“It all makes for a frustrating watch.” It is the year 2044 and solar storms have caused large swathes of Earth to become so radioactive that humanity has all but been wiped out. Millions of robots have been created by the company ROC to build the means of protecting those people who are left within …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/film-review-automata-2014/
In this podcast Geoff Brown talks about military horror, ghosts, haunted creative retreats, Resident Evil and more. About Geoff Brown Geoff Brown is an Australian writer and twice Australian Shadows Award finalist-editor raised in Melbourne’s gritty Western Suburbs. He is a trained nurse, and holds a Cert. IV in Professional Writing and Editing, as well as a …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-041-geoff-brown-on-military-horror-ghosts-haunted-creative-retreats-and-resident-evil/
Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Evil Eighties: The Killer Kids of Somebody Come and Play Unfriended and Horror’s Long tradition of Fearing New Tech Baddies in Books: Cthulhu, HP Lovecraft’s Tentacled Terror 10 Great South Korean Horror …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-horror-articles-27-april-2015/
Ramsey Campbell honoured British horror legend Ramsey Campbell has been awarded an honorary fellowship by Liverpool John Moores University for his outstanding contribution to literature. The Liverpool born author has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Stoker Awards and the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award in his long and distinguished career. Walter …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-up-week-ending-24-april/
“Trigger Warning contains some of the best stories that this Gaiman has written.” Neil Gaiman is a writer who needs no introduction, a writer whose work is as distinctive as any in speculative fiction. Most readers of his new collection, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, will come to it knowing roughly what to expect – …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-trigger-warning-by-neil-gaiman/
The Enfield Haunting August 1977. A family living in a council house in the Enfield area of London are subjected to bizarre and terrifying events that bear the hallmarks of poltergeist activity. A rookie paranormal researcher and an experienced but sceptical investigator join forces to get to the bottom of the mystery. Why we’re looking …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/the-cutting-room-the-enfield-haunting/
“An intimate, original and character-driven take on the post-apocalyptic genre” The eponymous characters of Carus & Mitch, from Oxford-based writer Tim Major, are two sisters living alone in a house somewhere in Northern Britain, having fled from an apocalyptic disaster. Each day is spent following a routine laid out by their deceased mother: collect the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-carus-mitch-by-tim-major/
“The underdeveloped sum of its parts falls considerably short of what promised to be an electrifying 86 minutes of meta-horror.” Intelligently sidestepping the mindless copycat fodder of atypical remakes, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon displays some refreshing originality with The Town That Dreaded Sundown in referencing both the 1976 original and the notorious string of real-life killings …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/film-review-the-town-that-dreaded-sundown-2014/
“The beauty of A Head Full of Ghosts is that there are a number of possible interpretations of the events and that the conclusions drawn by one reader may be very different to those drawn by another.” Those of a certain age will remember a brilliant, unnerving live television event that was broadcast by the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-a-head-full-of-ghosts-by-paul-tremblay/
Time for some more zombie children over here in the Terror Tots (naughty) corner, and as with 1980’s The Children, we’re talking undead kids with a difference. This time, it’s director J.S. Cardone’s 2006 effort, Wicked Little Things – also known as Zombies. Following the death of her husband, grieving Karen Tunney (Lori Heuring) discovers …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/terror-tots-wicked-little-things/
5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 November 2024 Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet…
Look Out For … All Your Friends are Here by M. Shaw "This latest release from M. Shaw collects their weird horror…
News Round-up Week Ending 29 November 2024 Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news…
News Round-up Week Ending 22 November 2024 Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news…
TIH 592: Brian Asman on Exploring Family in Good… In this podcast, Brian Asman talks about exploring family in…