Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Scared Senseless: The Indie Horror Boom and What Frightens Us Now Is the Horror Genre Finally Back From the Dead? Together Forever: The Ginger Snaps Trilogy 5 ’80s Horror Movies That Would …
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The Cutting Room: Let The Right One In
Let The Right One In Twelve-year-old Oskar is lonely, bullied and badly in need of a friend when he meets Eli, a beautiful but strange girl who appears to be his own age and who has just moved into his apartment block. All is not quite what it seems, however, as bodies begin to pile …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 March 2015
Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: Carrie: Original Vs Remake Evil Eighties: The Hollywood Horrors of David J. Schow Friday the 13th Part III: How an ’80s Horror Franchise Bet It All On 3-D …
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The Cutting Room: Lost Soul
Lost Soul In 1996 an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 1896 novel The Island Of Doctor Moreau was released to indifferent reviews, with many critics speculating that it could have been so much more. Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau is the story of just how much more it could have …
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Antipodean Nights: What Is Horror?
What Is Horror? Horror is an ancient art form. For as long as we’ve told stories around a fire, it’s likely a vast majority of those stories have been horror, or at least what we’d call horror today. Tales that terrify were probably used to educate the young in what danger lies ahead, and to …
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Look Out For… Dead Boys by Gabriel Squailia and Jews vs Aliens
Look Out For… Dead Boys by Gabriel Squailia “Dead Boys heralds the arrival of a new and unique voice onto the scene.” A decade dead, Jacob Campbell is a preservationist, providing a kind of taxidermy to keep his clients looking lifelike for as long as the forces of entropy will allow. But in the Land …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 16 March 2015
Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Evil Eighties: The Creepy Nursery Rhymes of Elizabeth Engstrom The 20 Greatest Original Horror Scores When Books Live at the Thrilling Intersection of Sci-Fi and Horror How to Make a Good Horror …
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Look Out For… The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth and Leytonstone by Stephen Volk
Look Out For… The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth “In The Devil’s Detective, Unsworth gives us his own personal and idiosyncratic version of Hell.” Welcome to hell… …. where skinless demons patrol the lakes and the waves of Limbo wash against the outer walls, while the souls of the Damned float on their surface, …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 9 March 2015
Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: How Horror Franchises Redefine Themselves Over Time Blood on a Budget: Who Are the Women of DIY Horror? Lovecraft: Discovering the Man Behind the Mythos Horror and the Human Condition Horror’s Final …
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The Cutting Room: Alien 5
Alien 5 Toothy, acid blooded xenomorph terrorises various citizens of the galaxy, and quite possibly an old nemesis. Why we’re looking forward to this: After the somewhat lackluster Alien Resurrection and the unforgettable duo of Alien vs Predator films (we’ve tried, believe us!), you’d have thought that the world would have been done with the …
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