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: Carrie Face-Off: Remake Vs. Original 11 Horror Movies That Are Scary Because of What They Say About Humanity Why John Carpenter is the Most Underrated Filmmaker of Our Time Phantasmagorical Ponderings: …
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We caught up with the most decorated man in horror fiction, Wayne Simmons, to talk about the forthcoming Scardiff. For more information please visit the Scardiff 2013 website. What is Scardiff festival and how is it different to other conventions? Scardiff is Cardiff’s first horror expo; a one day fan con, taking place at the Mercure …
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“Trashy – delivered in style and buckets of bullets!” Essentially, you could sum this up with the tag-line “Grindhouse meets Grand Theft Auto”. Che, played by Jorge Alis, is a Chilean gangster feared by all – except that is, the machine gun woman, the unbelievably sexy Fernanda Urrejola who is out to kill him …
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Horror reading in Birmingham This Is Horror event host Jasper Bark will be present at a horror reading in Birmingham at Halloween. The event will also feature readings from Dave Jeffery and Adrian Middleton. The event will run from 7pm until late at The Pat Kavanaugh, Moseley, Birmingham. Tickets are £3 and are available from …
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“It’s so bizarre it actually works!” Reg and Lindsay Morgan run a small organic bone fertiliser company in the outback. Business is thriving thanks to a special ingredient: human bodies. When Reg picks up three youngsters on their way to a music festival, it’s clear they’re not going to make it. Like the tonally similar …
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“An inconsistent start to the Best British Fantasy series which features some blistering dark highlights and mediocre filler.” The Best British Fantasy 2013 is a collection edited by Steve Haynes and published by Salt. Yet despite the ‘fantasy’ title, both the content and editor’s introduction indicate a far broader stroke of stories. There are plans …
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I recently had the opportunity to watch David Lynch’s Eraserhead on Blu-ray. This was an especially momentous occasion, as I hadn’t seen this quite astounding surrealist nightmare of a film for many years. It’s a remarkable piece – definitely one of the strangest and most beguiling movies ever made, and I feel as if …
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“One of the best Lovecraft-inspired anthologies ever!” For the uninitiated, Fedogan & Bremer is a small press outfit that during the 1990s and 2000s rivalled Arkham House, both in the quality of the books it produced and the kind of writers it published. Beautiful hardcover volumes containing the reprinted work of the likes of Hugh …
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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: What Stephen King Isn’t Seven Prom Dates From Hell Who Are Almost as Scary as Carrie 5 Scary Comics to Suit Every Predilection Assessing James Wan Horror Science: …
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“As an answer to ‘Whatever happened to Danny from The Shining?’ it more than satisfies.” Sequels come with certain pre-conceptions, particularly in cases where the original has had a sustained period of success and is one of the defining classics of a whole genre. Add to the mix that the author is a worldwide bestseller …
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