Horror

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Mama

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 20th February 2013

Just as Rob is now The Shiznit's go-to guy for dance movies, it seems I've somehow become the de facto horror critic around here. An unwise editorial decision at best: I'd only seen about six horror films before, and two of them were Ghostbusters in different aspect ratios. Here's a thing I've learned, though: there is a Spanish man called Guillermo del Toro who sneaks into edit bays and shoves his name in at the start of other people's films. But he seems to know his Spanish onions: Mama, the latest film he has credits-bombed, is pretty much triumphant from start to finish.

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V/H/S

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 17th January 2013

Everyone stop filming yourselves doing everything. It inevitably ends in your murder. Then someone will find the footage and make money off it while you're in the cold, cold ground. Even worse, the footage won't even comprise a found footage movie: it'll end up being the footage someone finds in a found footage movie about people finding footage. And all people will ever say of you will be: "Sheesh, that guy sure went to great lengths to explain why he was filming himself."

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Here's why I don't get on with American Horror Story

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 18th December 2012

This guy. Supposedly they're a normal family who moved into a haunted house, but the bloke never puts a shirt on and he looks like this with it off. And human beings don't actually look like that, so I lost interest. Oh, and Dylan McDermott shirtless topless abs, by the way, Google.

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A note to the makers of Silent Hill: Revelation

Movie Feature | Ali | 1st November 2012

Yes, I know he was in the Silent Hill games before he was in the movie. Still, I bet he reeks of cheddar.

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Sinister

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 5th October 2012

It irritates the hell out of me when people use obviously fake computers in movies. A black screen with green text like it's 1982. A free-typed database command like 'FIND ALL GUNSHOT VICTIMS IN SAN DIEGO'. An analogue beep as a search engine returns its results. So I am delighted to report that in horror movie Sinister, Ethan Hawke uses realistic search terms in Google. He talks to people on iChat. He uses real commands on dropdown menus, moves stuff to his recycle bin, and encodes video into .mov files. How scary is the film? Um ... it's ... did I mention how good the computer bits are?

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For a film which is definitely going to be terrible, this poster isn't half bad

Movie News | Ali | 30th August 2012

Texas Chainsaw 3D ("because 'Massacres' are bad for business!") is out in January, and even though it'll be awful, this teaser poster is kind of creepy. Not sure about the nob in the jar, though. (Click here for hi-res).

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Shiznit Halloween shamefest: movies that scared us silly

Movie Feature | Luke | 31st October 2011

Boo! Sorry for the fright. It had to be done so you understand the mental anguish this article caused. For you see, us Shizniteers bear the terrible mindscars of a youth misspent watching movies that freaked us out in horrible ways. We only share these experiences with you now in the hope their curse will be lifted, or maybe even fobbed off on to you, dear reader. Either way is good. So behold as we regale you with tales of terror, each more terrifying than the last. You have been warned...

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The Shiznit Halloween movie liveblog: Sunday edition

Movie Feature | Ali | 30th October 2011

I'm almost ready to go with Sunday's Halloween movie liveblog, after the 'incredible success' (read: 'zero retweets') of yesterday's waffling. The headcheese toasties are ready, here we go...

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The Shiznit Halloween movie liveblog

Movie Feature | Ali | 29th October 2011

Because what kind of Halloween would it be without someone telling you all about the films they're watching?

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American Horror Story promo clip overload: the backlash

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 30th August 2011

I honestly think the teaser vid has reached critical mass. Did Jimmy Joe YouTube, inventor of YouTube, realise what sort of headfuckery he was potentially unleashing? I tried Skyping him to ask but it just keeps saying 'Embedding disabled by request' on the screen.

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