Five years after the East Coast was ravaged in Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Fin, his family and the cosmos have been blissfully sharknado-free in the intervening years, but now sharks—and ‘nados!—are being whipped up in places (and ways) least expected… Why we’re looking forward to this: Are we really up to a fourth Sharknado …
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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s Firestarter Revisited
Sometime around 1983 I finally secured a copy of Stephen King’s Firestarter in the form of a dog-eared paperback barely held together by the binding. Upon opening the book for the first time, some of the pages at the front fell out of the book, and I thought about calling the library to explain what …
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Look Out For… Blighters by Tim Major and The Hidden Back Room by Jason A. Wyckoff
Look Out For… Blighters by Tim Major “Blighters is a peculiar and somehow very British take on the alien invasion theme.” Them Blighters are everywhere. They fell out of the sky last year, great horrible armour-plated slugs with razor-sharp fangs. But ugly as they are, they give the ultimate high to anyone nearby: a blissful, …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 18 July 2016
Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: 15 great horror films on Netflix 7 of Horror Director David Cronenberg’s Most Twisted Movies Save the Slashers: In Defence of 80’s Horror Movies The H Word: On Writing …
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The Cutting Room – Bed of the Dead
A gruesome and bizarre romp about curious couples at a haunted sex club who find themselves imprisoned on a massive and massively evil mattress. Why we’re looking forward to this: Yes, it’s another one of those movies that part of you knows you really should avoid like the plague, but has such a preposterous premise …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 11 July 2016
Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: 5 Unmade Ray Harryhausen Films We Wish Existed 10 Politically Themed Horror Films Neil Marshall Talks Dark Signal Revisiting Cabin in the Woods Evil Dead II Kickstarter Board Game …
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The Cutting Room – Model Hunger
Former pinup model Ginny had been cast aside by the heartless and exploitative modelling industry. Ginny didn’t take rejection well and grew into a revenge-seeking, bloodthirsty, broken woman. When her new neighbours Debbie and Sal move in, Debbie begins to notice strange things going on—Sal believes she is mentally unstable, but Debbie becomes determined to …
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The Comforts of the Coffin: Finding Solace in Horror Cinema
The Comforts of the Coffin: Finding Solace in Horror Cinema There’s always something to worry about. If it’s not the political chaos caused by the recent referendum, there’s the fear that an asteroid could wipe out all life on earth, that a superbug will eradicate most of the population, or that the mega volcano under …
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Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates and The Pale Brown Thing by Fritz Leiber
Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates “These stories combine suspenseful plotting with an astute eye for both character and setting.” Showcasing the darker side of the author’s imagination, Dark Travellings takes us from a post-apocalyptic future where music offers mankind its only hope to a quiet country lane where an apparently chance encounter …
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The Dark Water of Koji Suzuki
Continuing my immersion in the watery worlds of dark fiction, I turn my attention this month to the work of Koji Suzuki. Suzuki, an award winning Japanese writer of horror, fantasy and SF is best known for his Ring novels, which inspired the famous succession of Japanese films before a series of American remakes. I …
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