Category: Reviews

Review: Christmas Evil

  • December 11, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Oh, the early 80s, when slasher movies were all the rage. Arrow have unearthed a Christmas horror that’s also know as You Better Watch Out and has been lauded by John Waters as being the “greatest Christmas movie ever made”. Read more…

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Review: The 13 Ghosts of Christmas

  • December 3, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

The 13 Ghosts of Christmas is the latest offering from Spectral Press and celebrates editor Simon Marshall-Jones’ love of the traditional ghost story. The collection brings together some of the hottest talent in the horror genre to celebrate the darker side of the festive period and take the reader back to an era of ghost …

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Review: Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig

  • November 27, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Chuck Wendig takes all the outstanding elements from Blackbirds, the first novel to feature Miriam Black, and dials them up to eleven for Mockingbird. Once again the pacing, pitch black humour and whip-sharp dialogue are a joyous treat that have you simultaneously desperate to read more and reluctant to devour the book too quick. Read …

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Review: Basket Case Trilogy

  • November 21, 2012

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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (the 1980s), films like Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case were the staple diet of pale-faced video shop junkies looking for their next fix of weird horror mayhem. But times have changed and instead of ultra-low-budget, lovingly crafted, intelligently written midnight movies, we now get bland, mass-produced …

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