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News Round-up Week Ending 22 April 2016

April 22, 2016
6 mins to read

Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Hellboy’s Doug Jones To Star In Nosferatu ‘remix’ David Lee Fisher’s new take on F.W. Murnau’s classic 1922 Nosferatu has announced that Doug Jones, best known to horror fans for his work in Hellboy and Pan’s …

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The Cutting Room – The Mist (TV Series)

April 21, 2016
3 mins to read

It’s a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist… creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens …

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Book Review: Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

April 20, 2016
5 mins to read

“A chilling indictment of modern society seen through the prism of ancient customs” In this day and age, it’s difficult to conceive that anything that went on in the world, particularly in America, would be able to escape the glare of the seemingly omnipotent social media network, and on the whole you’d be right. Thomas …

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Witches In Horror Cinema

April 20, 2016
7 mins to read

Something wicked this way comes… With the recent cinematic release of Robert Eggers’ The Witch, we started to think about the history of witches in genre cinema and decided to take a look back. One thing that is very clear about witches on celluloid is that they seem to fall into two very distinct descriptive …