Category: Reviews

Entity and I Didn’t Come Here To Die

  • April 23, 2013

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Last month Simon Bestwick caught Entity and I Didn’t Come Here To Die as part of Grimm Up North’s ongoing double horror bill evenings. Find out what he thought to both. Review: Entity Review: I Didn’t Come Here to Die

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Review: NOS4R2 (NOS4A2) by Joe Hill

  • April 23, 2013

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NOS4R2 is the latest book in the exciting and increasingly impressive career of Joe Hill, building on the success of his previous novels, Heart-Shaped Box and Horns. Keep on reading…

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Review: Lisa and the Devil

  • April 23, 2013

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Thought by many to be Mario Bava’s most personal film, Lisa and the Devil came about because of the success of the director’s previous feature, Baron Blood (forthcoming from Arrow Films). Delighted with how well that film had done, Baron Blood’s producer, Alfred Leone, gave Bava carte blanche for the director to make whatever he …

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247 Degrees Fahrenheit and Maniac Review

  • April 19, 2013

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Simon Bestwick was on hand to check out a recent Grimm Up North double bill featuring 247 Degrees Fahrenheit and the remake of Maniac, starring Elijah Wood. Find out his verdict below. And if you love horror cinema then you really should get yourself over to The Dancehouse tomorrow for the Northern England premiere of …

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Let’s Drink to the Dead by Simon Bestwick

  • April 16, 2013

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Let’s Drink to the Dead is a must read for anyone who enjoyed Simon Bestwick’s second novel, The Faceless. Set in the same Lancashire town of Kempforth, it features three interconnected stories that create a prequel to the events of the novel. Keep on reading…

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Among The Dead by Timothy W. Long

  • April 5, 2013

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The second book in Timothy W Long’s trilogy picks up exactly where the first left off. It’s been a few days since an inexplicable virus began transforming people into flesh-hungry deaders. The majority of the survivors are living as refugees in what was once a very popular football stadium. The story follows several groups as …

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Film review: Any Minute Now

  • April 1, 2013

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In an era of mega-budget movie-making, where films can cost upwards of $100 million and sometimes $200 million to make, it’s perhaps not surprising that the horror genre has seen a considerable surge in micro-budgeted productions. These are films produced for a few pennies, made in people’s homes and back gardens (and often looking like …

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Zombie Flesh Eaters

  • April 1, 2013

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An abandoned yacht floats into New York waters prompting the Harbour Patrol to investigate. They find a squalid, cramped interior aboard the yacht, filled with rotting food and a towering, corpulent walking corpse that takes a bite out of one of the Patrol Guards before toppling into the water when the other guard unloads his …

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Silent Hill: Revelation

  • March 25, 2013

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The history regarding film adaptions of video games is not particularly littered with success stories. However, as the Resident Evil series will convey, critical maulings don’t always match up with the box office. The good news with the original Silent Hill film is that it tried to stick close to its roots and convey a creepy atmosphere. Silent Hill: Revelation seems …

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Dracula (1958)

  • March 25, 2013

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If you don’t already know the story in this version of Dracula – and shame on you if you don’t – we’ll recap quickly. When Dr Van Helsing (Cushing) discovers that his friend Jonathan Harker has been bitten by Count Dracula (Lee) and turned into a vampire, he resolves to tracking down the Count and …

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