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News Round-up Week Ending 23 October

October 23, 2015
2 mins to read

Infected Books Halloween Event David Moody (author of Hater) and Wayne Simmons (Plastic Jesus)are hosting a Halloween event at Waterstones New Street in Birmingham on Friday 30 October. Reprising their successful “Never Trust A Man With Hair” tour, the pair will sign books and answer questions from the audience. The event runs from 7pm until …

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Film Review: V/H/S: Viral (2014)

October 23, 2015
6 mins to read

“In spite of its defects, V/H/S: Viral is still an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half.” Film fans, and cineastes of all stripes, have a theory about trilogies. In short, according to this theory, the first movie is iconic, the second is by far the best and the third falls far short …

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The Cutting Room. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

October 22, 2015
2 mins to read

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Final Chapter finds humanity on its last legs and Alice (Jovovich) must return to Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is preparing for a final strike against the survivors of the apocalypse. In a race against time Alice will join forces with old friends, and …

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Tattered Tomes: The Silver Limbic Highway – Kathe Koja’s Bad Brains, Revisited

October 21, 2015
10 mins to read

If you’re a fan of horror fiction, surely you know the work of Kathe Koja. I first heard of her work reading a horror lit zine in the early 90s in a promo article touting her soon to be released novel The Cipher. The local strip mall installed a Hastings and they had the best …