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‘She drained them of their manhood… and then – of their lives!’ The Ballad of Tam Lin – aka Tam Lin and The Devil’s Widow – is a 1970 British …
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‘Shopping will never be the same again’ Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge is a 1989 American slasher horror film directed by Richard Friedman (Scared Stiff; Doom Asylum; Dark Wolf) …
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Beyond White Space aka White Space is a 2018 American-Hungarian science fiction film directed by visual effects expert Ken Locsmandi from a screenplay by Ryan Colucci and Clay McLeod Chapman (Chilling …
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‘Death used to be the end. Now it is only the beginning’ The Resurrected is a 1991 American supernatural horror film directed by Dan O’Bannon (director of The Return of the Living Dead; writer …
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‘Genius – or fiend?’ The Mad Doctor of Market Street is a 1941 [released 1942] American science fiction horror film directed by Joseph H. Lewis (So Dark the Night; Invisible …
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Ghosts of Mars is a 2001 American science fiction action horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay co-written with Larry Sulkis (Village of the Damned). The Screen Gems …
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‘When there’s no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth’ Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 American zombie horror film written and directed by George A. Romero. It …
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‘After school is when the real fun begins’ Extracurricular is a 2018 Canadian slasher horror film directed by Ray Xue from a screenplay written by Matthew Abrams and Padgett Arango. …
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‘You can’t keep a good band down’ Hard Rock Zombies is a 1985 American comedy horror film directed by Krishna Shah from a screenplay co-written with David Allen Ball. The …
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The Earth Dies Screaming is a 1964 British science fiction film directed by Terence Fisher (The Devil Rides Out; Island of Terror; Dracula; The Curse of Frankenstein et al) from a …
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‘On the dark side of dreams, a new terror takes shape.’ Shadowzone is a 1989 (released 1990) American science fiction horror film written and directed by J. S. Cardone (Wicked …
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Mandy is a 2018 American action horror film directed by Panos Cosmatos from a screenplay co-written with Aaron Stewart-Ahn. The movie stars Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough. It is one …
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‘Wanted: Dead or Undead’ High Moon – formerly known as Howlers – is a 2018 American action horror film written and directed by Josh Ridgway (Dead Weight; The Sector). The …
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Slaughterhouse Rock is a 1985 American supernatural horror film directed by Dimitri Logothetis (Jiu Jitsu) from a screenplay written by Sandra Willard, Nora Goodman and Ted Landon. The movie stars pop …
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Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! is a 2017 American horror film directed by Jared Cohn (The Domicile; Devil’s Domain; Little Dead Rotting Hood; 12/12/12). The Cleopatra Entertainment production stars Sara …
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‘India’s first zombie origin film’ Rise of the Zombie is a 2013 Indian horror film co-written and co-directed by Luke Kenny and Devaki Singh. It stars Luke Kenny, Kirti Kulhari and Ashwin Mushran. …
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‘Always wear a smile’ Clownface is a 2019 British slasher horror film directed by Alex Bourne (The House of Screaming Death) and produced by Mark Adams (My Bloody Banjo). The Hellbound …
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‘Tonight everyone dies!’ Legacy of Thorn – aka Thorn – is a 2014 British slasher horror film co-produced, written, edited, photographed and directed by MJ Dixon (Pandamonium; The Haunting of Molly …
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‘Rock & roll is where God and the Devil shake hands’ American Satan is a 2017 American supernatural thriller directed by Ash Avildsen from a screenplay co-written with Matty Beckerman. …
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‘Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bathroom…’ Ghoulies II – aka Ghoulies 2 – is a 1988 American supernatural comedy horror film directed by producer Charles …
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Shrunken Heads is a 1994 American horror film directed by Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone; Modern Vampires) from a screenplay written by Matthew Bright. The movie is Full Moon Entertainment’s first …
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‘The good. The bad. The Satanic.’ Ghost Town is a 1988 American horror film directed by Richard McCarthy [as Richard Governor] and [uncredited] Mac Ahlberg. The script was written by Duke Sandefur (Necronaut; The …
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‘Our greatest threat is our only hope’ The Girl with All the Gifts is a 2016 British post-apocalyptic zombie horror film directed by Colm McCarthy (Doctor Who; Ripper Street) from …
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‘Big movie. Big production. Big girls.’ Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by Ken Dixon (Filmgore; Zombiethon). The androids …
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‘Terror vision…’ The Killer Eye is a 1998 American science fiction comedy horror film directed by David DeCoteau (Creepozoids; Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy; Evil Exhumed) using the pseudonym Richard Chasen. …
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For some, all the world’s a stage, for others, a battlefield. Circumstances sometimes mean that these two options are thrust upon a person, both socially and as a career. It’s …
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‘There’s something deadly in the air’ Demon Wind is a 1990 American horror film written and directed by Charles Philip Moore (Twisted Nightmare; Dance with Death; Not of This Earth …
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Electronically produced sound has been available to adventurous film composers since the silent era. Among the earliest electronic instruments were the Ondes-Martenot (invented in 1928), which produced a characteristic quivering …
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31 is a 2015 American horror film written, directed and co-produced by Rob Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects; Halloween; The Lords of Salem). The movie stars Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie and Richard …
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Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American science-fiction horror film written and directed by author Stephen King. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King’s short story Trucks, which …
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‘She lured them with her beauty and destroyed them with her sex’ Scream of the Butterfly is a 1965 American exploitation film directed by Argentinian Eber Lobato from a screenplay …
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‘You’ll be paralysed with fear…’ Target Earth is a 1954 American science fiction film directed by Sherman A. Rose from a screenplay by Bill Raynor, AIP’s James Nicholson and Wyott …
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The following books on cult, horror and sci-fi cinema are available for offline reading: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | …
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Horror films and westerns are two of cinema’s great mainstays, having established their distinct identities and sets of conventions in the earliest days of the medium. So distinct from each …
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‘Death is the new attraction’ Scream Park is a 2012 American horror slasher film written and directed by Cary Hill. It stars Doug Bradley, Nicole Beattie and Kailey Marie Harris. The …
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The Dungeonmaster, (originally titled Ragewar: The Challenges of Excalibrate and Digital Knights), is a 1984 American science fiction fantasy film with horrific elements, starring Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll and Leslie …
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‘A rock band gives their final performance on a hell bound trip into the outer reaches of horror!’ Night Train to Terror is a 1985 American horror film directed by John Carr, …
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‘People of Earth. You planet is about to be destroyed… We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience.’ TerrorVision is a 1986 American comedy science fiction horror film written and directed by …
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Dracula: The Dark Prince is a 2013 American horror film directed by Pearry Reginald Teo (The Curse of Sleeping Beauty; Necromenta; The Evil Inside) from a screenplay co-written with Steven Paul and Nicole Jones-Dion. In his …
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The Monkey’s Paw is a horror short story by W. W. Jacobs, published in England in 1902. The story involves Mr and Mrs White and their adult son, Herbert. Sergeant-Major Morris, a friend …
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Perhaps even more abundant than the ever-popular trend of adapting comic books into films, particularly Marvel’s ever expanding universe, is the very opposite, transposing popular characters from film onto the …
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Some animals are guaranteed to inspire feelings of disgust and fear in cinema audiences, and none more so than the humble rat. While a few people keep rats as pets, …
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Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American horror-comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Doctor Victor Frankenstein. The screenplay was co-written by Brooks and Wilder. …
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King Dinosaur is a 1955 American science fiction film about scientists sent to explore a planet and are terrorised by marauding monsters. Directed over a seven-day period by Bert I. Gordon in what was his …
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Graham Humphreys is a London-based English illustrator and graphic designer creating film posters, magazine illustrations, packaging, DVD inlay and book design. His distinctive rich, colourful style has graced many iconic films, starting with the …
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‘Weird atomic beasts who live off human blood!’ The Horror of Party Beach is a 1963 American horror film co-produced and directed by Del Tenney, which he himself described as “a take-off …
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Grabbers is a 2012 Irish-British monster movie directed by Jon Wright (The Little People; Robot Overlords; Tormented) and written by Kevin Lehane. The film stars Richard Coyle (Outpost II: Black Sun), Ruth Bradley, Bronagh Gallagher and Russell Tovey alongside an ensemble cast of …
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The Comedy of Terrors (1964) is an American comedy horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People; I Walked with a Zombie) and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and (in a cameo) Joe E. Brown in his final film appearance. It …
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Alfred Reginald Natzick aka Reggie Nalder/Detlef Van Berg/Detlas Van Burg Born in Vienna in what was then Austria-Hungary in 1907, or indeed any point during a twenty-year period around this time …
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Twisted Nerve is a 1968 British-American psychological thriller film directed by Roy Boulting about a disturbed young man, Martin, who pretends, under the name of Georgie, to be mentally retarded in order to be near Susan, a …
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