Energy drinks at the ready, it’s time for the horror faithful to catch yet another crop of horror and genre premieres on day three of Film Four FrightFest 2015. On the cards this time around – heavy metal bands takes on rampaging demonic hordes in Deathgasm, Ben Cresciman inventively explores madness with Sun Choke, a dysfunctional …
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Akira Yamaoka Announces Silent Hill Live Performances Akira Yamaoka, the man behind the legendary musical score to Silent Hill has announced that he will be performing the score live throughout tour of the UK this October. Dates include performances in London, Manchester, Southampton, Cardiff and Bristol. Tickets are on sale right now and are available …
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After an outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap several settlers, including the wife of a local rancher. Despite his injured leg the rancher joins a small rescue party with the sheriff, his aging deputy and a strong-willed gunslinger. What follows is a …
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In this podcast John C. Foster talks about the rules of writing, writer’s block and full-time writing. About John C. Foster John C. Foster was born in Sleepy Hollow, NY, and has been afraid of the dark for as long as he can remember. A writer of thrillers and dark fiction, Foster was raised in the …
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Look Out For… The Streets by Robert Dunbar “Dunbar shows considerable skill in making us care for his broken and fallible characters” Escaping horrors that prowl the back alleys of a nameless city, a group of young people find themselves trapped in a decrepit asylum … where unspeakable evil awaits them. Do the streets offer …
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Day two of Film Four FrightFest 2015 sees the London film festival kicking into full gear, and as usual there is a bumper card of new horror and genre flicks to choose from across the main screens and three discovery screens. Read below to see what we made of The Diabolical, Hellions, AAAAAAAAH!, Jeruzalem and …
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It’s quite amazing just how quickly Film Four FrightFest seems to come around every year. Now in its sixteenth year, the London based film festival is still going from strength to strength, and this year it proved to be bigger than ever, boasting an incredible number of horror and genre premieres, previews and retrospectives from …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? Why I Love 80s Horror: Part One – VHS Covers Why Wes Craven Mattered to Horror Fans Something Rotten ‘The Strain’: Why FX’s Vampire-Apocalypse …
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Wes Craven Dies Aged 76 Maestro horror film director Wes Craven has passed way on Sunday 30 August at the age of 76 following a battle with brain cancer. The respected director was undoubtedly best known as the creator of the A Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream series of films, but he was also …
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Some of you may have read a certain online Guardian article recently, and, like me, I’m sure many of you fell into the trap of this obvious bit of trolling, expressing anger and dismay at such a joyless statement about the supposed worth of reading some books over others. The fact that the online Guardian …
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