This Is Horror

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

January 12, 2012
1 mins to read

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, was released in 2006 with very minimal fanfare. It’s a shame as it’s probably one of the best horror films of recent times that you probably haven’t even heard of, let alone seen. It takes a cue from Scream, in that it de-constructs the slasher sub-genre and …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/behind-the-mask-the-rise-of-leslie-vernon/

Found: One Severed Head

January 11, 2012
1 mins to read

I’ll tell you something, nothing kick-starts widespread killer-on-the-loose panic quicker than finding a severed head in a suburban shopping plaza dumpster. Well, I guess I hail from a pretty exciting enclave of morbid death and destruction, despite the disinterest that largely characterised my formative years, because that’s exactly the scenario that played out in and …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/found-one-severed-head/

Meet The Writer: Patrick Freivald

January 11, 2012
1 mins to read

What first attracted you to horror writing? I read Stephen King’s The Stand in sixth grade. I can’t say I understood it all at the time, but I was drawn in to both the human side of horror – the plague and the struggle to survive the aftermath – and the supernatural battle between good …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/meet-the-writer-patrick-freivald/

A brand new audibook by Anthony Keetch

January 10, 2012
1 mins to read

Anthony Keetch alongside David Darlington and What Noise Productions has produced and written ‘The Devil Take Your Stereo – A Satanic Chiller by Desmond Stirling’. This story is available as an audiobook in five episodic chunks. Part-comedy/part-horror it follows an elderly writer of horror novels trying to dictate his latest opus. Head on over to …