World War Z is the long awaited, often delayed, zombie opus starring Brad Pitt. Rumours of on-set bust ups, budgetary wrangles and rewritten endings have been dominating the tabloids and genre media for months. The film is a loose adaptation of Max Brook’s novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. The …
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Paul Hyett’s debut as both a writer and director is set in a brothel house amidst the bloody Balkan warzone. Given Hyett’s special effects background one may have expected him to opt for a monster movie in his premiere directorial outing but instead he has delivered a deftly serious film where authenticity and sensitivity to …
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Alison Littlewood burst into the mainstream when her debut novel, A Cold Season, was selected as part of Richard and Judy’s 2012 Book Club and found itself in supermarket aisles and bookshop window displays. It was a supremely paced and engrossing book with an exemplary sense of atmosphere and location, but, Path of Needles is …
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If we here at This Is Horror composed our copy with quill and parchment or typewriter and paper, then the discarded attempts at reviewing The Ravenglass Eye would have required a fleet of bin lorries to transport them away. The novel provides a satisfying and gripping narrative but putting your finger on precisely why it …
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If you judged this latest novel from the master, Stephen King, solely on the originality and complexity of the murder mystery at the centre of its storyline, then your verdict would probably be along the lines of; “I’ve read better crime stories and this one was a little too obvious.” But, Stephen King’s finest works …
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One of the most praised and appreciated of all anthology horror films, Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath (I Tre Volti Della Paura in its native Italy) came about partly because of the huge success of AIP’s Tales of Terror (1960), which presented three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by Roger Corman. Sidney Salkow’s Twice …
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Like many great novels Habit cannot be easily placed into a neat genre box. It’s horror, it’s crime, it’s a portrait of urban decay and seedy subcultures, it’s black comedy and its unrelenting grim. Keep on reading…
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When Hammer Films revitalised and revolutionised cinematic gothic horror in the late 1950s, showing the rest of the world how to do it with its mix of bright red blood, beautiful women, and vibrant colour, it wasn’t long before the rest of the world caught on. In the US, American International Pictures, with quite a …
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Mythology is the theme for this issue of Midnight Echo, and it’s testament to the editors that the familiar and often overdone folklores are left out in favour of more obscure legends that will thrill, chill and enchant you. Keep on reading…
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Wes Craven made Deadly Blessing all the way back in 1981. If you don’t remember what American TV movies from the 1980s are like, then you’re fortunate. Generally – with a few honourable exceptions – they were dreadful affairs, usually thoroughly bowdlerised so that no one could possibly get offended about anything, and with soap …
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