“It really should have been a decent addition to the genre.” When sitting down to watch a slasher film from any decade, you shouldn’t expect to have your mind blown. What you should expect is blood, boobs, and bad acting. You see, while slasher films may not be wholly original thematically (often copy-and-pasting John Carpenter’s …
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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: Original versus Remake: The Amityville Horror Ten Things That Make Horror Films Unrealistic Rosemary’s Baby and the Politics of Women’s Bodies Six Things a Horror Game Needs Horror …
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Short Cuts to Hell announced FrightFest, Movie Mogul and Horror Channel have announced the six finalists of their 666 Short Cuts to Hell film competition. The six films are Six Degrees of (Limb) Separation, 6 Seconds To Die, 6 Shooter, 6th Sense, 6 Feet Under and Six Feet Under. The winning film will be revealed …
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Tomorrow a brand new breed of festival makes its mark on the genre world: Nine Worlds Geekfest. Originally a kickstarter, Nine Worlds was fully funded with an impressive 232% of its target. Nine Worlds takes place at the Radisson and Renaissance hotels near London Heathrow. The action kicks off on 9 August at 3pm and …
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan… does that sound good to you? Yeah, me neither. Unfortunately, it’s one of those all-too-true jokes that we know reaches its audience when it’s met with more winces than laughs. Considering where we’ve come as a society in just five short years, I …
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Worldwide, the biggest publisher of horror fiction and non-fiction through the years would have to be the United States. Although the genre received initial release through the Gothic writers of the UK, America then went on to claim the genre with writers such as HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. Comparative to Europe and the …
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“A great little alien home invasion thriller” Dark Skies is ‘from the producers of Sinister and Insidious’ according to the movie’s publicity. But then, one might add with a yawn, aren’t they all these days? But wait. Despite being put down by several reviewers as ‘Paranormal Activity with UFOS’, Dark Skies is actually rather better …
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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: Conjuring a Fright: What Makes a Great Horror Movie? 10 Triumphs of Low Budget Horror Film Making Sisters and Shivers: Women Who Make Horror Movies The History and …
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TV Stars to attend Grimmfest The organisers of Grimmfest 2013 have announced that TV stars Dominic Brunt (Emmerdale, Before Dawn), Paul Davis (Him Indoors, Beware the Moon) and Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones) will be attending the festival this year. Keep an eye on This Is Horror for more exciting Grimmfest news as it becomes …
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“The blackest of horror comedies!” A weird, quirky, curious and just plain odd little item from 1968 – if there is one film, UK cult DVD and blu-ray company, Arrow was created to release, it is Jack Hill’s Spider Baby. Never before afforded a release in the UK, it’s only fitting that the wait has been …
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