In this podcast Barbie Wilde talks about her success as the female cenobite in Hellraiser, her novel The Venus Complex, her collection The Voices of the Damned, the relationship between horror and erotica and much more. About Barbie Wilde As an actress, Barbie Wilde is best known for playing the Female Cenobite in Clive Barker’s classic …
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Film Review: Heir (2015)
“Heir’s ending is one that sticks firmly in the mind with a brave image of purely human horror, dismay and revulsion.” Director Richard Powell’s 14-minute short film Heir opens on a palpably ominous note. A lone man, Gordon, sits in a darkened room, lit only by the artificial light of his computer monitor. An email …
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This Is Horror Awards: Fiction Magazine of the Year
We announced public nominations for the fifth annual This Is Horror Awards earlier this week. The response from publishers and readers has been incredible, although one of the absent categories has been missed and mentioned by several readers. The category in question is the Magazine of the Year. Here’s why we dropped it and what …
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The Cutting Room – Friday the 13th: The Game
Friday the 13th: The Game is a third-person, asymmetrical multiplayer title where one player controls Jason Voorhees while the remaining seven control camp counsellors try to survive the night, all in the semi-open world of Camp Crystal Lake! It’s a classic horror fan’s dream, no shaky cam, no found footage — and you are at …
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Book Review: The Night Clock by Paul Meloy
“Meloy is a master at developing characters who feel real.” Although The Night Clock is Paul Meloy’s debut novel there is a real sense that his body of short fiction work has been building towards this accomplished novel which is by turn captivating, humorous, devastating, but ultimately uplifting. No prior knowledge of the author’s work …
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This Is Horror Awards 2015: Public Nominations Are Open
I can’t believe this is the fifth annual This Is Horror Awards. That sure has come around quickly and what an awful lot of fun we’ve had these past four years. Here are the This Is Horror Award categories this year. We’ve based them off your feedback and the most popular categories last year. Novel …
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Film Review: Pay The Ghost (2015)
“There’s a more than halfway decent movie here struggling to get out, it’s just buried under too much that lags and drags.” On paper, at least, Pay the Ghost has an impressive pedigree: in addition to the high quality source material in the shape of the excellent novella by Tim Lebbon, it’s directed by the …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 2 November 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: Revisiting The Running Man by Richard Chizmar Ramsey Campbell’s ‘Thirteen Novels on the Edge of Horror’ Winding Up the Dark Staircase: A Brief Survey of Haunted Houses On The Babadook, It Follows, …
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Grimmfest 2015
For horror fans up in the north of England, and arguably across the country Grimmfest is an unmissable line-up of some of the best upcoming and ‘ones to watch’ of the genre. This years event once again saw some of films biggest and best showcase of horror films from across the globe, including Manchester film …
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