Jonathan (1970) Karl Marx once famously equated capitalism with vampirism: Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.1 If we regard fascism a form of super-capitalism, vampire ...
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“What you meet in the dark is yourself. And that is truly a thing to be feared.” — The Witch Finder’s Sister Historian Malcolm Gaskill notes in his 2005 book Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy that the infamous Witchfinder General ...
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For those feeling post-Halloween blues, check out Fear in the Fens Festival tomorrow (5th November 2016). For showings of Witchfinder General, and The Tomb of Ligeia. For more information go to their official website, here. This is what the organisers ...
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In the era of the 1960’s horror scene, there was rarely a partnership as influential or as consistently fruitful as the pairing of Vincent Price and Roger Corman. Corman, being a business savvy lover of horror literature and cinema as ...
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