It’s a question we’ve been asked several times since the author of Roadkill removed himself from all forms of social media a few months back. Suspected – at first – of having finally fallen victim to a fatal Jasper Bark attack, we were relieved to find out that Joseph is alive and well. And finally …
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Solaris to publish Stourton Solaris are pleased to announce that they will be publishing Ivo Stourton’s debut genre novel The Happier Dead in 2014.The story is set in a futuristic London where an exclusive health spa hides dark secrets… Laird Barron caught in the Undertow Undertow Publications have announced that Laird Barron, author of The …
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Exactly what UK fans of The Brood have been waiting for! At last! David Cronenberg’s classic 1979 body horror picture (his third after having made Shivers and Rabid) receives the treatment it deserves on UK blu-ray and DVD. It’s been a long time coming but hopefully, as this review will reveal, it’s been worth the …
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A fun and entertaining black comedy! The plot of this story is fairly simplistic, and the characters are sketched in pretty broad strokes – and rather similar to the mother and son serial killers from the TV series Psychoville (right down to the son’s Harry H. Corbett accent) – but that doesn’t detract from some …
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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: Digging into Horror’s Final Girl Trope Clive Barker in Comics Part V: IDW and The Thief of Always The 10 Greatest Giant Monster Movies of All Time French …
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A party disc for slasher fans! The slasher film has its roots in movies of the 60s and 70s. It really came into its own, however, in the 80s. That was the time that everyone and their dog was running around the woods making movies in which a masked, often speechless maniac pursued the unwise, …
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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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