Art, Culture, Literature

Photo credit: Mark Senior. It was early January when I received the invitation. Did I fancy taking a trip into a sub Arctic central London to sit under a dank railway arch beneath Waterloo Station, while the trains packed with ...

“If you’re doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there’d be no point. I’m trying to think if there’s sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children—oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. ...

Michael Winner’s Scream For Help (1984) is a thoroughly enjoyable – as well as nutsy – hybrid of a Nancy Drew style mystery, a psycho-thriller that has gas lighting on the agenda and a contemporary slasher (which were all the ...

February is drawing to a close. The calendar is racing towards spring and the days are growing milder. In a hail of red crepe paper and discarded heart-shaped trinkets, we have left Valentine’s Day behind. Chocolates have been eaten, hearts ...

Closing in on nearly fifty years after the event, the dark enigma of Charles Manson (1934 – 2017) and the horror that was the Tate-LaBianca murders continue to fascinate and haunt us in a way that very few crimes before ...

Constellations is the new line of quality SF film monographs from Auteur Press, standing proudly alongside their slightly better-known Devil’s Advocate horror film series. Released last year as part of the first wave of these, this one finds noted film ...

Graeme Davis is an editor who clearly likes women. More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror is dedicated to his wife: “who proves to me every day that women are amazing.” To put it simply, the ...

Hasbro! Kenner! Mattel! You know them! They’re those companies that made My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Star Wars, Barbie, and any and every movie tie-in toy. Police Academy toys?? YEAH, actually I DO want that — THANKS, KENNER! I ...

Growing up in Australia as a horror-loving kid in the late-70s, few things fed my imagination and excitement quite like that feeling when the Thursday newspapers arrived. Thursday was the day when the cinemas nationwide would update their programming so ...

Elisabeth Brooks in Joe Dante’s The Howling (1981) The Howling is one of my all-time favorite horror films. I discovered it as a child, and it was one of the rare horror movies that my dad enthusiastically introduced me to.It’s ...