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News Round-up Week Ending 3 July

The Grieving Stones

FrightFest line-up announced The line-up for this year’s Film4 FrightFest has been announced. The festival has unleashed a massive array of films for the viewing pleasure of its rabid audience. The festival covers horror in all forms from foreign language films to remastered classics and the festival always pays homage to its British heritage with …

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News Round-up Week Ending 26 June

Hannibal

Hannibal Cancelled Bad news for “Fannibals” and horror connoisseurs everywhere, NBC has this week pulled the plug on Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal. The third series, which is currently airing to rave reviews but minimal audiences, will be the last that the network produces. However, fear not, the internet is rife with speculation that one of the …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 22 June 2015

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: The Horror World Remembers Christopher Lee In Defence of Horror: 5 Reasons to Scare Your Kids The Wicker Man: The Greatest British Horror Film How An X-Files Script Started a Successful Horror …

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News Round-up Week Ending 19 June

American Gods

Get ready to meet Meg Reports are circulating that Eli Roth has signed on to direct Meg, the big screen adaptation of Steve Altern’s New York Times bestselling novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror. After many false starts it looks like this crazy, massive shark project may finally be sticking its considerable fin above …

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Obituary – Sir Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Lee: May 27 1922–June 7 2015. How do you even start to do justice to Christopher Lee? His life, his career, and the scale of his personal and professional achievements are truly humbling. At six feet five inches, he was virtually a giant in physical terms; as an artist he was a literal …

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News Round-up Week Ending 12 June

Christopher Lee Dies Aged 93 Horror icon, screen legend, and last of the great gentlemen actors, Sir Christopher Lee passed away aged 93 at 8:30am on Sunday at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital where sources have said he was being treated for respiratory problems and heart failure. Perhaps best known to horror fans for his …

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A Taste of Hannibal Season 3 From Exclusive Cinema Event

London ‘Fannibals’ enjoy a tantalising taste of Season 3 at edible cinema exclusive. “Season Two certainly left us with lots to chew on,” quips Sky Executive Julia Barry as tonight’s honoured guests set about gorging their way through an extravagant feast of quivering cucumber jelly, succulent cuts of beef tartare, candied ‘long pig’ crackling and …

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News Round-up Week Ending 5 June

the last outpost

FUBAR unleashed Cohesion Press have released the latest collection from Weston Ochse, FUBAR. This collection of war stories brings together Ochse’s war fiction and essays from over the last twenty years. It is the definitive word on Ochse’s military output and a must for fans of the military horror sub-genre. You can grab your copy …

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The Cutting Room: The Belko Experiment

At the beginning of a work day, the American Belko company in South America is mysteriously sealed off and its employees are ordered to kill each other or be killed themselves. This starts an escalation of violence, where we discover the true nature of each and every Belko employee. Why we’re looking forward to this: …

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News Round-up Week Ending 29 May

Pennywise

R.I.P. Tanith Lee 1947-2015 This week saw the passing of fantasy and horror author Tanith Lee, aged 67. Lee was the first female winner of the British Fantasy Award in 1980 and subsequently won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story in 1983 and 1984. She also won the Lifetime Achievement Award from both …

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