“How do you know there’s not a conspiracy? Like maybe the X-Files is right. Where do all these movies come from anyway? How do we know Spielberg, Lucas, Sonnenfeld, Emmerich haven’t been visited by aliens? Maybe they’re aliens themselves… Maybe they’re simply preparing us for what’s to come.”

In the creation of a creepy horrifying horror movie, as evil estate agents say, location is everything. Where you set your macabre masterpiece can make or break your movie.

With Super 8 released last week into U.K cinemas J.J Abrams talks through the surprising and not so surprising influences on his monster movie including some Spielberg masterpieces and some unexpected horrors.

We here at Love Horror love Halloween (and not just by proxy). Every year, when the Celtic festival of harvest rolls around a wicked expression of unsettling menace creeps its way across our sunken faces. It’s the one day of the year that we are allowed to indulge our obsession with everything ghoulish and ghastly, [...]