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Film Four FrightFest Day 1 – Thursday 27 August 2015

September 7, 2015
8 mins to read

It’s quite amazing just how quickly Film Four FrightFest seems to come around every year. Now in its sixteenth year, the London based film festival is still going from strength to strength, and this year it proved to be bigger than ever, boasting an incredible number of horror and genre premieres, previews and retrospectives from …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 September 2015

September 7, 2015
3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? Why I Love 80s Horror: Part One – VHS Covers Why Wes Craven Mattered to Horror Fans Something Rotten ‘The Strain’: Why FX’s Vampire-Apocalypse …

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News Round-up Week Ending 4 September 2015

September 4, 2015
5 mins to read

Wes Craven Dies Aged 76 Maestro horror film director Wes Craven has passed way on Sunday 30 August at the age of 76 following a battle with brain cancer. The respected director was undoubtedly best known as the creator of the A Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream series of films, but he was also …

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High Brow, Low Brow, No Brow

September 4, 2015
4 mins to read

Some of you may have read a certain online Guardian article recently, and, like me, I’m sure many of you fell into the trap of this obvious bit of trolling, expressing anger and dismay at such a joyless statement about the supposed worth of reading some books over others. The fact that the online Guardian …