danish film director and screenwriter Lars Von Trier’s new horror flick Antichrist, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, which opens on Thursday 26 November 2009.
A grieving couple retreat to Eden, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair [...]

Rather long – but interesting – account of the life of nineteenth century American horror and crime writer Edgar Allan Poe, who was certainly not someone to take his readers for granted…
You love Poe or you don’t, but, either way, Poe doesn’t love you. A writer more condescending to more adoring readers would be hard [...]

The prospect, no matter how remote, that a space probe launched from Earth may “contaminate” another planet with Earthly microbes, is concerning some scientists, especially once technology allowing unmanned spacecraft to travel to nearby star systems is developed.
However far in the future such technologies may be, it is worth thinking about the potential problem of [...]

Cloverfield.
John Molloy writes about Cloverfield at Lost At E Minor.
A new kind of monster movie for our times, Cloverfield delivered a solid 75 minutes of cinema that I couldn’t take my eyes off of.

As a word of warning I am told that Cloverfield is not for those who are prone to motion sickness.