• Film Review: The Lighthouse

    Towards the end of the 19th Century, an ageing lighthouse keeper (Willem Dafoe) is joined by a rookie ‘wickie’ (Robert Pattinson) on a remote island. As their contract drags on, the two men struggle with each-other, their own sanity, and possibly forces beyond their comprehension....
  • Event Review: Screamfest

    Situated in Staffordshire at the National Forest Adventure Farm, Screamfest is a scare park which welcomes over 22,000 visitors every year for a night of horror and laughter in equal measure. With five scares to experience, Impact were invited to the preview night to see what all the fuss was...
  • Horror Movie of the Month – MANDY

    Mandy provides balls to the wall insanity in a way only a Nicholas Cage film can. And it’s pure brilliance. Similarly to my piece on S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk, I’m not going into massive detail plot-wise on this one. Mainly because even after watching Mandy twice, I’m still...
  • Horror Movie of the Month – BONE TOMAHAWK

    You’ve seen Westerns. You’ve seen horror movies. But have you ever seen a Western-horror movie? No? Well then sit back and relax - you’re in for a treat....
  • Our Attraction to Horror Movies

    From being forced to watch both versions of The Woman in Black during my GCSE’s and spending the greater part of them hidden behind my coat, I started to wonder how my peers could take enjoyment from what I thought to be such a tortuous activity. The idea that...
  • TV Review: The Order

    The latest in a long line of Netflix originals, The Order is a ten-episode horror drama series conceived by Dennis Heaton and starring Jake Manley (Heroes Reborn, iZombie) as Jack Morton, Sarah Grey as Alyssa Drake, and Max Martini (Saving Private Ryan) as Edward Coventry. The show presents an...
  • What makes Stephen King’s ‘IT’ scary?

    In 1957, 5-year-old Georgie Denbrough looks for his paper boat that has fallen inside of a storm drain in a street in the town of Derry, Maine. Inside the dark, he is faced with a pair of shining yellow eyes, a face covered in circus makeup, one hand holding...