Write what you know, that’s the old adage, right? I mean, it’s crap, but it’s what they say. I once had that line thrown at me when, as a callow twenty-something in my first job out of university, I presented a short play I had drafted to a member of my amateur dramatic society, who had herself just had her first script sold to Samuel French. With hindsight, given that her play revolved around a character’s absent father being revealed as having transitioned, and that it did

My copy of The Devil in Silver. I’m currently reading The Devil in Silver  by Victor LaValle, which is the source for the next series of the horror anthology series The Terror . As Dan Simmons, who wrote The Terror , the historical Arctic horror that was adapted for the first series, has recently died, and as there are several horror adaptations on the horizon, I thought I’d look at what feels like a fairly modern debate – do you adapt for movie or TV? Now, when I say TV, I’m

Visually and conceptually, the film is ambitious. Long shots in the daylight despite it's dark nature creates an imbalance of safety, and allows the narrative to force your brain into going back and forth on what is truly happening. The composition is brilliant, the tension never misses, and if not for the final sequences I would be singing it's praises as a masterpiece.