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FrightFest 2013 Film Review: 100 Bloody Acres

October 24, 2013
2 mins to read

“It’s so bizarre it actually works!” Reg and Lindsay Morgan run a small organic bone fertiliser company in the outback. Business is thriving thanks to a special ingredient: human bodies. When Reg picks up three youngsters on their way to a music festival, it’s clear they’re not going to make it. Like the tonally similar …

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The Best British Fantasy 2013 (Edited by Steve Haynes)

October 24, 2013
8 mins to read

“An inconsistent start to the Best British Fantasy series which features some blistering dark highlights and mediocre filler.” The Best British Fantasy 2013 is a collection edited by Steve Haynes and published by Salt. Yet despite the ‘fantasy’ title, both the content and editor’s introduction indicate a far broader stroke of stories. There are plans …

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Eraserhead and Me

October 23, 2013
17 mins to read

I recently had the opportunity to watch David Lynch’s Eraserhead on Blu-ray. This was an especially momentous occasion, as I hadn’t seen this quite astounding surrealist nightmare of a film for many years. It’s a remarkable piece – definitely one of the strangest and most beguiling movies ever made, and I feel as if …

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Book Review: Weirder Shadows over Innsmouth, edited by Stephen Jones

October 22, 2013
6 mins to read

“One of the best Lovecraft-inspired anthologies ever!” For the uninitiated, Fedogan & Bremer is a small press outfit that during the 1990s and 2000s rivalled Arkham House, both in the quality of the books it produced and the kind of writers it published. Beautiful hardcover volumes containing the reprinted work of the likes of Hugh …