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The Bay (2012)

March 18, 2013
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The found footage film is the cinematic equivalent of the abandoned manuscript or the notebook found in a deserted house. It’s an effective, potentially powerful way to add verisimilitude to a story (and get around holes in the budget), as The Blair Witch Project showed so effectively back in 1999, so it’s unsurprising that the last decade …

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Barbie Wilde

March 14, 2013
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Barbie Wilde is best known as the Female Cenobite in Clive Barker’s classic cult horror movie Hellbound: Hellraiser II, as well as appearing in Death Wish III and Grizzly II: The Concert. She’s had four short horror stories published in four different anthologies over the last few years. In November 2012, Comet Press published Barbie’s first dark crime novel, The …

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A Dreadful Fear of Clichés

March 13, 2013
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I have a confession. There are a few (well, many) horror tropes that I just cannot stomach at all. Not because they’re cliché – although, of course, they are – but because there’s something about them that’s actually, fundamentally, terrifying. Keep on reading…

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Death’s Apprentice: A Grimm City Novel by K.W.Jeter and Gareth Jefferson Jones

March 13, 2013
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The Brothers Grimm are responsible for some of the most terrifying fairytales ever committed to paper. Disney has also played a part in bringing them to the attention of children the world over, albeit in toned-down versions peppered with musical numbers and dancing forest-animals. Death’s Apprentice: A Grimm City Novel does the exact opposite, combining the original …