SATURDAY Video Nasties: Draconian Days Saturday morning started with Video Nasties: Draconian Days, Jake West’s follow-up to his 2010 documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape, which covered the original video nasties scare of the early 1980s. The sequel takes us from the mid-eighties all the way up to 1999, taking in the rise …
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“A worthy addition to the themed anthology lexicon.” No Monsters Allowed editor Alex Davis has taken exception to the proliferation of zombies and vampires in genre and declared there will be no room for such well-worn tropes within his anthology. The title, as well as being a mission statement of sorts, is ironic; the stories …
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With eleven films showing over just two days, FrightFest Glasgow is less gruelling than its southern counterpart, but only just. Not that any of the several hundred fans who gathered at the Glasgow Film Theatre on Friday 28 February and Saturday 1 March would complain. Along with the primary festival in London, and various all-nighters …
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Welcome to this week’s edition of Must Read Horror, your one-stop shop for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: Horror Cinema’s Scariest Killer Scarecrows Our Deepest Insecurities Served Up on a Plate Hannibal’s Feminist Take on Horror Joseph D’Lacey on Myth, the Written Word, and Mass Hallucination Shallow and Vacuous: …
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Horror Channel app generates Nightmares Horror Channel have launched their own iOS app that will terrorise users in their sleep. The app features 3 original stories by K.R. Griffiths and a number of other stories. Users listen to the app before bed and when they fall asleep the app influences their sleep with subtle sounds …
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The winner of our Zombie Flesh Eaters competition, Disconnect by L.R. Bonehill. Illustrated by Nick Gucker. Emily looked up from the glowing screen of her phone just in time to register the dark shape coming towards her. One foot stretched out into the grime-spattered street as the van grumbled past, its rusted wheels edging dangerously …
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This month, I am going to be indulging in some unabashed nostalgia. Why? I recently reached the grand old age of 51 and, as these things sometimes do, it prompted me to look back to my childhood and youth, to reminisce about the supposed joys of that era. Whilst I would never wish to go …
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“Valancourt should be congratulated for bringing this back into print!” In his introduction to this welcome new edition of Stephen Gilbert’s Ratman’s Notebooks, Kim Newman makes the bold claim that it is this book that effectively launched a new era in horror fiction, effectively kick-starting the careers of both Stephen King and James Herbert. Had …
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Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: NIGHTMARE ROYALE #11: Introducing “WOMEN IN HORROR CENTURY” 10 Celebrities You Forgot Were in Horror Films The Hate Outdoors On the Horror and Allure of Hannibal Lecter Kids …
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Horror to be Invoked on DVD Childhood trauma and evil come home to roost in the chilling film, The Invoking. After being raised by foster parents, Sam takes her friends on a trip to her original childhood home, only to find everything is not quite how she remembers… The film is available on DVD on …
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