News Round-up Week Ending 22 August

  • August 22, 2014

  • 2 mins to read
Shaune Harrison

Prosthetics guru heads to Grimmfest Prosthetics and FX guru Shaune Harrison will be appearing at this year’s Grimmfest. Having worked on films such as World War Z, Nightbreed and TV show Game of Thrones, Harrison will bring Hollywood pedigree to the Manchester festival. To get your tickets, head over to the Grimmfest website. First trailer …

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The Cutting Room: Wolf Creek 2 and Sharknado 2

  • August 21, 2014

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome back to The Cutting Room. This week we’re looking at a couple of releases that we hope will disprove the usual law of diminishing sequels. Wolf Creek 2 The first Wolf Creek, released back in 2005, was a decent stab at outback horror and featured one of the most memorable bad guys of recent …

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TIH 020: Simon Bestwick on Writing Serials, Joel Lane and Plotting

  • August 20, 2014

  • 3 mins to read

Simon Bestwick

In this podcast we interview Simon Bestwick, author of The Faceless. We talk about Simon’s Black Mountain serial from Spectral Press, the writing process, comedy and horror, and Joel Lane. Apologies for the audio issues. No apologies for Simon’s strong Northern accent. Topics [02:37] Interview start [03:06] Black Mountain [05:35] Writing as the character ‘Simon Bestwick’ [11:20] …

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Look Out For… The Last Plague by Rich Hawkins and Dreams Of Shadow & Smoke

  • August 19, 2014

  • 4 mins to read

Look Out For… The Last Plague by Rich Hawkins “The epic apocalyptic horror story has a long and distinguished history which The Last Plague looks set to join.“ A pestilence has fallen across the land. Run and hide. Seek shelter. Do not panic. The infected will find you. When Great Britain is hit by a devastating epidemic, …

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