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The history of a haunted house, from the 19th century to today, will be explored in spooky fashion in the British anthology film Its Walls Were Blood. Steve Oram (Sightseers), Edward Hogg (Anonymous), and Polly McIntosh (White Settlers) have all joined the cast, per Screen Daily. Oram (pictured) was exquisitely good in Sightseers, and McIntosh brings beauty, grace, and feral intensity to her roles, so, yes, this is good news for the anthology flick. Individual segments will be directed by Sean Hogan (The Devil's Business), Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House), Tom Shankland (The Children) and Paul Davis (The Body). Of those filmmakers, I'm most familiar with Hogan, who has consistently plowed a fiercely independent, often uncomfortable path in his work, which includes the haunting Lie Still, and a nicely...

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Horror anthologies are becoming a popular trend in film nowadays, so it's nice to see one of the early ones finally getting a DVD release. Little Deaths is a trio of films directed by UK's Sean Hogan (Lie Still), Andrew Parkinson (Venus Drowning) and Simon Rumley (Red White & Blue). The theme connecting the three films is pretty loose: sex and death. Hogan's "House and Home" has a seemingly good samaritan couple take in a homeless girl, only to reveal their true sinister intentions, which may not turn out as they planned; Parkinson's "Mutant Tool" is about a former drug addict trying to straighten her life out, who is haunted by drug-induced nightmares of a caged man with a rather large, em, 'tool'; and Rumley's...

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Writer-director Sean Hogan made an impression with his debut in 2005, Lie Still (also known as The Haunting of #24), and has been one to watch in the horror genre ever since.

Hogan returns behind the camera with The Devil’s Business, which has been earning buzz over the past year doing the festival circuit, and we’ve now got a world exclusive new clip from the film ahead of its release in the UK this month.

“Two hit men are sent to murder an old associate of their underworld boss. But things are not all what they seem in their quarry’s house and the discovery of a make-shift black magic altar – and its shocking sacrifice – sends the uncomprehending duo into the shadowy darkness of their own tortured souls and terrifying confrontations with their worst primal fears.

Brilliantly acted, solidly crafted and exuding a palpable atmosphere of claustrophobic dread, this eerily...

Fancy a scare of the unfamiliar variety? Then check out some of the finest horror movies you've never seen...

There are a lot of terrible horror movies out there. Possibly more than any other genre, horror seems to appeal to wannabe filmmakers who figure it’s easy and cheap to pull off a scary movie – and thanks to the success of many low budget horror movies, distributors seem to be putting out an awful lot of them. So I’d understand if you didn’t want to trawl through an endless sea of crap to find the few real gems amongst the cinematic slurry.

But I’m an addict, and keep coming back for more punishment. The payoff is that sometimes, very occasionally, you discover something brilliant. Here are 25 great horror movies that you probably haven’t seen, possibly haven’t even heard of (some of them don’t even...

Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival turns 15 years old this summer, and sandwiched between the official opening and closing films - Kevin Smith's horror bow Red State and the Guillermo del Toro-scripted and -produced remake of 1973's Don't Be Afraid of The Dark, respectively - will be more than 120 features, 240 short films, 110 invited guests hosting screenings of their films, and numerous special events including the bestowing of lifetime achievement awards and round table discussions. Below is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's on offer this year. Sticking to its familiar Asia-versus-the-rest-of-the-world format, the fest's occidental category of genre fare features such high-profile fare as the aforementioned opening and closing films, as well as the world premiere of The Theatre Bizarre, a 7 filmmaker, 4 country horror anthology that includes segments directed by such genre luminaries as make-up effects wizard Tom Savini (1990's Night of the Living Dead...

UK filmmakers Sean Hogan (Lie Still), Andrew Parkinson (Dead Creatures,Venus Drowning) and Simon Rumley (The Living and the Dead, Red White & Blue) combat boredom with filmmaking. Over a pint (or two) at the local pub, they each decided to write and direct their own short horror film with the intention of tying them together as a feature length anthology which would come to be Little Deaths. They never could have predicted how well their three stories would fit together. I had the chance to chat with Sean Hogan and Simon Rumley in Austin at SXSW a few months back and talked about (among other things) drinking, mixing horror with sex and censorship. Check out our full chat below. FEARnet - How did the idea of...

Courtesy of SXSW A scene from “Little Deaths”

The horror anthology “Little Deaths” premiered at Austin’s South By Southwest Film Festival earlier this week and met with polarizing reactions from viewers; some enjoyed its transgressive sexuality, while others just found it troubling. But for directors Simon Rumley and Sean Hogan, those sorts of mixed responses are nothing new; their earlier films “Red White and Blue” and “Lie Still” were celebrated and condemned in equal measures. Rumley, whose last film...

[Our thanks to Kier-La Janisse and the fine people at Fantasia for allowing us to reprint the following interview with Tim League and Simon Rumley originally conducted for the Fantasia blog.]

Simon Rumley blew my mind in 2006 with his debut genre feature The Living and the Dead, which swept up awards all over the festival circuit and established him as a major international talent. Despite the fact that he already had a healthy back-catalogue of indie films prior to The Living and the Dead, the response it received assured that he's been at home in genre films ever since. He's just finishing post on a new anthology film made with fellow British renegades Sean Hogan (Lie Still - released in the Us as The Haunting of #24) and Andrew Parkinson (Venus Drowning) called Little Deaths, and he's here in town at Fantasia to present the Canadian Premiere of his latest genre-bender, Red White and Blue.

The film - in which three emotionally disfigured people find themselves at the centre of a multi-tiered revenge triangle - stars Amanda Fuller (Buffy the Vampire Slayer...