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Live Horror Tonight

March 1, 2013
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The event starts at 6:30pm. Film Studies lecturer, podcast host and writer, John Costello will be filling in as host for the absent Jasper Bark who has fallen ill (but don’t worry he assures us he’ll be back and in full swing for Edinburgh later this month). The Writer’s Room is situated in Milburn …

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Taking a Good Look at Horrors From Beyond

February 28, 2013
1 min to read

This month I have had the good fortune, thanks to those lovely people at Second Sight, to revisit a movie I haven’t seen since its original UK VHS release back in the late 1980s. The film is From Beyond, it was Stuart Gordon’s follow-up to his delirious and delicious Re-Animator, and it comes out on blu-ray and …

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Who The F*** Is Howard Nostrand?

February 28, 2013
1 min to read

Pablo Picasso is reported to have said: “good artists borrow, great artists steal.” This quote often makes me wonder if ‘great artists’ isn’t a Spanish euphemism for ‘talentless c***s’ (maybe something got lost in the translation). George Bernard Shaw, the long winded playwright and rent-a-quote once said something similar about writers. It’s possible that Shaw …

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Celebrating Horror Culture in Australia

February 28, 2013
1 min to read

I was married late last year. It was on a very lucky day, both for me and for the whole world. We held the ceremony and reception on 23 December, the day after the predicted end of the world, as foretold by the Mayan culture, or at least as interpreted by millions around the world. …