Cosy horror for dark nights
Same nightmares. Different stories.
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Worth your evening, or worth an early night? I have sat through it so you do not have to gamble. No spoilers, ever.
Ask ten people for the scariest horror movies they know and half of them will describe a shape in a doorway, not a monster. This is why the empty frame does more damage than the reveal ever could.
26 October 2026 · 1 min read
Everyone's got the thing that gets past their defences, no matter how many horror films they've sat through. Here's mine, and why my brain still falls for it every single time.
24 October 2026 · 1 min read
I turned off a film once, muted, on purpose, just to see if the noise was doing the work my brain thought the story was doing. It was. Here's what actually gets under my skin.
19 October 2026 · 1 min read
Every October the same handful of films come off the shelf, whether I plan it or not. Here's the rewatch pile that gets me properly into spooky season.
17 October 2026 · 1 min read
Erin picks the horror anthology movies she actually rewatches every October, and explains why commitment-free horror is the correct choice for the sofa on a proper Halloween night.
12 October 2026 · 1 min read
Every October the same five Halloween films turn up on every "best of" list, and I have sat through all of them under a blanket with a coffee going cold, wondering why nobody else seems to mind what I mind. Here is my honest ranking, and the ones I'd actually put on instead.
10 October 2026 · 1 min read
Someone in my comments asked, for what felt like the hundredth time, what actually started the slasher genre. So I made the coffee, put on the big jumper and went looking.
5 October 2026 · 1 min read
A second visit can be scarier, stranger or simply more fun. These are the horror follow-ups I’d put ahead of their originals, with one fairly large argument waiting in space.
3 October 2026 · 1 min read
Quiet ghosts, terrible invitations and a church I would absolutely refuse to investigate. These are the horror films I’d put on when the familiar favourites need a night off.
28 September 2026 · 1 min read
People keep asking me what folk horror actually is, so here's the honest answer, plus the four films I'd hand a total beginner.
27 September 2026 · 1 min read
Hammer made horror properly cosy long before I was born, all fog and candlelight and Peter Cushing looking faintly disappointed in everyone. Here's where to start, and where the hunt gets a bit trickier.
27 September 2026 · 1 min read
I keep getting asked which old horror films actually still work, so here's my honest answer: the ones built out of rubber, blood bags and a very patient crew, not the ones built out of pixels. Horror films from the 70s got that right before anyone had a choice.
27 September 2026 · 1 min read
Is your watchlist just "whatever's trending"? Mine's built around anniversaries this year, and it turns out the classic horror films are the ones worth clearing an evening for.
22 September 2026 · 1 min read
Carrie, The Omen, Scream and Nosferatu are all having anniversaries this year, but the order you watch them in on the night matters more than any of the birthdays.
21 September 2026 · 1 min read
People keep asking what I'm actually watching once the nights draw in, so here's the honest list: the films I reach for every year, not the ones I only pretend to have seen.
20 September 2026 · 1 min read
Halloween came out decades before I did, and it still manages to unsettle me more than most horror films made last year. Here's why the original slasher refuses to age.
12 September 2026 · 1 min read
Everyone knows "Here's Johnny" and the twins in the hallway, whether or not they have ever sat through the film itself. I finally did, on a night I probably shouldn't have chosen, and I understand the fuss now.
12 September 2026 · 1 min read
Forty horror films counted down like the charts, from silent classics to new favourites, picked by Erin and sent the moment you join.