Mike Leitch

Nov 27, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Mike Leitch |Mark Cunliffe

Low-fi indie sci-fi is a surprisingly fertile sub-genre, something that can be traced back to classics like The Twilight Zone that lacked the budget for epic effects but used their limitations to explore big concepts. It’s a great place to showcase great film-makers who go on to bigger budgets, such as Rian Johnson did with Looper or Benson and Moorhead did with their body of work before being snatched into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Nov 18, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Mike Leitch

A reunion of Come to Daddy director Ant Timpson, writer Toby Harvard and stars Elijah Wood and Michael Smiley, with the addition of Nell Fisher after her star making turn in Evil Dead Rise, would pique the interest of most horror fans, but despite showing at Frightfest earlier this year, Bookworm couldn’t be further from the dark tone of those films.

Oct 4, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Mike Leitch

If you look at the list of directors and writers who have contributed to the V H S series, it is impressive how many would go on to huge success such as Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Benson and Moorhead and Chloe Okuno, to name a few. By this point though, it has started to include more established names as contributors, such as Kate Siegel who makes her directorial debut but is well known for her collaborations with husband Mike Flanagan (and indeed wrote the script for her segment).

Sep 25, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Mike Leitch

Dracula may be the best known fictional vampire around but Bram Stoker’s creation is far from the origin point. European folklore and stories like John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” from 1819 had long established vampires as frightening creatures, and it’s this tradition that Adrien Beau draws on for his take.

Aug 30, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Mike Leitch

From Dead of Night in 1945 to The House in 2022, anthologies are a familiar, and usually comforting presence in British horror. There’s much that could be, and likely has been, discussed about how this harks back to short stories from British writers like M. R. James and Charles Dickens, and how the tradition has been carried on most successfully on television, with shows like Tales of the Unexpected, Alfred Hitchcock Presents …, and Inside No. 9 just to name a few.