Category: Features

The Cutting Room – Mr. Mercedes

  • May 26, 2016

  • 2 mins to read

Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes

Mr. Mercedes centres on a demented killer who taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Brendan Gleeson plays Detective Bill Hodges, a retired cop who is driven …

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Why Let The Right One In is the Best Vampire Story of All Time

  • May 26, 2016

  • 7 mins to read

Let The Right One In film poster

Why Let The Right One In is the Best Vampire Story of All Time With the influx of glitzy overly-romanticized vampire books, movies and television shows—True Blood, Vampire Diaries, and everyone’s favorite sparkling diamond-esque vampire flick Twilight to name a few—I think we’ve lost sight of the disgusting horror that is vampirism. Drinking blood is, …

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Child’s Play: Entry Level Horror Films for Children

  • May 25, 2016

  • 8 mins to read

ParaNorman

Child’s Play: Entry Level Horror Films for Children You may have read that a US school teacher in Tennessee was recently suspended for showing his class the horror film Human Centipede 2. His reasons may have been pure—he claims he wanted to show them what to do if you’re bullied (er, sew people together, ass …

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Look Out For… Earth-Bound & Other Supernatural Tales by Dorothy Macardle and My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

  • May 24, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For… Earth-Bound & Other Supernatural Tales by Dorothy Macardle “Earth-Bound & Other Supernatural Tales is an intriguing, interesting and timely reissue.” Originally published in 1924, the nine tales that comprise Earth-Bound were written by Dorothy Macardle while she was held a political prisoner in Dublin’s Kilmainham Gaol and Mountjoy Prison. The stories incorporate …

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