Wes Craven made Deadly Blessing all the way back in 1981. If you don’t remember what American TV movies from the 1980s are like, then you’re fortunate. Generally – with a few honourable exceptions – they were dreadful affairs, usually thoroughly bowdlerised so that no one could possibly get offended about anything, and with soap …
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News Round-up Week Ending 7 June
New books from Gray Friar Press Gray Friar Press have announced two new titles are now available to buy on their website. First is the Paul Finch edited Terror Tales of London featuring stories from Adam Nevill, Nina Allan and Mark Morris amongst others. Secondly is The Condemned by This Is Horror’s political malcontent Simon Bestwick. The Condemned is …
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Graham Joyce reads from Memoirs of a Master Forger
Graham Joyce reads from Memoirs of a Master Forger at The University of Warwick as part of The Fox by Conrad Williams launch event. The event is presented by This Is Horror podcast co-host, John Costello. The event took place in The Writer’s Room alongside Conrad Williams and V.H. Leslie. Fans of Graham Joyce will …
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Joseph D’Lacey, Adam Nevill and Jasper Bark launch Roadkill at Coventry Central Library
After changing venue (details in the link) for our event this Saturday we thought it would be a good idea to confirm the details for our fabulous Roadkill launch event. Saturday June 8, 2013 sees the launch of the fourth This Is Horror chapbook, Roadkill by Joseph D’Lacey. To celebrate what will mark the final …
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Change of venue: Joseph D’Lacey, Adam Nevill and Jasper Bark live at Coventry Central Library
As fans of our Facebook page may have already noticed Saturday’s fantastic launch event for Roadkill by Joseph D’Lacey featuring award-winning authors Adam Nevill and Jasper Bark will now be taking place at Coventry Central Library and NOT Waterstone’s. The venue is on the same street – Smithford Way – and is in the city …
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Dead End Drive-In
The phenomenal success of George Miller’s Australian post-apocalyptic science fiction thrillers Mad Max (1979) and its sequel Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior in the US) subsequently caused fall out of its own in the form of numerous rip-offs and imitations that all attempted to cash in on those movies’ heady mix of violence, action …
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Scanners II: The New Order
Arriving a good ten years after Cronenberg’s original, Scanners II is probably a film that no one expected or even wanted. None of the original cast return, and the single connection to that first film (revealed about halfway in) feels almost like an afterthought. Keep on reading…
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 3 June 2013
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: The New French Extremity: An Endeavour into Excessive Violence Set Visit Report: Five Things We Learned About Insidious Chapter 2 The Biggest Reasons Why Faeries Are Evil A Point of View …
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