Hello and welcome to another issue of the Guide which – in Gwilym’s absence – is written by me and will accordingly be about one of my favourite things: horror films. Ever since I was a teen gobbling up Scream, Friday the 13th and Final Destination at sleepovers, I’ve always found a good horror film to be one of life’s little pleasures, like an early finish on a Friday or a Double Big Mac.
Of course, horror has got more high-concept in recent years, from Ari Aster’s artfully nightmarish flicks Midsommar and Hereditary to the work of one Jordan Peele. Often, such films are described as “elevated horror”, a term which has become popular in recent times and tends to refer to films which tackle contemporary social issues in arthouse fashion as well as scaring us witless.
