TIH 001: Chained Review and An Interview with Jennifer Lynch

In this podcast we discuss Chained, directed by Jennifer Lynch and starring Vincent D’Onofrio, Julia Ormond and Eamon Farren. The discussion is followed by an interview with Jennifer Lynch. Listen to the remastered version of our conversation with Jennifer Lynch here.  Show notes [1:50] Rundown of Chained [5:11] Bob’s attachment to Rabbit [6:30] Steering away …

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Review: Chained

Chained is an early contender for most violent film of the year and it owes much of this to what happens off- rather than on-camera. Throughout Jennifer Lynch’s latest film there is a sense of foreboding and an ominous thread of terror. Viewers will find themselves on the edge of their seat, uneasy and waiting …

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Interview: Jennifer Lynch

Jennifer Lynch’s brand new film Chained is out on February 4, 2013 and it’s also the subject of the premiere episode of the This Is Horror podcast. For those of you who can’t wait for the podcast or aren’t such a fan of the audio format, here’s our interview with Jennifer. Keep on reading…

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News Round-up Week Ending 1 February

Resident Evil Revelations comes to home consoles Capcom have confirmed that Resident Evil Revelations, a game originally released on Nintendo 3DS, will be released on Xbox 360, Playstation3, WiiU and PC in May. The game fills in events between Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5, it also features returning favourites Chris Redfield and Jill …

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Joe Hill receives two This Is Horror Awards

Joe Hill

Yesterday we announced the winners of the This Is Horror Awards 2012. Joe Hill picked up awards for Comic of the Year – Locke and Key with Gabriel Rodriguez – and Short Fiction of the Year – In The Tall Grass with Stephen King. A delighted Joe had this to say: I’m terrifically happy to see In …

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This Is Horror Awards 2012: The Winners

It’s finally time to unveil the winners in this year’s This Is Horror Awards. Click through to find out who the winners are in each category in the This Is Horror Awards 2012. Novel of the Year Film of the Year TV Series of the Year Comic of the Year Short Story Collection of the …

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Interview: Carole Johnstone

What first attracted you to horror writing? No idea; I assume that I was just born this way. Or it might have been my dad’s fault: his bed time stories were old Scottish poems about ghosts and witches. When I was twelve, I asked for and got the collected short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. …

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Review: Dangerous Gifts by Gaie Sebold

Gaie Sebold’s Babylon Steel was one of the most enjoyable debuts of 2012. The follow-up, Dangerous Gifts, begins once more in the anything-goes city-state of Scalentine, where Babylon Steel, sometime sword-for-hire, runs (and occasionally works in) the city’s best brothel, the Red Lantern. Recruited to bodyguard a young heiress, Enthemmerlee, Babylon travels to nearby Incandress, …

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Review: High Moor by Graeme Reynolds

If High Moor were a Premier League football match it would be a Monday Night Special between two mid-table sides that ends in a 4-4 draw or a 6-3 win; it’s not the beautiful game played out by twenty-two players at the height of their technical abilities but, by god, it’s thoroughly entertaining. The bulk …

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Who invented horror comics?

I was a guest on James DC’s excellent Atomic Bark show on Resonance FM recently. The theme of the show was EC and pre-code horror comics – that wonderful cavalcade of quickly drawn, anonymously written and often badly printed horror comics that flourished for five brief years in the 1950s before the creation of the …

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