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The Cutting Room: The Funhouse Massacre

The Funhouse Massacre Six of the world’s scariest psychopaths escape from a local asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween funhouse, whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror. Why we’re looking forward to this: Two words. Robert Englund. Though Elm Street is a long way …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 13 April 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: A Short History of Bigfoot in the Movies Returning to The Long Walk by Ed Gorman The Doors to Horror The Test of Time: The Dead Zone (1983) …

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The Cutting Room: Shed of the Dead

Shed of the Dead A group of folk find themselves in the middle of an urban zombie apocalypse, and come together in the titular shed for a spot of horror comedy. Why we’re looking forward to this: Okay, the synopsis may not sound like the most exciting thing that you’ve read all day, and the …

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Look Out For… The Silence by Tim Lebbon and Dark Detectives

Look Out For… The Silence by Tim Lebbon “The creatures in The Silence are bound to fascinate and terrify in equal measure.”  In the darkness of a underground cave system, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed… Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive and destroy. To …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 April 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: Evil Eighties: The Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell Strange Tales: An Appreciation of Rick Baker Seeing isn’t Always Believing: Why Horror Podcasts are Going Viral Gene …

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Terror Tots: Bloody Birthday

On this installment of Terror Tots – the series in which we take a look at some of filmdom’s most obscure and disturbing killer kids – we’re opening the case for Ed Hunt’s 1981 shocker Bloody Birthday. In 1970, three children are simultaneously born to different mothers, under the ominous shade of a solar eclipse. Fast forward …

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Look Out For… Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones and Strange Tales V

Look Out For… Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones “A collection of interlinked short stories set in the mysterious town of Longcroft, these are strange and compelling tales.” Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones, publisher and editor at award-nominated Spectral Press, is a series of connected short fiction stories, semi-autobiographical in nature, set in the imaginary town …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 30 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: 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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