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Film Review: Scanners (1981)

July 11, 2013
11 mins to read

Thirty years later, Scanners still holds up well! The late seventies had seen a number of films involving telekinesis, most notably: Carrie, The Fury (both from Brian De Palma), the Aussie shocker Patrick, and The Medusa Touch. It must have seemed that Cronenberg’s Scanners, arriving a few years later, was a little late to the …

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Ghost-hunting in Australia (aka There’s Something Behind Me, Isn’t There?) Part Two

July 10, 2013
13 mins to read

Last month we began this outline of a weekend full of paranormal investigations at the abandoned Aradale Lunatic Asylum here in southern Australia. This column continues where the last left off… and moves right into the good part. Well, the more intense and interesting part, anyway. Previously: From Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May, …

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After Fight Club, Part II

July 10, 2013
11 mins to read

Each of the books discussed here features people with similar quirks: there are tortured artists (Diary, Haunted), attention-seekers (Choke, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor), experts in the many and varied uses of narcotics (Choke, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby – well, all of them, really). There are therapy junkies, sex addicts, fraudsters, trailer trash, delusionals, sacrificial women, …

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Audiobook Review: The Box by Stephen Gallagher

July 8, 2013
3 mins to read

Hammer Chillers is a brand new series of audio plays written by some of the brightest talents in the horror genre. The series kicks off with Stephen Gallagher’s tale, The Box. The Box centres around Stephen Dickens, expertly voiced by Lawrence Olivier Award-winning actor Con O’Neil, who is a safety instructor providing training for employees …