A viva experience to forget has left me reeling. At higher education institutions across the world the pinnacle of academic recognition is the Ph.D. Taking a minimum of three years – and often far longer – to complete, writing a thesis is a labour of love that culminates in the bliss of those three post-nominal
To many, this is a question that is easy to answer. Ask any book lover and they will tell you the wonders of reading Dickens, Austen or Shakespeare. However, what is never really discussed are the reasons why. Book lovers, myself included, tend to forget that the applicable skills we gained from studying literature are
Exploring a world of scares. Why do we love horror? That’s the question I want to ask you today. Why, in a world of such beauty and wonder, do so many of us choose to sup from the well of fear? What does the gore, the psychological tension and the mysterious nature of the uncanny
A dive into one of the most overrated films ever I hate this film. ever since I first watched The Shining at eighteen years old I felt a distinct dislike of Kubrick’s movie. I had heard all of the typically celebratory remarks, I had seen it placed in people’s ‘Top Ten’ horror films of all
An insult to the undead Over a year ago now, I wrote a post explaining why I disliked the much-loved Night of the Living Dead. Now I return after finally, finally watching the 1978 sequel Dawn of the Dead to tell you that it is even worse. Perhaps I was spoiled by seeing the 2004
Finally a Reason to Rejoice There was much anticipation to see what 343 Studios had done with Microsoft’s flagship franchise after its much-maligned introduction in August 2020. Thankfully, the studio seems to have reacted well to fan feedback, and the game, now given the time, looks far more polished and ready to dazzle than it
A late nineties classic that always manages to entertain. Stephen Sommers built a reputation in the early 2000s as the go-to director for campy big-budget B-movies such as The Scorpion King (2002) and Van Helsing (2004). What he is best known for, however, is his 1999 reboot of the Universal classic The Mummy. The Mummy
It has been over a month now since the release of CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. While some iterations of the game have earned rave reviews, the PS4 and Xbox One versions have fallen woefully short of expectations built up over almost a decade since the game’s reveal in 2013. In the aftermath of these
A memorable if cliched classic Since this is the month of love I would be remiss to avoid one of the horror genre’s hidden gems based around the sickeningly sweet holiday. In 1981, amidst the wave of holiday-themed slashers inspired by the success of Halloween and Friday the 13th, audiences were treated to another slice
A dive into the works of a horror master. When I first picked up a copy of The Shining for my third-year Literature course at university I was left unimpressed. The ghosts of the Overlook Hotel failed to give me the sweats and sleepless nights that I had expected from reading a King novel. There