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I did it. I survived Frightfest Glasgow (opens in new tab). Here’s my definitive list of the best horror on offer and their associated heartrate on my trusty Fitbit. Baskin (2015) I can say one thing for certain. There is nothing like Baskin. The journey of five Turkish police officers …

If the spoiler you’re going to reveal is that there’s nothing to spoil, is a spoiler tag truly required? With this pop culture ontology in mind, and the hornet-buzz of anticipation that someone on the internet will get upset no matter what I type here, let’s begin. Spoilers. Right, so …

Long, long ago, back in the before times, we rolled our multiplayer action at home splitscreen style. We’d play Goldeneye 007, four tiny guns and blocky hands each in their own quadrant, on a fuzzy CRT television and we would love it. Part of the fun of splitscreen shooters back …

Silent Hill has Pyramid Head. Outlast has the perpetually smiling Chris Walker, as well as an asylum’s worth of other nasty characters. SOMA has whatever the hell these are (opens in new tab). Layers of Fear (opens in new tab) has stacks of books and apples. Not exactly what springs …

Movies are pretty much my life, which is why I wait with bated breath each year for the Oscars. Oh, wait, no I don’t. While the rest of the world might see the Academy Awards as the height of cinematic praise, I prefer to ignore these predictable and effectively irrelevant …

Stephen King has scared the heebie-jeebies out of millions of readers for over 40 years and is still going strong. However, the Master of Horror took a detour into SF territory with 11.22.63. The novel finds time traveller Jake Epping on a mission to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from assassinating …

A whole new (virtual) world VR is coming to invade living rooms this year with the Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive just on the horizon, and each new headset has a full library of games coming at launch. The Oculus Rift headsets are going out to consumer’s homes …

It’s a freezing December day in deepest, darkest Basingstoke. Ten minutes outside the Hampshire town, a large cast of extras in Regency attire are milling around a large farmhouse and barn. At first glance, you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve arrived on the set of yet another British costume …

Warning: Spoilers for The Witness ahead Besides those increasingly infamous Tetris block puzzles, the mountain is bound to be the biggest stumbling block for anyone playing The Witness (opens in new tab). After hours spent drawing lines on puzzle panels and deciphering the rules associated with certain shapes and colors, …

The final line in Swiss Army Man is “What the fuck?!” It’ll no doubt resonate with audiences, who’ll likely be questioning what the hell they’ve just seen. One of the most talked-about films of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, it’s made headlines as much for its graphic bodily-function humour as …