Category: Reviews

FrightFest Glasgow 2014 (Part Two)

March 20, 2014
11 mins to read

SATURDAY Video Nasties: Draconian Days Saturday morning started with Video Nasties: Draconian Days, Jake West’s follow-up to his 2010 documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape, which covered the original video nasties scare of the early 1980s. The sequel takes us from the mid-eighties all the way up to 1999, taking in the rise …

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Book Review: No Monsters Allowed (Edited by Alex Davis)

March 19, 2014
8 mins to read

“A worthy addition to the themed anthology lexicon.” No Monsters Allowed editor Alex Davis has taken exception to the proliferation of zombies and vampires in genre and declared there will be no room for such well-worn tropes within his anthology. The title, as well as being a mission statement of sorts, is ironic; the stories …

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FrightFest Glasgow 2014 (Part One)

March 18, 2014
7 mins to read

With eleven films showing over just two days, FrightFest Glasgow is less gruelling than its southern counterpart, but only just. Not that any of the several hundred fans who gathered at the Glasgow Film Theatre on Friday 28 February and Saturday 1 March would complain. Along with the primary festival in London, and various all-nighters …

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Book Review: Ratman’s Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert

March 11, 2014
5 mins to read

“Valancourt should be congratulated for bringing this back into print!” In his introduction to this welcome new edition of Stephen Gilbert’s Ratman’s Notebooks, Kim Newman makes the bold claim that it is this book that effectively launched a new era in horror fiction, effectively kick-starting the careers of both Stephen King and James Herbert. Had …