Welcome to Must Read Horror, the place to find the best horror articles of the week. Once again we’ve searched the internet for interesting and notable articles for your reading pleasure. This week: Confessions of a Film Critic: She Hates Horror Do Movies Give Ghosts a Bad Name? Kim Newman’s Top 5 Underrated 20th Century …
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“Unsettling visuals and potent atmospherics.” Outpost 11 is a very strange film. No two ways about it. Imagine a sort of snowbound, steampunk version of Sidney Lumet’s The Hill where David Lynch took over the director’s chair, and you’re getting there. At the very least you’ll have some idea as to whether or not you …
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Manchester lights The Wicker Man Grimmfest are delighted to announce a special screening of Robin Hardy’s 1973 classic film The Wicker Man as part of this year’s festival. The screening is to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film being released and will feature a Q&A with Robin Hardy himself. The screening takes place on …
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Matt Leyshon is the author of The Function Room: The Kollection. He lives in Blackpool with his wife and cats. What first attracted you to horror writing? I have enjoyed the macabre for as long as I can remember. I was an invisible toddler who scared house guests with a plastic bat. I even learned …
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Tomorrow morning at 8:40am our News Editor, Dan Howarth will be on the BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast Show with Nicky Campbell and Rachel Burden. Dan will be talking about whether people have become less affected by horror films over the years. You can listen to BBC Radio 5 Live here. If you want to …
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“A step in the right direction with an after-credit sequence you do not want to miss.” Everyone’s favourite copper-topped doll is back for more murder and hijinks. When a strange package arrives at Nica’s door, she gladly signs for it and takes it into the house. What’s in the box? That’s right: Chucky, and this …
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“Gruesome, visceral, blackly funny and harrowing!” For those unfamiliar with the legend, Sawney Bean was a possibly-mythical, possibly-real Scottish cannibal who, along with his wife,and raised a family of equally murderous children and (via incest) grandchildren. They lived in a cave and preyed on unwary travellers, who they robbed, killed and ate. Eventually they …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror, the place to find the best horror articles of the week. Once again we’ve searched the internet for interesting and notable articles for your reading pleasure. This week: Where Have All of the Good Horror Themes Gone? War May Lead to Increase in Zombie Movie Production Bad Dads: Ten of …
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The Machine Gun Woman comes to your screens Bring Me The Head of the Machine Gun Woman has been announced on DVD. This trashy grindhouse flick will be released in cinemas on 27 September and then on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD on 7 October 2013. Zombies attack your ears Telos Publishing have announced that Neil …
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It’s been a few months since our last live event but we rather think this one is more than worth the wait. Introducing an afternoon with three of the finest writers in the UK, Howard Linskey, Alison Littlewood and Sarah Pinborough, hosted by the charismatic voice of horror, Mr. Jasper Bark. Taking place on Saturday …
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