Kev Harrison

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Searchlight: The Nightmare

July 11, 2017
4 mins to read

Rodney Ascher’s 2015 documentary The Nightmare might sound a little too on the nose for horror inspiration, but beyond the surface, there’s an undercurrent of creepy that’s difficult to ignore. With my own background in psychology, I’ve always found myself drawn to the power our dreams hold over us. This film focuses on sleep paralysis, …

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Searchlight: A Pictorial History of Horror Movies

July 4, 2017
4 mins to read

A fan of horror movies since childhood, probably one of my most treasured gifts was a book I received for Christmas when I was ten years old, A Pictorial History of Horror Movies by Denis Gifford. This book ranks extremely high on the inspiration scale, and with good reason. TV in my household in 1977 …

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News Round-up Week Ending 30 June 2017

June 30, 2017
4 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New anthology of weird fiction, Behold! Oddities, Curiosities & Undefinable Wonders coming 28 July from Crystal Lake Publishing Sometimes the contributors list for an anthology is just too good to ignore and the new weird fiction anthology, Behold! …

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Searchlight: Crafty Screenwriting

June 27, 2017
5 mins to read

Listeners of the This Is Horror podcast have probably heard me mentioning a book called Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made by Alex Epstein. Though not an actual writing reference guide, this book influenced my writing quite a bit. Epstein’s brutal honesty and eye-opening approach to the script writing business isn’t for everyone, but …