Halloween Film Favourites...Everyone has their favourite films to watch at this time of the year and our group at Haddonfieldhorror.com is no different. Below are just some of our favourite films watch during the Halloween season. Let us know what is your favourite!Lisa Fremont - @lcfremont - VampyrFor me, it isn’t really Halloween until I’ve watched Vampyr.... Continue Reading →
In Dreams: Remembering Wes Craven
@Ventspleen2014 pays tribute..."1,2 Freddy's coming for you" With the sad news that Wes Craven has passed away, David Martin pays tribute to a horror maestro that never forgot his fans...Wes Craven was one of a kind and we will never ever see his like again. No one in the horror community would argue with this... Continue Reading →
My 4 favourite hillbilly horror films
Top 4 list... Ah the hillbilly, the redneck, the backwoods mutants, the bigoted townsfolk - they all have a special place in the horror world. On this 43rd anniversary of Deliverance what better time is there to bust out this list. There will be literally hundreds of films that didn't make the cut but when you're making a top 4... Continue Reading →
RIP: The Following
@HellingsOnFilm bids adieu and eulogises The Following...Goodbye The Following. After three seasons, the network has done to you what Joe Carroll could never find it in his heart to do to Ryan Hardy: killed you dead.Sure, it was a plot that was probably only good for one season at best. Sure Season 2 lost that plot... Continue Reading →
Despite The Gods: I want to hug Jennifer Lynch
@fkmuse takes a look at Despite The Gods...My name is Lacie Grayson and I want to hug Jennifer Lynch. As a woman who is in a creative field I empathized with Ms. Lynch. Despite The Gods is a documentary about the making of Hissss.(Which was not it's original title!) This is a documentary that is well worth watching... Continue Reading →
How I Got Into Horror (or how horror got into me)
@HellingsOnFilm recounts how horror reeled him in...Once upon a time, way back when, in a time that the BBC was still good, they used to show the late night Horror Double Bill on a Saturday evening (tucked away on BBC2 so as not to offend the blue rinse, conservative audiences of the main channel, most of... Continue Reading →
How Can You Watch That Stuff?
@lcfremont lets us in on what shaped her horror leanings...This is a question that I am often asked; apparently, it's somewhat strange for an adult woman to enjoy horror. It's a long held misconception that men are the primary horror movie audience. In actuality, it's usually women driving the ticket sales. Some believe that males... Continue Reading →
How Horror Picked Me
@TigersMS78 tells of how horror picked him...I can’t pinpoint exactly what it was that drew me toward horror. When I was very young maybe six years old the film E.T scared the absolute crap out of me and gave me nightmares for years. Then there was a children's book in my room with a poem about... Continue Reading →
Who’s That Final Girl? – Oculus
@fkmuse plays Who's That Final Girl - Oculus edition...For this instalment of Who's That Final Girl? we're taking a look at Oculus, a movie staring Karen Gillan, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane, and one jacked-up Possessed Mirror. With a cast like that, you have toexpect some nerdy, pop culture references. Fortunately, this isn't one of those... Continue Reading →
Remake the Remake: Mommy! The TV People Are Here … Again.
In his first article for the site, Romeo Kennedy moves away from the light and towards the remake...We all know that one of the greatest crimes to horror films was the 2003 slasher flick, Freddy V.S Jason. But, my friends, there is another crime that is being committed against all types of film again, and... Continue Reading →
Let’s dance (in your blood)…
@TigersMS78 doesn't dance and after watching this can you blame him?...Dance is often under used to express horror and shock (normally the horror is in watching drunk uncle Wally at a wedding reception trying his best to emulate Justin Timberlake - horrific enough I know) or alternatively it can be used to creep us the hell out. Here we... Continue Reading →
Hate Crime Banned: A Response From The BBFC (Of Sorts)
Here at Haddonfield we are nothing if not fair and felt that the BBFC deserved a opportunity to respond to my article. I emailed the press liason, including the link, and also telephoned to make sure they knew it was there...Here is the body of the email and the response I received:I would love you... Continue Reading →
Censoring The Censors. Why Hate Crime Must Be Released
David Martin looks at the decision by the BBFC to ban Hate Crime in the UK, why were they wrong to do so?...The decision yesterday by the BBFC to ban Hate Crime has really annoyed me, more than that it as incensed me. Not because I am one of those people that believes that there... Continue Reading →
Remakes Are Not The Enemy
@lcfremont sets about reminding us just why remakes have a place in horror...The remake has become a much maligned beast in the horror world and while this is, mostly, understandable, it's also an unavoidable thing that will continue on. Always and forever. Remakes are an unusual thing in the sense that a film remake is... Continue Reading →
Friday The 13th- A Response
As today is Friday the 13th, David Martin responds to the excellent article written by our illustrious editor Ryan, Jason Voorhees is on the prowl and rightly so...Ryan bravely has outed himself as a Friday The 13th hater in his article, which you can read here. Ryan gives a number of reasons as to why... Continue Reading →
Carrie, Prom Date From Hell
Ren Zelen revisits the original Carrie and uncovers an extremely good reason why Proms are not a good idea...Even as children, most of us have a perverse interest in the gruesome. This is not something new to modern culture, no matter how shocked we might be regarding the explicit nature of current video games and... Continue Reading →
Fairy Tales Celebration Day – The Company of Wolves
TheCultDen are celebrating Fairy Tales today and so Ren Zelen bravely wanders into a very hairy nightmare....Modern British Gothic is often characterised by its portrayal of the extent to which perversity and violence infiltrate the apparently safe spaces of British society, domesticity and culture. Angela Carter’s form of horror is based on the bizarre and... Continue Reading →
Jennifer’s Body – Why The Guilt?
@Emma_Not_Anna finds out there is more to Jennifer's Body than just blood splattered cleavage...Jennifer’s Body is definitely one of my guilty pleasures, yet I often wonder, why the guilt? Perhaps because the box office figures suggest it’s a ‘flop’, grossing just over the films budget of $16,000,000. Still, if we go by that logic, Transformers... Continue Reading →
My Horror Confession
@TigersMS78 opens up a can of worms with his horror confession...From a young age I loved horror. Films, books, games or whatever it may have been but if it was horror you name it, I loved it. I still remember when I was about 10 or 11 years old, getting a book through the school... Continue Reading →
Billie Whitelaw Remembered: June 1932- 21 December 2014
@ventspleen2014 mourns the loss of Billie Whitelaw who died on Sunday at the age of 82.Sad news reached us today that the horror icon, Billie Whitelaw had passed away. For me and many horror fans like me this is especially sad due to Billie's astounding performance as the evil and demonic nanny to Damien in... Continue Reading →