Category: Features

Searchlight: Mark Korven

June 20, 2017
4 mins to read

We often think of horror and the weird in visual terms. Often, it is what we see, whether it’s the imagery in our heads, or the images on a screen, that truly creep us out. Yet, horror is an emotion, and emotions are receptive to all our senses. For film, sometimes the creepy comes from …

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Injured Eyeballs 35: To Boldly Go Where No Bloch Has Gone Before

June 16, 2017
15 mins to read

The Star Trek Scripts of Robert Bloch April was the centenary of the birth of one of horror’s most important, and often underrated, writers–the much loved Robert Bloch. Although I’m two months late in celebrating this momentous date in the horror calendar, I still thought I ought to do something to mark the occasion. Bloch’s …

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Look Out For … The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne

June 15, 2017
2 mins to read

Look Out For … The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne “Some of the most disturbing examples of horror are those closest to home. The Upstairs Room is another such exercise in terror.” Eleanor, Richard and their two young daughters recently stretched themselves to the limit to buy their dream home, a four-bedroom Victorian townhouse in …

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Searchlight: The Art of Dead Space

June 13, 2017
4 mins to read

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past ten years, surely you know of the Dead Space video game series. Along with the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series, Dead Space remains one of the most popular horror video games ever, and with good reason. With healthy nods to classics such as Aliens, …