Articles by Anne Billson

Shock therapy: why scary movies keep evolving – and making money

With Hollywood favouring franchise fare, horror films have become the last bastion of inventive film-making, producing a new generation of auteurs in the process

Killer hounds, rabid chimps and a tiny Jean Dujardin – the Sitges film festival 2025

Pets gone rogue, vomiting and martial arts were recurrent themes in this year’s annual roundup of fantasy, horror and cult movies