While Hammer Horror had a hit with The Curse of Frankenstein, it was still trying to find its feet when it came to their horror style when The Abominable Snowman… Read More »Love Letter to Hammer Horror: The Abominable Snowman
THE SWEET, SWEET SUFFERING “We forget out pleasures and we remember our sufferings”, or so the Roman stateman Cicero once remarked; and in Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart the sweet,… Read More »Book vs Film: Hellraiser
The poet Robbie Burns and horror films may not seem to have a lot in common, but there is one thread tying them together: they are both randy as hell.… Read More »Scarring Scores: The Wicker Man
Mothers. Aren’t they so sweet? Kind? Gentle? Some of these mums missed the memo. In this new series, I’ll be exploring the ‘monstrous mother’ – the mothers of horror who… Read More »Monstrous Mothers: Inside
In the last twelve years, Burbank-based production company The Asylum has introduced and developed the fantastical shark horror sub-genre. Others have tried – Avalanche Sharks, DinoShark, Corman’s Sharktopus – but… Read More »Even Better Than The Real Fin – A Celebration Of Shark Horror