Horror Films

Netflix's Fear Street trilogy is a motley of gore and nostalgia as told through an endearing cast of teenage rebels

The Fear Street trilogy on Netflix eschews the doom-and-gloom sobriety of recent horror successes such as Bird Box and A Quiet Place, or the nihilism of The Purge franchise.

Sea Fever to The Beach House, how Lovecraftian horrors are being updated to reflect urgency of climate change perils

Over the last couple of years, there has been an uptick in eco-horror films which have imagined worlds as Lovecraftian mirrors to our own.

Annabelle Comes Home movie review: Excellent performances by the young cast keeps this spin-off afloat

Annabelle Comes Home, the third installment of a franchise that is way better than it has any right to be

Svaha: The Sixth Finger movie review — Korean horror offering is high on ideas but low on execution

Despite its campy title, Svaha: The Sixth Finger starts out to investigate our systems of belief and the power and sense of entitlement they engender. But the richness of its subtext and ideas fails to penetrate the thick layers of narrative that roil above it.

Jordan Peele’s Us as a failed political satire: What the film gets right about America, and what it gets wrong

We read the doppelgängers in Jordan Peele's Us as a reference to the black majority left behind even as elites have emerged successfully as professionals, entertainers and sportspersons. It is the African-American liberal elite to whom the Obama persona appealed and that Peele partly satirised in Get Out.

From Annihilation to Hereditary and Tumbbad: The best horror films of 2018 and the themes they explored

Films like Annihilation, Revenge and Veronica offered differing ways of dealing with the changing world around us; sometimes escapism, often despair, and more often than not, caution

Director Madhesh on upcoming Tamil horror film Mohini: Will not bore public with a forced message

Madhesh talks about working with Trisha in her first dual-role film, physically demanding stunt sequences and why Mohini is a challenging project for him

Ashim Ahluwalia on his short film Palace of Horrors, and what makes for truly frightening cinema

In an interview with Firstpost, director Ashim Ahluwalia talks of all things horror, the challenges posed by the short film format and his latest — Palace of Horrors, from The Field Guide to Evil anthology

Truth or Dare movie review: Everything you don't want in a horror film — cheesy plot, lack of decent scares

Truth or Dare has everything that you don’t want in a horror movie – cheesy plotting, unintentionally hilarious performances, lack of decent scares or gore

No clarity on release of Prabhu Deva-starrer Mercury in Tamil Nadu; TPFC strike continues

The Tamil Film Producers Council (TFPC) has made it clear that Mercury should not release at a time when producers have stopped new releases from 1 March