Sam Whitehouse reviews UMDS’s Gorgon Westley’s Railway Circus, which was performed at the Peer Hat as part of the MIFTAs

Cara Conte reviews Ghost Stories at the Lowry

Kubrick’s most controversial film based of the Steven King novel of the same name, The Shining, is revisited by writer Tom Kuson

Faced with the monumental task of reviewing The Lighthouse, film editor Tobias Soar opts instead to ramble about director, writer, and producer Robert Eggers

Carl Fitzgerald reviews the painfully unscary poorly made and cartoonishly misjudged urban legend phone-horror movie

Cara Conte reviews the stage adaptation of The Exorcist

Writer Carl Fitzgerald reviews the awesomely gory film Satanic Panic at Grimmfest 2019

Tobias Soar reviews The Pierce Brothers’ 2019 tale of the witch-next-door, screened at Grimmfest this month

Writer Tom Kuson rolls the dice and sees what Risks the horror-comedy takes as it climbs Snakes and Ladders to its conclusion (Sorry about the puns)

It seems like every week there’s a different festival happening in Manchester; here’s a selection of our favourite Mancunian film festivals

A guide to Manchester’s cinemas, festivals and events for 2019

Film Editor, Tobias Soar, reviews the horrifying sequel movie to Stephen King’s ‘IT’ – Don’t worry there’s no spoilers

The Grimmfest crew paid homage to two of the best alien invasion films at the Plaza, Stockport

If one word could describe Peele’s impeccable second venture into the cinematic world of horror, it’s clever, writes Tobias Soar

A story that follows the three days leading up to the murder by the Manson family, The Haunting of Sharon Tate fails to deliver the thrills it promises, writes Madeleine Peden

Grimmfest’s double-bill of Japanese horror films Ringu and Battle Royale at The Plaza in Stockport

Twenty years onward, Hideo Nakada’s iconic existential video horror remains just as powerful, substantive and terrifying as ever

Alien has thrilled audiences for 40 years and is a testament to challenging the status quo and achieving brilliance even with limited resources.

Does Kristen Roupenian’s debut collection live up to the hype of Cat Person? Lucy Downing finds out…

A February dumping ground horror sequel that seems to meander in uniqueness only to lose its way and not really know what to do next