TIH 002: Before Dawn Review and An Interview with David Moody

Before Dawn

In this podcast we discuss and review Before Dawn, the debut feature-length film of Emmerdale star, Dominic Brunt. Following on from this we interview David Moody where we talk about Before Dawn, zombies, the Autumn series and the state of horror. We reference the likes of The End of Alice by AM Homes, Taken, The Seasoning …

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The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King’s Epic Fantasy by Bev Vincent

Stephen King started writing the first Dark Tower novel in 1970, although a mass market edition of the first novel in the ‘cycle’ did not appear until 1988. It quickly earned cult status, apparently concluding with the seventh novel in 2004. King returned to the story of Roland Deschain and his quest for the mysterious …

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5 Must Read Articles – 18 February 2013

John Carpenter

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: 10 Best Horror Scores In Cinematic History The Web Of Fear: A Brief History Of Spider Horror Sell-Out Or Not: John Carpenter The Alien Franchise In Videogames: A …

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News Round-up Week Ending 15 February

Word War Z collector’s edition Cemetery Dance Publications have announced a very special collector’s edition of Max Brooks’ genre classic zombie tome, World War Z. The book has fantastic new artwork and is available in a variety of different versions on the Cemetery Dance website. AMC is bringing The Terror After the success of The Walking Dead, AMC …

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Before Dawn (2012)

Before Dawn is self-confessed horror and zombie enthusiast, Dominic Brunt’s first foray into filmmaking. Dominic found fame as Emmerdale’s longstanding vet, Paddy Kirk and has stapled his horror credentials to his sleeve as regular horror host of Leeds Zombie Film Festival. As a stranger to neither the genre nor the screen Before Dawn has all …

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Happy Valentine’s Day: Horror Style

L-O-V-E, love. That fickle, mercurial, elusive beast. Guardian angel to some, white whale to others. Since the dawn of time, it’s been responsible for saving the souls and dashing the hopes of countless courters in equal measure, lifting some spirits to the heavens to breathe new life into their hosts, while smashing some dreams to …

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On Behalf of Neglected Night Creatures

It’s not that I hate vampires and zombies. Like many fans of dark fiction, I was once seduced by Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. I watched all of Buffy and some of Angel. The first season of True Blood was intriguing, as was its premise, though …

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Interview: Dominic Brunt

Dominic Brunt is best known for playing Paddy Kirk in ITV’s soap-opera Emmerdale. A self-confessed zombie addict, Dominic recently released Before Dawn a film which he directed, made and starred in alongside his wife and writer, Joanne Mitchell. Emma Robins caught up with Dominic to get his thoughts on all that is zombies, Before Dawn …

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Cthulhu Unbound 3 by Cody Goodfellow, Tim Curran, DL Snell, Brian M. Sammons and David Conyers

The third in the Cthulhu Unbound series from Permuted Press features four multifarious novellas based around Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, each with a unique take on the creatures and cosmicism that fans of the source material will appreciate. Keep on reading…

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Manborg

Those belonging to what one day may be known as the VHS generation (Betamax and V2000 never really got a look in) will hopefully remember with tremendous fondness coming home from the video shop back in those heady Be Kind Rewind days of the mid 1980s with the latest Charles Band Empire production. In the …

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