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News Round-up Week Ending 2 January

January 2, 2015
2 mins to read

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death From British horror empire Hammer Film Productions, comes The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death. The film, released on New Year’s Day, tells the story of a group of World War II evacuees staying in Eel Marsh House. Little by little the strange behaviour of the …

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The Cutting Room: Terror Tales and Krampus

January 1, 2015
3 mins to read

Tales of Terror As well as directing many feature length movies based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman also created several shorts based on the stories of the gothic author too. Collected here are three of those shorts, all starring Corman collaborator Vincent Price. In The Black Cat Price stars with Peter …

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Film Review: Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

December 31, 2014
4 mins to read

“Not great, but creepy enough to be effective.” Possession movies are ten a penny these days, with Hollywood churning out exorcism films like pasta. Every so often, one comes along that doesn’t stick to the tried and tested routines and resultantly appears like a fresh piece of fruit in a bowl of decay. Deliver Us …

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Book Review: The Year’s Best Weird Fiction (ed. Michael Kelly and Laird Barron)

December 31, 2014
9 mins to read

“The Year’s Best Weird Fiction triumphantly lives up to its title.” The Year’s Best Weird Fiction is a new annual anthology; this inaugural volume contains two introductions, twenty-two stories and runs to 125k words in its attempts to sum up what ‘weird fiction’ is. As interesting as the introductions are, the weird is perhaps better …