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The Cabin in the Woods – Review

April 9, 2012
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Stuck in release hell since filming wrapped in 2009 (due to MGM going bankrupt), 2012 will finally see the liberation of Cabin in the Woods, the love letter to horror from Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumni Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon, onto the big screen. Review: The Cabin in the Woods

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Hollywood Monster by Robert Englund

April 6, 2012
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The chances are, if you’re a horror fan, then you’ll know who Robert Englund is. The original – and best – incarnation of Freddy Krueger, Englund rose to prominence in the 1984 Nightmare on Elm Street film directed by Wes Craven and is still working today (mostly on very low-budget horror films) and he’s also …

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An in-depth look at chainsaw classic Pieces

April 5, 2012
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In 1983, I was fourteen years old and, as much as my mates and I talked about horror films and wished we could get hold of Betamax copies of The Evil Dead or The Entity, the fact is that the two films I most wanted to see that summer were Return of the Jedi and …

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Fiction Writers: Readers will judge a book by its cover

April 4, 2012
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In our latest instalment of Re(a)d-Letter Day, Simon Marshall-Jones gets to grips with the importance of a good book cover. Fiction Writers: Readers will judge a book by its cover

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Film Review: The Tapes

April 3, 2012
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The Tapes is another pick from the never-ending slew of found footage films, although this one is British and tries to include a different slant on the whole theme. Review: The Tapes

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Review: Rough Music by Simon Kurt Unsworth

April 3, 2012
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Rough Music by Simon Kurt Unsworth is the latest offering from renowned small press Spectral Press. Rough Music is Spectral’s first release of 2012 and effortlessly maintains the high standards set since its inception. Rough Music by Simon Kurt Unsworth

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Meet The Writer: James Brogden

April 2, 2012
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What first attracted you to horror writing? An 80s childhood in rural Tasmania effectively forced me to develop an imaginary world to escape into or go insane. My parents got me into fantasy and science fiction early on – from Dad, The Lord of the Rings, from Mum, the books of John Wyndham – but …

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Snowtown (2011)

March 30, 2012
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Between August 1992 and May 1999, eleven people were murdered by John Justin Bunting and his accomplices in Southern Australia (a twelfth charge was dropped due to lack of evidence). The bodies were found stored inside barrels of acid located in a former bank building in Snowtown, South Australia on 20 May 1999. Four people, …