3 d. ago Rocky Horror creator Richard O’Brien: ‘The Spice Girls couldn’t sing. But lovely girls’

The actor, writer and musician on growing up on a sheep farm in New Zealand, being in Spice World and a lovely afternoon with Aretha FranklinGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailStrange Journey: The Story Of Rocky Horror is out to celebrate 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. What’s the strangest journey Rocky Horror has taken you on?I was at the 30th anniversary at Queen’s Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue. After the show, I was in the downstairs bar, chatting to a couple of people. I turned around and going up the stairs was a man in such high heels – these fetish shoes – that he couldn’t walk in them. He had a leather thong up his arse, and I thought to myself: “I suppose I’m responsible for that, aren’t I?”Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'Unsettling' horror film that has viewers 'transfixed' on TV tonight

Your movie night is about to get a lot creepier as this 'transfixing' A24 horror film appears on screens tonight.

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7 d. ago Bone Lake review – holiday rental house of horror is fun for everyone

You don’t need to be a fright flick aficionado to enjoy this smart and witty tale of a romantic weekend break going gruesomely wrongIt is certainly unusual to see in closeup an arrow fired into a naked scrotum before the title of a film has even been shown, but this is that rare film. The scrotum in question belongs to a man fleeing unclothed through the woods from an unseen assailant, together with an equally naked female companion who also comes swiftly to a sticky end. As opening salvoes go, it hits the spot, as it were.Then the film proper begins. A couple arrive at a bougie rental home only to find themselves facing the ultimate millennial nightmare: you’ve shelled out your hand-earned cash on a place for the weekend but find another couple have also booked it. This is the problem of listings on multiple platforms! Or is something more sinister going on? (If the ballsack shish kebab didn’t tip you off, another clue lies in the fact that the movie is called Bone Lake, not Airbnb...

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8 d. ago Kit Harington admits playing Game of Thrones sister Sophie Turner’s lover in new film ‘felt very odd’

The pair who played Stark siblings in ‘Game of Thrones’ star as lovers in upcoming Gothic horror film ‘The Dreadful’

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8 d. ago Hollywood film legend ravaged by bull in a horror attack on his own farm

The man died at 80- after serving in World War Two and starring in Hollywood films, including True Grit alongside legend John Wayne

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1 week ago Keeper review – romance goes to hell in effectively eerie horror

Longlegs director Osgood Perkins takes us on a dark journey to the woods in a creepy and visually inventive nightmare with a killer lead performanceFor the past few years, horror cinema has sometimes felt as fraught with toxic romance as a particularly cursed dating app. From manipulated meet-cutes (Fresh; Companion) to long-term codependence (Together) to the occasional success story (Heart Eyes), it’s clear that romantic relationships are mostly blood-stained hell, and a couple going to a secluded location together is a fresh level of it.So it’s not surprising when Liz (Tatiana Maslany) starts to feel uneasy on her weekend away with Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) early on in the new and much-concealed horror movie Keeper. Liz and Malcolm have been together for about a year, which we gather early on has marked the time Liz has bolted from past relationships. Still, she seems optimistic about this one. She thinks she knows Malcolm pretty well, and their early scenes together are neithe...

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1 week ago Nicolas Cage's 'The Carpenter's Son' turns an apocryphal text about Jesus' youth into a horror film

Filmmaker Lotfy Nathan has turned the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas into a supernatural thriller called “The Carpenter’s Son,” starring Nicolas Cage

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1 week ago Portishead’s Geoff Barrow: ‘I can’t think of any worse music to make love to than ours’

As he moves into film production with the thriller Game, the musician – also known for Beak> – answers your questions on Myspace rappers, Bristol greats and whether Portishead will ever make new musicWhat made you decide to make a film, Game, and can you tell us a little bit about it? Zoe2025As I’ve grown older, I’ve found myself having more film ideas than musical ones. Having an independent label, Invada Records, I wondered if I could actually make a film. I was at school with [co-writer and actor] Marc Bessant, I’ve worked with [director] John Minton for 20 years and I met [co-writer] Rob Williams – a scriptwriter for Judge Dredd and stuff – when he moved to Portishead [Somerset]. The idea of someone trapped in an upside down car comes from JG Ballard’s Concrete Island. Initially it was gonna be a horror film where the character was attacked by rabid dogs, but instead we set it during the end of rave culture. I immediately thought of Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods for the...

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1 week ago Backlash and body horror: The story of Alpha, the most misunderstood film of the year

The acclaimed French director behind icky masterpieces ‘Raw’ and ‘Titane’ shocked festival audiences this summer by returning with an emotional drama about death and illness. But the initial response was silly, argues Sophie Monks Kaufman, who chats with filmmaker Julia Ducournau and star Tahar Rahim

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1 week ago 'Disturbing' horror film is 'frighteningly real' and on ITV tonight

Starring Christian Bale, viewers can tune into ITV 4 at 10pm tonight for a 'disturbing' horror film that has five star reviews and declared to be 'frighteningly real'

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1 week ago Boos, backlash and body horror: The story of Alpha, the most misunderstood film of the year

The acclaimed French director behind icky masterpieces ‘Raw’ and ‘Titane’ shocked festival audiences this summer by returning with an emotional drama about death and illness. But the initial response was silly, argues Sophie Monks Kaufman, who chats with filmmaker Julia Ducournau and star Tahar Rahim

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1 week ago Nicolas Cage biblical horror film The Carpenter's Son blasted as 'dreary' and 'misguided' in first reviews

The reviews are in, and critics are saying Nicolas Cage has another stinker on his hands with his latest film, The Carpenter's Son.

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2 w. ago ‘A Ukrainian witch kicks the crap out of Russian soldiers’: the new wave of horror films taking on Putin’s army

Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine. But why seek out horror on screen if you have so much of it in real life?When Ukrainian horror movie The Witch: Revenge started filming in late 2023, the costumes for the Russian soldiers were sourced straight from the battlefield. “They were real Russian uniforms. The captured soldiers or the dead soldiers, they just took those uniforms and cleaned them, and we used them,” the film’s producer, Iryna Kostyuk, says, speaking from Kyiv. Having cleaned the uniforms, the film-makers then had to dirty them up again so they looked suitably lived-in. Some of the vests still had names written in them – and several had names crossed out, presumably because Russian soldiers had filched them themselves from fallen comrades. “It was quite a challenge for the [Ukrainian] actors to wear them,” the producer says.The movie, also known as The Konotop Witch, is about a witch...

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2 w. ago 'Amazing' new horror film that made fans 'scared of water' is now on Netflix

The 2024 film has been praised by legendary horror writer Stephen King and features a BAFTA winner.

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2 w. ago 'Epic' war film starring 'best ever actor' and boasting 100 per cent rating on BBC today

Fans of classic WWII movies should not miss this absolute classic of the genre, which stars the great Richard Burton

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2 w. ago 'Sadistic' and 'gruesome' film with top rating that's free to stream

The horror film has the highest rating in the series and is a good choice for true fans of the genre.

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2 w. ago Inside Kate and William's forever home: Princess is kitting out Forest Lodge in her preferred 'classic contemporary style' to create a 'lovely but absolutely inoffensive' look

The Wales family recently vacated their four-bedroom Adelaide Cottage for pastures new in the Grade II-listed Forest Lodge in Windsor Great Park, which has double the amount of space.

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3 w. ago 'Genuinely scary' movie horror fans 'should not miss' is on TV tonight

The supernatural horror film that acts as a sequel to a 1992 cult classic is available to watch on TV tonight as the Halloween blues settle in.

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3 w. ago Police officer stabbed in her face like ‘a Scream horror film’ scene

Declan Diedrick, 25, will be sentenced in December

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3 w. ago Grisly horror film dubbed 'best ever' is free to watch tonight

Horror fans will not want to miss this 'terrifying' film guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat

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