With an introduction quoting from both Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Eric Morecambe, it\’s quite apparent that The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack is going to be a sea shanty of black humour. It\’s not…
Big Finish Classics: The Island of Dr Moreau – Starring Ronald Pickup, John Heffernan, Enzo Cilenti, John Banks, David Shaw-Parker, Tom Bentinck & Daniel Goode. Written by H.G. Wells & Dramatised & Directed by Ken…
Whether you agree with the press release blurb, that The Amityville Horror is ‘one of the best horror films ever made’, really depends upon how old you were when you first saw it. If you…
First of all, what do you honestly expect when viewing a video nasty from 1982 called Pieces? Okay, so it didn’t make the official video nasty list, but it easily could have, such is the…
Having spent the last ninety minutes being transfixed and left reeling by Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are the Flesh, I feel like I’m trapped just under the surface of an ice bound lake; my lungs…
“…She was also called Sugarplum, a nick-name given her by virile townsmen, who had tasted her fruit and found it sweet…” Ye gods, they got my juices flowing, lines like that, back when I were…
When I first saw the title of this book I was a bit leery. Will a literary tribute to a band be a bunch of essays written by people who were influenced by their music?…
After a spate of disappearances, a local police captain is forced to take matters into his own hands to uncover a grisly cover-up involving the cities underground population in this infamous cult horror flick. For…
The Initiation can’t seem to decide whether it wants to be a balls-to-the-wall slasher or a psychological drama about suppressed memories and recurring nightmares, and by pitching itself towards both camps, it falls kinda short…
Interview by Jim Dodge Jasper photo by Sharon Ring Mass Movement: With all of the scary things going on in the real world these days how do you keep your writing disturbing enough to compete?…
Good morning, Angels! Good morning, Erik! Yep, Kim Newman’s Angels of Music really does deliver what it says on the tin, a trio of female investigators, each with unique talents, working for the 19th century…
It’s sad but true – not all things from the Eighties are as good as you remember them, and whilst Vamp isn’t horrendous when re-visited 30 years down the road, it also hasn’t aged particularly…
