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News Round-up Week Ending 27 May 2016

May 27, 2016
4 mins to read

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… John Carpenter on board for New Halloween Reboot Thirty eight years after the original film’s release, Halloween is to receive a new reboot, this time with John Carpenter himself on board as executive producer. Miramax have pulled …

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The Top 10 Best Horror Collectibles

May 27, 2016
6 mins to read

The Top 10 Best Horror Collectibles You may remember that we recently ran a piece about horror toys and collectibles (if not, go read it here) and in it we promised to run down what are, in our opinion, the ten best collectibles out there. So, in no specific order, here they are: Jaws: Orca …

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The Cutting Room – Mr. Mercedes

May 26, 2016
2 mins to read

Mr. Mercedes centres on a demented killer who taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Brendan Gleeson plays Detective Bill Hodges, a retired cop who is driven …

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Why Let The Right One In is the Best Vampire Story of All Time

May 26, 2016
7 mins to read

Why Let The Right One In is the Best Vampire Story of All Time With the influx of glitzy overly-romanticized vampire books, movies and television shows—True Blood, Vampire Diaries, and everyone’s favorite sparkling diamond-esque vampire flick Twilight to name a few—I think we’ve lost sight of the disgusting horror that is vampirism. Drinking blood is, …