100 Horrors

Tonight we explore the extent to which alcohol is an influencing factor on our rating system.  Clive Barker's Nightbreed is a hodgepodge of serial killer who-dun-it cliche, heavy handed Larbythian costume design and some of the quietest whisper acting ever committed to film. After watching this film through the lens of a couple of IPAs, one of us nearly gave this a seven. Is this the wake up call...

Episode 096 - Nosferatu (1922)

Vegans. I can’t help but feel they’re hiding something from us. Yes, they’re right that we as a species contribute to the suffering of animals for culinary gain. They’re also correct when they tell us that the land used to raise these animals is taken directly from land desperately needed for rainforests and that as meat eaters (particularly beef eaters) we’re destroying the planet. What I think t...

If you like your horror films without any of the frightening characters, settings, characters or horrific situations that you might expect in a genre text, then this might be the one for you. In actuality, it's not at all fair to call David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers a horror film at all. Quite why it was listed on the 100 Horrors poster is beyond us. It wasn't fair on the film to make us review it...

Any race has the potential to turn into a death race, but one in which Silvester Stallone races a turbo charged fair ground ride against a Neo-Nazi, a naked lady and man who's sexual deviance will ultimately cost him his life has a higher potential than most. Paul Bartel's Death Race 2000 explores a world in which sport has evolved into knocking down pedestrians for points in a race across the U.S...

This week's film features a group of women taking part in an activity known as "Spelunking", which is the act of exploring small (and often wet) holes. It has an all female cast and is rated a solid 18 by the BBFC. I can't help but feel that at least some people who read that description are going to be disappointed by the actual content of Neil Marshall's 2005 British horror classic The Descent,...

A quick Google search of "Don't Look Now" brings up a wealth of web articles offering to explain what the ending of the film means. Personally, I would love an article that explains what any of this film's one hour and fifty minute run time means. Infinitely loose and extremely ambiguous, Nick Roeg's Don't Look Now is widely regarded as one of the best British films (not even just one of the best...

Strange new feelings she can't explain. Hair growing in places where there was no hair before. An insatiable interest in boy's bodies. Blood everywhere... That's right. Ginger is becoming a woman!  She's also becoming a massive werewolf after getting royally assaulted by one only ten minutes into this film. Ginger Snaps follows a couple of goth sisters who are obsessed with death, until it pr...

Look, just because something is the first of something, doesn't make it the best of something. If that were true we'd all still be walking around with mobile phones the size of house bricks and we'd be defecating over into in our back gardens. That does not detract from the fact that Romero's Night of the Living Dead is quite clearly a very important film, I'm just saying that its not the best fil...

Braindead features a living, murderous pile of guts that tries to throttle the film's protagonist before it is eventually thrown into a blender. In one scene, a woman's sore bursts pus into a man's custard and then he eats it. Then her ear falls off and she eats that. Someone, somewhere, saw this and decided that the man that had directed this movie only 9 years prior, should be handed the reins t...

Time. It stops for no man. It also doesn't stop for quite a few of the films on the first 100 Horrors of 100 Horrors and it leaves them looking dated and shite. Guillermo Del Toro's 1993 debut Cronos, is no exception. Join us as we break our own record for shortest episode ever on this week's 100 Horrors.  

We've met some pretty despicable villains throughout the previous 85 episodes of 100 Horrors. Mrs Vorhees invaded a summer camp and butchered people while they were on vacation. Mikey Myers invaded people's homes and murdered them while they celebrated Halloween. Freddy Krueger took it a step further and invaded people's dreams while they tried to sleep. Perhaps then, this is why the kids in Wolf...

Not a single film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson has ever scored a "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Here at 100 Horrors we're not entirely sure what that means, but we can sure see why that would be true. Event Horizon blends occultism, science fiction and a topless Sam Neil in an attempt to make something truly disturbing. Do they manage it? You'll have to tune in to episode 85 of 100 Horrors...

Electroshock therapy. Extreme isolation. Full frontal lobotomies. Indefinite imprisonment. These are just some of the horrors that "patients" had to experience during their stay in a mental asylum. Throw into the mix the fact that the ceilings were absolutely jam-packed with asbestos and I would say that your average asylum is about as close to hell on earth as you can get. Brad Anderson's 2001 ps...

Jeff Bezos collated his wealth and used it to blast himself into space while people who work for his company continue to suffer poor working conditions and incredible levels of job dissatisfaction. Richard Branson collated his wealth and used it to quietly buy up vast swathes of the NHS pushing the British public ever closer to the reality of either having health insurance or dying from easily cur...

A lot of the films that we've watched can barely get one narrative right, which is why its so nice to watch a film that takes on the daunting task of trying to tell 4 stories all at once. Directed by Michael Dougherty, Trick 'R' Treat was initially panned by the very people that funded it. Since then, it's gone on to become a bit of a cult classic. This is likely going to be our only straight to D...

Space. There's loads of it. And there's stuff in it. In an infinite universe, everything eventually is true. If the universe is infinite then it means some of the stuff in space is the white stuff that falls to Earth from Jupiter and starts making copies of everyone like the stuff in Phillip Kaufman's 1978 remake of the 1950s classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It also means that out there som...

Home invasions. Scary things if you haven't been trained in the deadly arts by a father who was a survivalist in the Australian outback. Thankfully, the protagonist in Adam Wingard's 2011 smash hit You're Next was trained in the deadly arts by a father who was a survivalist in the Australian outback, so that's cool. Naturally, 2 of us love it and 1 of us hates it. Tune in to find out who's the odd...

Imagine this. A new virus emerges. You get locked in your home and threatened with severe punishment if you leave. The government - the very ones who locked you in your home - offer absolutely no timeline for your release and do not seem to care about the horrors you face inside. Alright, so it’s not so difficult to imagine that sort of thing given the events of last few years, but I’ll tell you t...

Most horror villains don’t have a shred of remorse for the people they kill. Some don’t have a pulse. The blob takes it up a notch with a villain that doesn’t even have a spine… not one of his own anyway. This week we discuss the spectacular 1988 remake of the campy 1958 original, and naturally one of us really doesn’t appreciate it for what it is. Any guesses who among us can’t see the charm? Tun...

Although the title of this week's film could quite easily be used to describe a tenancy agreement in 2020's era London, in the 90's it carried with it a much more (or less, when you think about it) insidious tone. Both written and directed by Wes Craven, TPUTS toes the line between horror, comedy, political commentary and home alone rip off - but is it any good? Tune in this week to find out!

The further through this poster we go, the more I'm starting to suspect that John Carpenter himself curated the movies on it. This week we tackle his 1980 film The Fog, which was panned at by critics but which was a monster at the box office, making 20 times its initial budget. The film has since gone on to take on cult-classic status, but is it deserving of that status? Tune in this week to find...

There was a HUGE amount of critical acclaim heaped onto Jordan Peele's horror debut 'Get Out' when it was first released in 2017. Naturally, we're late to the party, coming in to say everything that everybody else has already said only 5 years too late. To be fair though, we did manage to discuss issues with pooing again this week, so we are putting our own spin on it in a way. EPISODE 75! 3 quart...

This week we discuss Misery. The 1990 one. Based on a Steven King book. 

It is widely regarded that a Mr John Michael Osbourne (Ozzy to his friends) is the Prince of Darkness. This makes it all the more surprising that a Mr Vincent Damon Furnier (Alice Cooper to his friends) was cast as the gaunt, shuffling zombie in John Carpenter's 1987 film Prince of Darkness. The movie is about a vial containing the liquid essence of the son of Satan, and it deals with quantum phys...