This Is Horror

The Cutting Room: Big Driver and The Stand

November 27, 2014
3 mins to read

Big Driver Tess Thorne (Maria Bello), a famous mystery writer who gets sidetracked during a long drive home from a book signing. After deciding to take a shortcut, she becomes stranded on a lonely New England road when her tire blows out. Thorne encounters another driver (Will Harris) who turns out to be a serial …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/the-cutting-room-big-driver-and-the-stand/

Terror Tots: Mikey

November 27, 2014
6 mins to read

As we enter the run-up to Christmas, we’re all getting ready to see and hear the excited chatter of the nation’s children as they gradually get ever more stoked on the natural high that is the season. Letters will soon be sent off to Father Christmas, filled with the requisite lists of toys and (these …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/terror-tots-mikey/

Look Out For… The Nickronomicon by Nick Mamatas and European Monsters

November 25, 2014
4 mins to read

Look Out For… The Nickronomicon by Nick Mamatas “It’s a rare writer indeed who can write a Lovecraftian story that’s simultaneously funny and unnerving.” This vile tome collects thirteen blasphemous Lovecraftan tales of a certain scribe named Nick Mamatas. Warning: May contain shoggoths, martial arts, weirdness, Nyarlathotep, fish people from Innsmouth, and copious literary references. …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-the-nickronomicon-by-nick-mamatas-and-european-monsters/

Film Review: Horns (2013)

November 25, 2014
5 mins to read

“Leaves you with a sour taste in your mouth as the credits roll!” Based on the successful 2010 Joe Hill (the son of horror maestro Stephen King) novel of the same name, Horns tells the tale of Ig (Daniel Radcliffe), a young man who, upon waking from a drunken stupor, finds himself accused of …