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The Mouse Trap Review: More Cheese Than Chills

The Mouse Trap (2024) is a film I discovered through the pre-menu trailers whilst sitting down to watch Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024), both films being distributed in the UK by Altitude. Whilst this film was clearly intended to capitalise on the recent trend of public domain horror, The Mouse Trap barely engages with its source material, instead being an all-out ’90s slasher throwback that relies mainly on Mickey’s face as a mask and sporadic clips of Steamboat Willie (1928). With its non-linear narrative, an (albeit weak) whodunnit theme, and the trope of horny teens getting slaughtered...

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Movie

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 Blu-ray Review – Worth a Watch?

Have you watched the first Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey movie? Yes? No? Well, it doesn’t actually matter. This review is going to tell you why you should watch the second instalment of the Blood and Honey franchise, why it is better than the previous movie, and why you don’t need to watch the first movie to enjoy this one. The Plot I will answer the last question first. The setup is that Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) has survived the 100 Acre Wood Massacre, as coined by the tabloids in Blood and Honey 2, but more people believe that...

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How to Keep Online Videos Before They’re Removed

We live in an age where more and more culture is technically ‘available’, but only for as long as a platform, rights holder, or billionaire owner decides it should be. That is the problem with trusting huge tech companies to preserve anything. Their priority is not art, history, horror fandom, forgotten documentaries, or half-remembered programmes. Their only priority is profit and control. Whatever keeps the shareholders happy this quarter. The billionaire class are not responsible custodians of culture. They are not librarians nor archivists. They are effectively landlords – and they can change the locks whenever they like. We have...

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Creepers

The Entertainer by Edgar J. Hyde (1999) [Review]

By the late nineties, clowns were to horror what sharks had been to the seventies. The ‘90s saw a surge in killer clowns as a horror staple. Stephen King’s Pennywise (Tim Curry), brought to life in the 1990 IT miniseries, became a defining horror icon. Insane Clown Posse (ICP) pushed clown imagery into hip hop/rap with their controversial “horrorcore” style, sparking parental panic. Demonic Toys (1991) found success on home video and spawned a crossover sequel, Dollman vs. Demonic Toys (1993). Even Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1992–96) introduced the Ghastly Grinner to a generation of gateway horror...

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Novel

Ingest Me by Lesley Camphouse: [Extreme Horror Book Review]

Ingest Me Plot Ingest Me is a nasty little of extreme horror novella about a teenager driven by pure hatred of his family and radicalised by incel forums. In the novel, Tristan is an entitled little goblin who grows to resent women after becoming jealous of his baby sister – the child of his mother’s new ‘Chad’ boyfriend. Because Tristan is extremely brave, he starts secretly mixing pieces of himself into his family’s food: hair, nails, and … other things … You could most likely guess what these things are and be right. If that premise sounds grotesque, that’s because...

Movie

Habit (1995): Grim Addiction Horror and Creep Fest [Review]

Habit premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1995, later receiving a limited theatrical release in 1997. This independent horror film, written and directed by Larry Fessenden, is an allegory of how addiction (and self-destruction) takes hold of a person, using the framework of vampirism. With one week until Valentine’s Day, it makes for an unconventional seasonal watch: a story centred on a relationship between a troubled man and a woman who may—or may not—be a vampire. Rather than romance, Habit offers intimacy as something corrosive. It presents a one-sided relationship that is unstable and difficult to escape. Though...