The Bay (2012)

  • March 18, 2013

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The found footage film is the cinematic equivalent of the abandoned manuscript or the notebook found in a deserted house. It’s an effective, potentially powerful way to add verisimilitude to a story (and get around holes in the budget), as The Blair Witch Project showed so effectively back in 1999, so it’s unsurprising that the last decade …

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News Round-up Week Ending 15 March

  • March 15, 2013

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World Fantasy Convention carries on growing New names and guests at World Fantasy Convention 2013 in Brighton, UK carry on being announced. The most recent name to be added is that of Horns author Joe Hill. World Fantasy Convention will also feature Richard Matheson and This Is Horror favourite Robert Lloyd Parry as M.R. James. Further …

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Barbie Wilde

  • March 14, 2013

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Barbie Wilde is best known as the Female Cenobite in Clive Barker’s classic cult horror movie Hellbound: Hellraiser II, as well as appearing in Death Wish III and Grizzly II: The Concert. She’s had four short horror stories published in four different anthologies over the last few years. In November 2012, Comet Press published Barbie’s first dark crime novel, The …

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A Dreadful Fear of Clichés

  • March 13, 2013

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I have a confession. There are a few (well, many) horror tropes that I just cannot stomach at all. Not because they’re cliché – although, of course, they are – but because there’s something about them that’s actually, fundamentally, terrifying. Keep on reading…

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