Reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk, I realised I might finally have found a way of explaining what The Splits is about.

When my husband went away for three weeks dayum I was relieved. Finally… FINALLY … a sweet 21-day binge on horror films. Here are the highlights.

The Babadook and Under the Shadow are uncannily similar films. But which is better?

I want to zoom in on the transformation of the father into a zombie…

In The Splits there’s no root and branch transformation. I hope this will not be the case after coronavirus. I hope we see real change.

I don’t actually believe in the supernatural, but I believe in what it stood for in this show…

Not everybody will see Arthur Fleck as vulnerable because not everybody has the luxury. Some of us have experienced nastier versions of him…

What would it be like if you couldn’t understand the minds of others?

As a fan of The Babadook, I’ve always got room for another exploration of mother-child relationships through horror…

The working title of the next novel in The Splits Archive is Zombies in a Brothel …

Now I HATE torture porn, but I loved this film. What gives?

If loving horror is an orientation, I’ve only just come out of the closet…

Clive Barker is a specialist subject and I'm no expert, but these to films are dear to my heart and I had to go there.

My ear was recently grabbed by a radio show on how diseases get their names…

I didn’t see how there could be anything good about this, but it’s lovely to be wrong.

Slow and mournful but also way scarier than most horror films…

Renews the dynamic and results in a film that is just as riveting as the original, if not more so…

A short film about three men stuck on a sinking ship, with only one life-jacket… I wanted it to be longer.

One hell of a story, about three generations of medicine-women who battle with the evil in gods, men and in themselves to find happiness.

Takes the people we trust to look violent death in the eye – forensic pathologists – and strips them down…

It was as if Shirley Jackson's classic novel had been haunting me from the future…

A beautifully-written haunted house story which plumbs incredible depths of creepiness.

@AChrisHeathMD  is... um... interesting <strokes beard, jots notes>

Opened my eyes to the experience of black women, and to new layers of the horror genre…

Shudder's new talkshow feels a bit like a warm hug. If loving horror is an orientation, then here is a place to identify and relate.

Psychology Today's twitter feed is great for everybody - horror fans, writers, couples, single people, parents, depressives, manics, Donald Trump.... everybody…