The found footage film is the cinematic equivalent of the abandoned manuscript or the notebook found in a deserted house. It’s an effective, potentially powerful way to add verisimilitude to a story (and get around holes in the budget), as The Blair Witch Project showed so effectively back in 1999, so it’s unsurprising that the last decade …
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News Round-up Week Ending 15 March
World Fantasy Convention carries on growing New names and guests at World Fantasy Convention 2013 in Brighton, UK carry on being announced. The most recent name to be added is that of Horns author Joe Hill. World Fantasy Convention will also feature Richard Matheson and This Is Horror favourite Robert Lloyd Parry as M.R. James. Further …
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Barbie Wilde
Barbie Wilde is best known as the Female Cenobite in Clive Barker’s classic cult horror movie Hellbound: Hellraiser II, as well as appearing in Death Wish III and Grizzly II: The Concert. She’s had four short horror stories published in four different anthologies over the last few years. In November 2012, Comet Press published Barbie’s first dark crime novel, The …
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A Dreadful Fear of Clichés
I have a confession. There are a few (well, many) horror tropes that I just cannot stomach at all. Not because they’re cliché – although, of course, they are – but because there’s something about them that’s actually, fundamentally, terrifying. Keep on reading…
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Death’s Apprentice: A Grimm City Novel by K.W.Jeter and Gareth Jefferson Jones
The Brothers Grimm are responsible for some of the most terrifying fairytales ever committed to paper. Disney has also played a part in bringing them to the attention of children the world over, albeit in toned-down versions peppered with musical numbers and dancing forest-animals. Death’s Apprentice: A Grimm City Novel does the exact opposite, combining the original …
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Django Prepare A Coffin
Sergio Corbucci’s Django (1966) is one of the all-time great spaghetti westerns. A film grimmer in tone than Sergio Leone’s classic Man With No Name trilogy, Corbucci’s film distinguished itself by being set in the muddiest, coldest, most forbidding town to be seen in a western for many a year; by set pieces that were as outlandish and atmospheric …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles – 12 March 2013
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: 5 Troma Films Every Horror Fan Must See In Defense Of Alien 3 Stealth Is Hanging Around, But Can Survival Horror Make A Comeback? John Carpenter’s The Fog: …
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TIH 004: Joseph D’Lacey on Splinters, Planning and Recurring Themes
In this podcast Michael Wilson and John Costello interview Joseph D’Lacey with a particular focus on his short story collection from Timeline Books, Splinters. Topics [0:33] Interview with Joseph D’Lacey [0:55] The selection process and how Splinters came to be [2:49] Splinters and the personal [4:00] Altar Girl [8:00] To plan or not to plan [9:00] The editing of the …
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Grimmfest Reviews: Snowtown & Sleep Tight
On February 21, Simon Bestwick was at the Dancehouse Theatre to catch the Grimmfest double bill of Snowtown and Sleep Tight. Today, Simon brings you his thoughts on both horror films. Snowtown review Sleep Tight review
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Ashlee Scheuerman
Living in a nest of creativity in Western Australia, Ashlee shares her space with the husband and other family, human and animal alike. Her stories are usually fantastical with a darker element, since faeries are fun and there’s nothing like a story with a good sense of tragedy. Ashlee has been writing for over a …
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