Interview: Tim Cowles

Tim Cowles has spent the last seven years shooting short films for the games industry and directing live TV broadcasts. Backslasher is his first directed horror feature. Read more…

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Review: Basket Case Trilogy

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (the 1980s), films like Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case were the staple diet of pale-faced video shop junkies looking for their next fix of weird horror mayhem. But times have changed and instead of ultra-low-budget, lovingly crafted, intelligently written midnight movies, we now get bland, mass-produced …

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Interview: Sean Haitz and Chris Potter

Sean Haitz (producer and director) and Chris Potter (director of photography) are set to release their horror thriller, Big Top Evil, through their company, Faced Productions, late this year. They shot the entire film in famous circus town, Sarasota with volunteer actors on a budget of $20,000. Read more…

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The Christmas Ghost Story

So, the season of goodwill and peace to all mankind is nearly upon us. Let us conjure up in our minds a typical vision of Christmas, the one that we’re all meant to aspire to or the one that we’ve been sold over the years, depending on which outlook you cleave to. Read more…

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News Round-up Week Ending 16 November

Newcastle Winter Book Festival bites the dust Unfortunately Newcastle Winter Book Festival has fallen through due to a lack of funds. The majority of events are now cancelled including the horror event on Saturday 24 November which is a crying shame due to the excellent line up. Nunkie Theatre marches on Robert Lloyd Parry continues …

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Joseph D’Lacey, Pat Cadigan and Jonathan Green – 6pm Tonight, London

So, it’s finally here – the eagerly anticipated launch of award-winning eco-horror author, Joseph D’Lacey’s new take on the vampire genre, Blood Fugue. Join us at Blackwell’s Charing Cross for a night of horror curated by the horror enigma, Jasper Bark. This free event kicks-off at 6PM and will run until 8PM. There’s free blood …

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Interview: Jason Graves

Jason Graves is an award-winning American television, film and video game music composer. He is more recently known for his musical score for Dead Space, a survival horror-action video game. What was the first soundtrack or composition that you listened to and how did it affect you? The first thing I heard that really made …

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Religion Won’t Save You: Religious Tropes in Horror Films

Ask anyone to explain a link between religion and horror movies and you’ll undoubtedly hear a large number of replies citing the use of crosses to ward off vampires. But, the genre is so heavily laced with religious sub-plots and analogies, it goes much deeper than Van Helsing brandishing a representation of where Jesus was …

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Christmas Horror Live in Warwick: Friday 30 November

On Friday 30 November we have an incredibly special evening of horror planned for you. Ray Cluley, John Costello, Joseph D’Lacey and Alison Littlewood will all be reading at our Christmas Event running from 6-9PM in The Writer’s Room at The University of Warwick. This is a free but ticketed event – please e-mail Michael@ThisIsHorror.co.uk …

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Review: From Hell To Eternity by Thana Niveau

Ramsey Campbell, a man who needs no introduction unless you have been comatose since the mid-70s, kicks this collection off with an endorsement for the many talented female authors out there. In a world where positive discrimination is still largely present in literature, he lists Sarah Pinborough, Alison Littlewood, Caitlin Kiernan, and a host of …

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