“Taken on its own merits it’s difficult to fault!” Who would have thought that one of the most eagerly anticipated console releases of 2013 would be in the survival horror genre? With its big franchises, Resident Evil and Silent Hill, either morphing into steroid-infused blast-fests or being passed from developer to developer in an effort …
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“The prose is sparse, the narrative voice is dark, and the journey is without remorse.” Noir fiction is, according to Wiki, a literary genre closely tied to hardboiled fiction, with the main difference being the protagonist is not a detective, but a victim, a suspect, or, more commonly, a perpetrator or criminal. Tom Piccirilli’s Every …
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Like Tim Burton’s recent reworking of that cult afternoon television soap Dark Shadows, Twixt appears to exist purely for the amusement of its director. Unlike Burton’s folly, it hasn’t got Johnny Depp heading up a raft of big names that seems to guarantee a return at the box office these days. It’s difficult to fathom …
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“A mixed bag that will entertain die hard genre fans!” This imposing trade paperback anthology from Jo Fletcher Books (St. Martin’s Press in the US) boasts an impressive roster of international talent, including Stephen King, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Richard Christian Matheson, Michael Marshall Smith and Lisa Tuttle. Here rubbing shoulders are …
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Exactly what UK fans of The Brood have been waiting for! At last! David Cronenberg’s classic 1979 body horror picture (his third after having made Shivers and Rabid) receives the treatment it deserves on UK blu-ray and DVD. It’s been a long time coming but hopefully, as this review will reveal, it’s been worth the …
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A fun and entertaining black comedy! The plot of this story is fairly simplistic, and the characters are sketched in pretty broad strokes – and rather similar to the mother and son serial killers from the TV series Psychoville (right down to the son’s Harry H. Corbett accent) – but that doesn’t detract from some …
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A party disc for slasher fans! The slasher film has its roots in movies of the 60s and 70s. It really came into its own, however, in the 80s. That was the time that everyone and their dog was running around the woods making movies in which a masked, often speechless maniac pursued the unwise, …
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Thirty years later, Scanners still holds up well! The late seventies had seen a number of films involving telekinesis, most notably: Carrie, The Fury (both from Brian De Palma), the Aussie shocker Patrick, and The Medusa Touch. It must have seemed that Cronenberg’s Scanners, arriving a few years later, was a little late to the …
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The Fixation by Mark Morris is the second in the Hammer Chillers series and carries on the superb standard set by the previous episode. The story focuses on Ian Hibbert and his crusade to rid his town of the plague of rubbish and anti-social behaviour to which it seems to be succumbing. Enlisting the help …
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Hammer Chillers is a brand new series of audio plays written by some of the brightest talents in the horror genre. The series kicks off with Stephen Gallagher’s tale, The Box. The Box centres around Stephen Dickens, expertly voiced by Lawrence Olivier Award-winning actor Con O’Neil, who is a safety instructor providing training for employees …
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