By Tristan Bishop Those of us who have been horror fans for a number of years tend to be immune to most attempted ‘scares’, mostly because we know the tropes all too well and can read the signposts to the next shock moment. So whilst the average viewer might be jumping out of their chair […]
By Stephanie Scaife This is a story that I’ve told before, but it bears repeating. When we first got a VHS player in the mid-80s and I started frequenting the local video store, I was quickly seduced by the lurid covers of the horror section and the age restrictions that applied to these titles. I […]
By Guest Contributor Claire Waddingham About three weeks ago, in that dreary post Christmas period, I found a copy of Ghostwatch in one of the local charity shops. It was only a quid, and as it was Sunday, and I wanted a bit of nostalgia, I decided to fork out to watch it. I figured […]
By Quin I must admit, when it was decided that we would be doing a series of special features dedicated to our own childhood terrors, I felt a bit perplexed and the anxiety came flooding in. Not because I didn’t want to revisit all of the things that scared me as a kid. I’m perfectly […]
Review by Tristan Bishop Stellan Skarsgard’s 40 year plus career has taken in a lot of different work, from his long-running collaborations with eternal enfant terrible of art-house cinema Lars Von Trier (so far he has appeared in six of the director’s films), to his roles in the recent Marvel Thor and Avengers films, to […]
By Keri O’Shea As I alluded to in the introduction to our Childhood Terrors series, the bookshelf has long been (and hopefully still is) a formidable presence in children’s lives – a rich seam of ideas at the threshold of a room, teeming with characters and forces which command real power. A book is, all […]
Review by Quin A couple days after I received a screener copy of In The House of Flies in the mail, it became available to stream on Hulu in the US. So, if you’re a subscriber to that wonderful service, please feel free to follow along at home. Since my DVD copy had a list […]
By Guest Contributor Helen Creighton Published in the early 1980s, The Unexplained – Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time was a magazine perfectly designed to impress the young and credulous mind. It looked grown-up and vaguely ‘scientific’, although it was the absolute opposite. It avoided crass, splashy headlines and sensationalism for lengthy, scholarly-looking articles, laden […]
By Ben Bussey And so, one writer’s Troma education continues. Up until only a few months ago, pretty much all I’d seen from the famed trash cinema factory were the original Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke ‘Em High (or at least those are the only ones that come to mind). However, after 88 Films […]
By Keri O’Shea (For the first part of this article, please click here.) Signs of the Times Although Misty focused on supernatural and fantastical goings-on in its stories, between the lines it was still very much a product of the late seventies and early eighties, with plenty of evidence of the social and political situation […]
By Nia Edwards-Behi I wasn’t a horror ‘fan’ as a child, per se. I certainly didn’t have anything against the genre. However, I was an avid fan of the Goosebumps series of books. More than that, I’m fairly certain that the Goosebumps series was my first contact with the horror genre. I know I read […]