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The horror genre has infinite potential for creativity, allowing filmmakers the chance to mix and match horror with almost any other genre. That distinction often leads to unexpected and impressive results. Horror musical? Ok. Action horror? Sure thing. Slapstick horror comedy? You betcha.

It’s great fun to see filmmakers meld horror with seemingly opposing genres and make magic in the process. Seeing as the horror space is so deeply connected to a wide range of human emotions, it makes a certain amount of sense that it’s so infinitely adaptable and often lends itself to unexpected pairings.

Ryan Coogler recently proved just how adaptable the horror genre really is with his celebrated genre mashup, Sinners. The flick amalgamates elements of several genres. In addition to horror, the list includes musical, Southern Gothic, action, and period drama. While one may not expect those seemingly opposed categories to mesh well, fans...

May 25th is an important date for hardcore Star Wars devotees. It's the date that A New Hope hit theaters back in 1977 and changed the game forever. It's also the same date that Solo: A Star Wars Story opened in theaters in 2018. The Han Solo standalone movie was not well-received initially, mainly due to the fact that it came out less than six months after Rian Johnson's heavily divisive The Last Jedi. However, times have changed, and just like last year's one-year anniversary, the movie is trending on social media again as fans beg for a sequel.

#MakeSolo2Happen is trending on Twitter for the second year in a row. Solo fans, some of which who didn't even see the movie in theaters, are ready for Disney and Lucasfilm to deliver a sequel with Alden Ehrenreich back as the young Han Solo. Revealing Darth Maul at the end of...

On Thursday night, Revolver Entertainment marked the release of Snowtown with a screening of the film, a live Tweet-along and a Q&A with its director Justin Kurzel. Snowtown is a depiction of the real life murders that happened in the nineties in the town close to Adelaide. The film is told from the point of view of Jamie (Lucas Pittaway), an abused teen that becomes embroiled into the world of John Bunting (Daniel Henshall), an outwardly personable man who also happens to be a sadistic murderer.

The film is relentlessly tense (aided by Jed Kurzel’s outstanding score) and oppressively bleak. It is at times almost impressionistic and its use of oversaturated imagery adds to the near-dreamlike quality of the film. Whilst much of the violence is left unseen, what we do witness is so gut-wrenchingly inhumane it’s physically difficult to watch. I had to duck out for...

Halloween’s almost upon us, and to mark the occasion, Glen’s delved into the archives to find his favourite horror movie scores…

Good readers, it’s that time of year again. The time when it’s acceptable to wander the streets dressed like a psycho killer and not get arrested for it. It’s also the time of year when there’ll be all manner of Halloween parties, and while some will no doubt resort to lazily playing Monster Mash and Thriller on a loop, I can’t help but feel it would be better if people would dig into some great horror scores to add a suitably spooky atmosphere to proceedings.

A great score can make or break a horror film. With this in mind, here are some of my favourite horror movie scores, as well as some suggestions from some well-informed writers I converse with.

Hellraiser – Christopher Young...