Category: Horror
Scream: horror movie review, by Mark Kermode (video).
Horror flick Scream is reviewed by our man of many movies, Mark Kermode. A new Ghostface assassin arises twenty-five years after the initial Woodsboro murders, enticing Sidney Prescott back to learn the truth.
Scream (horror film: final trailer).
Scream returns and a new murderer appears twenty-five years after the initial series of killings in Woodsboro, and Sidney Prescott must return to find the truth. Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox star in this horror film, which will be released in theatres on January 14th, 2022.
All of Us Are Dead (Netflix South Korean horror movie: trailer).
Here’s the trailer for a new South Korean horror movie landing on Netflix (January 28th 2022), All of Us Are Dead. A high school is turned into the epicentre of a zombie virus epidemic. Students who have been trapped must battle their way out – or risk becoming one of the rabid infected. School’s out […]
Anne Rice tribute: audio interview.
Horror author Anne Rice who sadly passed recently from a stroke (1941-2021), discusses her life, works, and career. Anne discusses how her best-selling novel Interview with a Vampire grew from a short tale, as well as her obsession with vampires—monsters that are also human, capable of experiencing human emotions yet magical entities who exist outside […]
Ghosts, the BBC’s spooky horror comedy, back for a season four (TV news).
Ghosts, the BBC’s horror comedic sitcom, will now return for a fourth season. The comedy, from the writers and actors of Yonderland and Bill, as well as the original stars of Horrible Histories, will begin shooting in the new year of 2022 and will be shown on BBC One and BBC iPlayer once again. When […]
Terror Tales Of The Scottish Lowlands edited by Paul Finch (book review).
Each book in the ‘Terror Tales’ series focuses on an area of Britain and features short fiction accompanied by articles about ‘real-life’ weird phenomena. The appeal to local readers must guarantee a few sales but there’s plenty to like for any UK horror fan and even Johnny Foreigner might derive some pleasure there from. Here’s […]
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, a horror film review by Mark Kermode.
Horror film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is reviewed by our man of many movies, Mark Kermode. A virus outbreak at the Spencer Mansion in 1998 causes devastation in Raccoon City.
Look Where You Are Going Not Where You Have Been (The Harvester series book 9) by Steven J Dynes (book review).
Many writers at the start of their careers are told to write about what they know. Indeed, one agent told their author that she couldn’t possibly have her main point of view character who was a French priest as he was neither French nor a priest. Authors, though will draw on their experiences in their […]
Hell’s Bounty by Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale (book review).
‘Hell’s Bounty’ is a book with a chequered history! The copy I received from the SFCrowsnest review stockpile was the original Subterranean Press paperback edition, which is now long out of print. Since then, Short Scary Tales Publications in the UK, picked it up, but again it went out of print. Now it has yet […]
Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a film review by Mark Kermode (video).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, gives his opinion on Afterlife, a sequel to the original Ghostbusters movie. When a single woman and her children relocate to a tiny village, they learn about their grandfather’s secrets and heritage. Hey, what could go wrong, apart from the gates of hell breaking open.
