The zombie keeps the score
Reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk, I realised I might finally have found a way of explaining what The Splits is about.
Read MoreHorror film binge
When my husband went away for three weeks dayum I was relieved. Finally… FINALLY … a sweet 21-day binge on horror films. Here are the highlights.
Read MoreTitle Fright: The Babadook v Under the Shadow
The Babadook and Under the Shadow are uncannily similar films. But which is better?
Read MoreTitle Fright : Train to Busan v 28 Weeks later
I want to zoom in on the transformation of the father into a zombie…
Read MoreCoronavirus - will we see a better world?
In The Splits there’s no root and branch transformation. I hope this will not be the case after coronavirus. I hope we see real change.
Read MoreGuts Reaction - The Outsider
I don’t actually believe in the supernatural, but I believe in what it stood for in this show…
Read MoreGuts Reaction – The Joker
Not everybody will see Arthur Fleck as vulnerable because not everybody has the luxury. Some of us have experienced nastier versions of him…
Read MoreMentalisation - a boring name for a beautiful idea
What would it be like if you couldn’t understand the minds of others?
Read MoreGuts Reaction - The Hole in the Ground
As a fan of The Babadook, I’ve always got room for another exploration of mother-child relationships through horror…
Read MoreOn Reading about Prostitution
The working title of the next novel in The Splits Archive is Zombies in a Brothel …
Read MoreGuts Reaction - Eyes of My Mother
Now I HATE torture porn, but I loved this film. What gives?
Read MoreOn Being a Clive Barker Virgin
If loving horror is an orientation, I’ve only just come out of the closet…
Read MoreTitle Fright - Hellraiser vs Candyman
Clive Barker is a specialist subject and I'm no expert, but these to films are dear to my heart and I had to go there.
Read MoreSick notes
My ear was recently grabbed by a radio show on how diseases get their names…
Read MoreGuts Reaction: It
I didn’t see how there could be anything good about this, but it’s lovely to be wrong.
Read MoreGuts Reaction: Personal Shopper
Slow and mournful but also way scarier than most horror films…
Read MoreGuts Reaction: Creep 2
Renews the dynamic and results in a film that is just as riveting as the original, if not more so…
Read MoreGuts Reaction: Bucking Hell
A short film about three men stuck on a sinking ship, with only one life-jacket… I wanted it to be longer.
Read MoreDead Corpse by Nuzo Onoh
One hell of a story, about three generations of medicine-women who battle with the evil in gods, men and in themselves to find happiness.
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