At Twisted Tales we are passionate about promoting great horror across a variety of media. Our events aim to seek out and promote the best in novelistic and short story horror and also give the general public a great opportunity to get up close and personal with the writers. To complement this we also review horror in its other forms under the banner "Nightmare Visions". Below you can find what we consider to be the best of 21st century horror from film, TV, theatre, and video games plus an archive of the reviews available on this site. These lists aren't comprehensive they represent the best of horror from the best of our knowledge. If you think there's something amazing missing please get in touch either via e-mail or through the general comments section.
Films: Tomas Alfredson Let the Right One In (2008), Brad Anderson Session 9 (2001), Antti-Jussi Annila Sauna (2008), Darren Aronofsky Requiem for a Dream (2000) Black Swan (2010), Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza [•Rec] (2007), [•Rec]2 (2009), Juan Antonio Bayona The Orphanage (2007), Bryan Bertino The Strangers (2008), Joon-ho Bong The Host (2006), Danny Boyle 28 Days Later (2002) and Sunshine (2007), Nacho Cerda The Abandoned (2006), Oxide Pang Chung and Danny Pang The Eye (2002), Frank Darabont The Mist (2007), Anthony DiBlasi Dread (2009), Kinji Fukasaku Battle Royale (2000), Stuart Gordon Dagon (2001), John Harrison Book of Blood (2009), Mary Harron American Psycho (2000), Mikael Hafstrom 1408 (2007), Ji-woon Kim A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), Ryuhei Kitamura Midnight Meat Train (2008), Pascal Laugier House of Voices (2004) and Martyrs (2008), Andrew Leman The Call of Cthulhu (2005), David Lynch Mulholand Drive (2001), Neil Marshall The Descent (2005), Shane Meadows Dead Man's Shoes (2004), Takashi Miike Ichi the Killer (2001), Hideo Nakata Dark Water (2002), Chan-wook Park Oldboy (2003), Philip Ridley Heartless (2010), David Slade Hard Candy (2005) and 30 Days of Night (2007), Christopher Smith Triangle (2009), Guillermo del Torro The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Lars von Trier's Antichrist (2009), James Wan Saw (2004), Ti West The House of the Devil (2009).
TV Series: Afterlife (2005-), Apparitions (2008), Being Human (2008-), Carnivàle (2003-5), Crooked House (2008), Dead Set (2008), Dexter (2006-), True Blood (2008-), The Turn of the Screw (2009), Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010).
Stage: Ghost Stories (2010-, still running), Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales (2011-).
Video Games: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010), Alan Wake (2010), Bioshock (2007), Bioshock 2 (2010), Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005), Clive Barker’s Undying (2001), Condemned: Criminal Origins (2005), Condemned 2: Bloodshot (2008), The Darkness (2007), Dead Space (2008), Dead Space 2 (2011), Decay (2010), Doom 3 (2004), Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (2002), Limbo (2010), Project Zero (2001), Resident Evil Code: Veronica (2000), Resident Evil 4 (2005), Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009).
Films: Tomas Alfredson Let the Right One In (2008), Brad Anderson Session 9 (2001), Antti-Jussi Annila Sauna (2008), Darren Aronofsky Requiem for a Dream (2000) Black Swan (2010), Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza [•Rec] (2007), [•Rec]2 (2009), Juan Antonio Bayona The Orphanage (2007), Bryan Bertino The Strangers (2008), Joon-ho Bong The Host (2006), Danny Boyle 28 Days Later (2002) and Sunshine (2007), Nacho Cerda The Abandoned (2006), Oxide Pang Chung and Danny Pang The Eye (2002), Frank Darabont The Mist (2007), Anthony DiBlasi Dread (2009), Kinji Fukasaku Battle Royale (2000), Stuart Gordon Dagon (2001), John Harrison Book of Blood (2009), Mary Harron American Psycho (2000), Mikael Hafstrom 1408 (2007), Ji-woon Kim A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), Ryuhei Kitamura Midnight Meat Train (2008), Pascal Laugier House of Voices (2004) and Martyrs (2008), Andrew Leman The Call of Cthulhu (2005), David Lynch Mulholand Drive (2001), Neil Marshall The Descent (2005), Shane Meadows Dead Man's Shoes (2004), Takashi Miike Ichi the Killer (2001), Hideo Nakata Dark Water (2002), Chan-wook Park Oldboy (2003), Philip Ridley Heartless (2010), David Slade Hard Candy (2005) and 30 Days of Night (2007), Christopher Smith Triangle (2009), Guillermo del Torro The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Lars von Trier's Antichrist (2009), James Wan Saw (2004), Ti West The House of the Devil (2009).
TV Series: Afterlife (2005-), Apparitions (2008), Being Human (2008-), Carnivàle (2003-5), Crooked House (2008), Dead Set (2008), Dexter (2006-), True Blood (2008-), The Turn of the Screw (2009), Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010).
Stage: Ghost Stories (2010-, still running), Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales (2011-).
Video Games: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010), Alan Wake (2010), Bioshock (2007), Bioshock 2 (2010), Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005), Clive Barker’s Undying (2001), Condemned: Criminal Origins (2005), Condemned 2: Bloodshot (2008), The Darkness (2007), Dead Space (2008), Dead Space 2 (2011), Decay (2010), Doom 3 (2004), Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (2002), Limbo (2010), Project Zero (2001), Resident Evil Code: Veronica (2000), Resident Evil 4 (2005), Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009).
Archive of Reviews on This Site:
> 1408 (Dir. Mikael Håfström) reviewed by Laura Bettney.
> Antichrist (Dir. Lars von Trier) reviewed by David Hering. (F)
> Apparitions reviewed by Lorna Jowett. (TV)
> Antichrist (Dir. Lars von Trier) reviewed by David Hering. (F)
> Apparitions reviewed by Lorna Jowett. (TV)
> Carnivàle reviewed by Lorna Jowett. (TV)
> Deadspace reviewed by Tim Franklin. (VG)
> The Devil's Backbone (Dir. Guillermo del Toro) reviewed by Enrique Ajuria Ibarra. (F)
> Deadspace reviewed by Tim Franklin. (VG)
> The Devil's Backbone (Dir. Guillermo del Toro) reviewed by Enrique Ajuria Ibarra. (F)
> Dorothy (Dir. Agnes Merlet) reviewed by Alison J. Littlewood. (F)
> Limbo reviewed by Tim Franklin. (VG)
> Martyrs (Dir. Pascal Laugier) reviewed by Stephen Curtis. (F)
> Limbo reviewed by Tim Franklin. (VG)
> Martyrs (Dir. Pascal Laugier) reviewed by Stephen Curtis. (F)
> The Midnight Meat Train (Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura) reviewed by Laura Bettney. (F)
> The Mist (Dir. Frank Darabont) reviewed by Chris Pak. (F)
> Pan's Labyrinth (Dir. Guillermo del Toro) reviewed by Enrique Ajuria Ibarra. (F)
> The Mist (Dir. Frank Darabont) reviewed by Chris Pak. (F)
> Pan's Labyrinth (Dir. Guillermo del Toro) reviewed by Enrique Ajuria Ibarra. (F)
(F) Film, (TV) TV, (S) Stage, (VG) Video Games
All reviews are edited by David McWilliam with additional work by Glyn Morgan
