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Meet The Writer Interview: Matt Leyshon

September 19, 2013
4 mins to read

Matt Leyshon is the author of The Function Room: The Kollection. He lives in Blackpool with his wife and cats. What first attracted you to horror writing? I have enjoyed the macabre for as long as I can remember. I was an invisible toddler who scared house guests with a plastic bat. I even learned …

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This Is Horror on BBC Radio 5 Live

September 18, 2013
1 min to read

Tomorrow morning at 8:40am our News Editor, Dan Howarth will be on the BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast Show with Nicky Campbell and Rachel Burden. Dan will be talking about whether people have become less affected by horror films over the years. You can listen to BBC Radio 5 Live here. If you want to …

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FrightFest 2013 Film Review: Curse of Chucky

September 18, 2013
5 mins to read

“A step in the right direction with an after-credit sequence you do not want to miss.” Everyone’s favourite copper-topped doll is back for more murder and hijinks. When a strange package arrives at Nica’s door, she gladly signs for it and takes it into the house. What’s in the box? That’s right: Chucky, and this …

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Film Review: Sawney: Flesh of Man

September 18, 2013
5 mins to read

“Gruesome, visceral, blackly funny and harrowing!” For those unfamiliar with the legend, Sawney Bean was a possibly-mythical, possibly-real Scottish cannibal who, along with his wife,and raised a family of equally murderous children and (via incest) grandchildren. They lived in a cave and preyed on unwary travellers, who they robbed, killed and ate. Eventually they …