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Dead End Drive-In

June 4, 2013
1 min to read

The phenomenal success of George Miller’s Australian post-apocalyptic science fiction thrillers Mad Max (1979) and its sequel Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior in the US) subsequently caused fall out of its own in the form of numerous rip-offs and imitations that all attempted to cash in on those movies’ heady mix of violence, action …

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Scanners II: The New Order

June 4, 2013
1 min to read

Arriving a good ten years after Cronenberg’s original, Scanners II is probably a film that no one expected or even wanted. None of the original cast return, and the single connection to that first film (revealed about halfway in) feels almost like an afterthought. Keep on reading…

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 3 June 2013

June 3, 2013
3 mins to read

Welcome to this week’s edition of Must Read Horror, your one-stop shop for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: The New French Extremity: An Endeavour into Excessive Violence Set Visit Report: Five Things We Learned About Insidious Chapter 2 The Biggest Reasons Why Faeries Are Evil A Point of View …

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TIH 009: Joe Hill on NOS4A2, Family and Writing Novels

June 2, 2013
2 mins to read

In this podcast Dan Howarth interviews Joe Hill in Liverpool Waterstone’s ahead of his NOS4R2/NOS4A2 launch. We then discuss the event in the This Is Horror studio. Topics [1:30] Joe Hill interview [2:00] Weather banter [2:48] Intention and expectations when writing a novel [8:05] Christmas and the macabre [10:34] Inspiration and the vampire mythology [14:10] …