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Review: The Lords of Salem

April 30, 2013
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Rob Zombie’s new film is a departure from gorier efforts like House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects and his two Halloween remakes. In fact it’s initially quite quiet and restrained, before growing increasingly surreal and unhinged as it progresses to a climax as garish, lurid and loud as an MTV rock video. That’s an …

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Review: Blood Fugue by Joseph D’Lacey

April 30, 2013
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Jimmy Kerrigan is a writer living in small-town Hobson’s Valley. An outsider with an inexplicable fear of the dark, Kerrigan is something of a mystery to those in the community. The opening scenes with Randall Moore, the proprietor of a local store, suggest that Jimmy is about as welcome as a bout of chlamydia, which …

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Apex Magazine #44 Edited by Lynne M Thomas

April 29, 2013
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Eugie Foster’s ‘Trixie and the Pandas of Dread’ is a highly comedic tale of gods and, as the title suggests, pandas. Trixie is a god whose job it is to smite the sinners – no matter how trite their crime. Regretfully, when the Dogma Depot asked her what creatures she desired to carry her around, …

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Evil Dead Review and The Evil Dead & Me

April 29, 2013
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After the recent release of Evil Dead (2013) we present to you a couple of pieces with somewhat differing views on this year’s most anticipated remake. First up we’ve a full review of Evil Dead, this is followed by John Llewellyn Probert’s latest instalment in ‘The Bloodstained Balcony’ column, The Evil Dead and Me. Evil …