By Keri O’Shea “Why is there a knife blade in the tip of your umbrella?” It’s fair to say that when the Japanese get hold of a youth subculture they like, they more than make it their own – and the ‘Gothic Lolita’ phenomenon is a good case in point. A pretty mash-up of I […]
By Tristan Bishop Dead Rising: Watchtower, for those of you not in the know, is a video game adaptation. The game series (3 main entries and numerous spin-offs) is basically a spin on Dawn Of The Dead, and has you attempting various missions in shopping malls which are infested with slow-moving but incredibly numerous zombies. […]
By Svetlana Fedotov Well, here we are, another comic about a supernatural detective who’s seen too much and is SO over it. Of course, there’s a wildly vast array of characters with weird faces whom the populace may or may not see and uh, vampires? Yeah vampires. So of course, you’re asking, ‘Svetlana, why are […]
By Keri O’Shea Well, as my esteemed colleague Ben has already told you all, we plan on making August a huge celebration of the life of Asami Sugiura as she approaches her thirtieth birthday. But it also occurs to us that, out there, some of you may be completely uninitiated into the ways of one […]
Pardon me a ‘get off my lawn’ moment, if you will: supernatural horror-making in recent years has gone down the drain. Oh sure, on occasion you’ll see a film which has its moments, but the fact that this often strikes us with such genuine surprise and delight should testify that for the most part, supernatural […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi FrightFest is the place to see the largest array of horror and genre films on the big screen in the UK. Any film festival can be a marathon feat of endurance, but it’s always even more painful when you’re trying to decide between films and squeezing as much as you can between […]
By Tristan Bishop The film industry, like most creative industries, is notoriously tough to break into. For every A-list movie star at the top of their game, a pyramid made up of thousands of less fortunate souls lies beneath them – a few of them might be well-known character actors, and a few more those […]
By Ben Bussey It can’t be a good sign when, halfway through watching a newly released French horror movie, you find yourself pondering what happened to the days when so much of the most exciting horror around was coming out of France. Really though, where did it all go wrong? French filmmakers were responsible for […]
By Dustin Hall Gencon 2015 is next week, that’s the world’s largest tabletop and role-playing game convention, and with it will come a bevy of new offerings to the gaming world, including several fine new horror entries. While the filmic world of Horror may be languishing in a found-footage induced funk at the moment, Horror […]
By Keri O’Shea When a film is described by its maker as ‘modern Gothic’ then I have to admit, I’ll always jump at the chance to see it, even if I’m often disappointed. The term ‘Gothic’ is tough to define in many ways, but even if we can’t always agree what Gothic is, then we […]
By Keri O’Shea When creator Nigel Kneale brought Professor Bernard Quatermass to the screen in the late 70s, it was not the first time that this intriguing and rather under-appreciated figure had appeared; since the 1950s, when he was first introduced, he had become a quiet but interesting institution, a man whose scientific acumen was […]