Recently, I had the chance to screen a student film that starred an old friend of mine, written and directed by a kid who’s about to graduate from my alma mater…well, not really my alma mater, since I’m a dropout, but you get the idea. It was shot digitally, like almost everything these days, with …
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A double dose of Grimm Grimm Up North kicked this week off with a bang by announcing that early bird passes for this year’s Grimmfest are now on sale for just £48.50. This price is only available until 8 August and will get you access to all Q&As and screenings across the weekend. The first …
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Thirty years later, Scanners still holds up well! The late seventies had seen a number of films involving telekinesis, most notably: Carrie, The Fury (both from Brian De Palma), the Aussie shocker Patrick, and The Medusa Touch. It must have seemed that Cronenberg’s Scanners, arriving a few years later, was a little late to the …
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Last month we began this outline of a weekend full of paranormal investigations at the abandoned Aradale Lunatic Asylum here in southern Australia. This column continues where the last left off… and moves right into the good part. Well, the more intense and interesting part, anyway. Previously: From Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May, …
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Each of the books discussed here features people with similar quirks: there are tortured artists (Diary, Haunted), attention-seekers (Choke, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor), experts in the many and varied uses of narcotics (Choke, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby – well, all of them, really). There are therapy junkies, sex addicts, fraudsters, trailer trash, delusionals, sacrificial women, …
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The Fixation by Mark Morris is the second in the Hammer Chillers series and carries on the superb standard set by the previous episode. The story focuses on Ian Hibbert and his crusade to rid his town of the plague of rubbish and anti-social behaviour to which it seems to be succumbing. Enlisting the help …
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The organisers of Autumn: Horror in the East convention are proud to announce that they will be screening Stephen Volk’s controversial BBC drama Ghostwatch at this year’s festival. Ghostwatch was shown once on British television and has never since been repeated due to a high volume of complaints that the BBC received after it aired. …
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Hammer Chillers is a brand new series of audio plays written by some of the brightest talents in the horror genre. The series kicks off with Stephen Gallagher’s tale, The Box. The Box centres around Stephen Dickens, expertly voiced by Lawrence Olivier Award-winning actor Con O’Neil, who is a safety instructor providing training for employees …
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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: Terror Before the Talkies: Horror Films of the Silent Era When The Thing Became John Carpenter’s The Thing Rick Hautala’s ‘The Horror…The Horror.’ Six Seedy Horror Films to Blight Your Eyes …
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Invisible Man appears on DVD Classic 70s television series The Invisible Man is released on DVD for the first time on 8 July. Starring David McCallum of The Man from U.N.C.L.E fame, the DVD will feature a full length pilot and twelve episodes. The Invisible Man will be released as a four DVD set. Dark …
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