Painting the Town RED… Paul Kane
Why dark fairy tales? I’ve been asked this a lot over the course of the past year, seeing as I had a collection of horror fairy tales out back in May – Kane’s Scary Tales…
Why dark fairy tales? I’ve been asked this a lot over the course of the past year, seeing as I had a collection of horror fairy tales out back in May – Kane’s Scary Tales…
Ten years ago, Steve Niles (creator and writer of 30 Days of Night) and Bernie Wrightson (co-creator and artist of Swamp Thing) joined forces to create a comics series like no other! Now, Dark Horse is celebrating…
Equal parts Saw, Texas Chainsaw re-up, and various other early 2000s horror remakes, Daddy’s Girl is the story of a teenage girl trapped with her murderous, psychotic stepfather, after her mother commits suicide. Costas Mandylor…
I love the novella format. I think it is almost the perfect length for many tales. Long enough to really develop the stories and characters, not so long that it wears out its welcome and…
As the first film to be released under the FRIGHTFEST PRESENTS header, The Dark is a moody, atmospheric horror, with enough squish to hold the attention of gore fans, and something gentle and tender for…
It has come to my attention that the general feelings surrounding the new sequel to 2008’s The Strangers are largely negative. I’ve seen it called predictable, typical, victim to a plotline teeming with ‘baffling lapses…
A haunted house movie with a difference. Director Peter Medak’s The Changeling is a classic of the horror genre, originally released in 1980 and starring the inimitable George C. Scott, Trish Van de Vere and…
Joe Golem, the more than human private eye who with the help of his mentor, the impossibly old, Simon Church investigates the strange, weird and downright odd in the semi-submerged New York of the nineteen…
Xtro was first released in 1982, at the height of the ‘video nasty’ furore, when the likes of that silly cow Mary Whitehouse were campaigning to preserve the moral fibre of our country. There were…
We’ve all read books of fairy tales and watched movies about them on TV. Some were Disney versions that took much of the darkness out of the original stories in order to mass market them….
I like to drop a famous quote in to my reviews. It makes me feel smarter than I probably am and serves to bring the review together a bit more, so this will be no…
The City of the Dead – Written by George Baxt & Milton Subotsky. Directed by John Moxey & Starring Patricia Jessell (Elizabeth Selwyn/Mrs Newless), Christopher Lee (Alan Driscoll), Venetia Stevenson (Nan Barlow), Betta St John…