Category: Features

Terror Tots: Bloody Birthday

  • April 1, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

On this installment of Terror Tots – the series in which we take a look at some of filmdom’s most obscure and disturbing killer kids – we’re opening the case for Ed Hunt’s 1981 shocker Bloody Birthday. In 1970, three children are simultaneously born to different mothers, under the ominous shade of a solar eclipse. Fast forward …

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Look Out For… Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones and Strange Tales V

  • March 31, 2015

  • 4 mins to read

Look Out For… Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones “A collection of interlinked short stories set in the mysterious town of Longcroft, these are strange and compelling tales.” Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones, publisher and editor at award-nominated Spectral Press, is a series of connected short fiction stories, semi-autobiographical in nature, set in the imaginary town …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 30 March 2015

  • March 30, 2015

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Scared Senseless: The Indie Horror Boom and What Frightens Us Now Is the Horror Genre Finally Back From the Dead? Together Forever: The Ginger Snaps Trilogy 5 ’80s Horror Movies That Would …

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The Cutting Room: Let The Right One In

  • March 26, 2015

  • 3 mins to read

Let The Right One In Twelve-year-old Oskar is lonely, bullied and badly in need of a friend when he meets Eli, a beautiful but strange girl who appears to be his own age and who has just moved into his apartment block. All is not quite what it seems, however, as bodies begin to pile …

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