FX’s award winning horror TV series, American Horror Story uses just about every familiar device of the horror genre, and yet the show has maintained complete originality for two seasons. The reason for this is that in both seasons of American Horror Story, the interplay of characters and plot has let us experience these horror clichés from a new range of...

It’s psycho serial killer versus psycho serial killer in this thoroughly enjoyable episode of Masters of Horror. ‘Pick Me Up opens with a bus broken down on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. One passenger, Stacia (Fairuza Balk – remember The Craft?), decides to walk to the nearest bit of civilisation while two others decide to catch a ride with a friendly truck driver, Jim Wheeler (Michael Moriarty) who happens on by.

Ten years ago, Firefly was born. And then it died. Still, with only a single season of fourteen significantly low rating episodes, and then a movie, Serenity (2005) Firefly has spawned the kind of dedicated fan culture that most creators can only dream about, unless of course that creator is Joss Whedon. Earlier this year, the cast and creators of Firefly...

When curious and quirky entomologist, Ida Teeter (Angela Bettis) gets dumped again because of her pet insects, she thinks her chances of ever finding love are dashed forever. It’s the bugs or the babes, says her fellow entomologist, Max Grubb (Jesse Hlubik) and Ida is beginning to think he’s right.

666 Park Avenue is the glitzy new paranormal series from ABC, based on the 2011 novel by Gabriella Pierce. Three episodes in, the TV series still has reasonable potential and is generally enjoyable to watch, but this viewer at least isn’t hooked yet. The premise – Young up and coming couple, Jane Van Been (Rachael Taylor) and Henry Martin (Dave Annable) are the...

The annual ‘Treehouse of Horror’ has been a Halloween treat for Simpsons fans since the show’s second season way back in 1990. Back then we had Homer playing the lead role in an animation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven(and Bart as the bird); the Simpson family being abducted by aliens and fearing they would be eaten in ‘Hungry are the Damned’ – which was also...