Derby festival presents four top British horror directors
Derby Quad is staging a new film festival next month called iD Fest ("celebrating identity through film") and among the programme is a discussion panel with four leading lights of the British Horror...
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Here's an interesting interview with Kim Newman, ostensibly about old British horror films but with some discussion of the British Horror Revival too.BHR titles which he mentions include Eden Lake,...
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Rue Morgue 'British horror' special
The next issue of Rue Morgue magazine is a subtly branded British Horror Special. And while most of the contents is predictably about old horror topics, including The Wicker Man and Peter Cushing,...
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British horror titles on The Horror Show VOD services
The Horror Show, a UK-based VOD service "created for, and curated by horror fans", officially launches next month and they already have a few titles online including three interesting BHR...
View ArticleFirst trailer for The Dead 2!
The Ford Bothers' The Dead is, in my judgement, the best British zombie film ever made. So you can imagine how excited I am to see the new trailer for The Dead II: India, which transposes the action to...
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Richard Driscoll convicted of fraud, awaiting sentence
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Richard Driscoll, the most colourful character in British horror cinema, has today been found guilty of defrauding the Inland Revenue to the tune of £1.5...
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More on Richard Driscoll and Eldorado
My blog post yesterday has now been viewed a whopping 444 times, and the story has now reached the trades:Hollywood ReporterScreen InternationalThis piece in the Daily Star has a bit more detail than...
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Fangoria reviews Urban Terrors
Issue 324 of Fangoria contains a terrific review of my book Urban Terrors: New British Horror Cinema, written by Ashley Thorpe (no mean film-maker himself)."What emerges," writes Ashley, "is an...
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Cute Little Buggers - a British Critters?
Tony Jopia, director of rock'n'roll horror Deadtime and currently finishing off his werewolf feature Crying Wolf, has revealed the poster for his next project. Cute Little Buggers sounds like a British...
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Seasoning House in cinemas this Friday
Paul Hyett's acclaimed directorial debut The Seasoning House has its UK theatrical release this week - Friday 21st June. It's playing four cinemas in London and two in the rest of the country:Apollo...
View ArticleAl Ronald in short horror-comedy
Here's a fun little horror-comedy directed by a stills photographer and starring a cinematographer. Debbie Attwell produced Al Ronald's segments of Bordello Death Tales and Nazi Zombie Death Tales and...
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Little Deaths coming to UK DVD in August
Little Deaths, a powerful and shocking anthology from three of the best British horror directors working today, will be released on UK DVD on 12th August by Monster Pictures. The film is a...
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Richard Driscoll sentenced to three years
The world of British horror film-making was rocked to its foundations today with the shock news that 'Honest' Richard Driscoll, popular and talented film-maker of no fixed abode, has been sentenced to...
View ArticleBritish slasher 'The Clown' on YouTube
If you wait long enough, everything turns up somewhere. To my surprise and delight, Dominic Holmes' unreleased 2007 slasher The Clown has appeared on YouTube. Expect a review soon - or you can watch it...
View ArticleNew zombie short: Attack of the Unliving
Micro-budget zombie shorts are ten-a-penny of course but there's something special about this one that I can't quite put my finger on...
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Win 'The Dead 2' prizes including props, premiere party tickets etc
The Dead 2: India, the sequel to (in my opinion) the best British zombie film ever, is set to premiere as the opening film at Film 4 FrightFest in London on 22nd August. As part of the promotional...
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Borley Rectory - forthcoming short from Ashley Thorpe
Ashley Thorpe, who makes extraordinarily good animated horror shorts (as well as writing and painting stuff for Fangoria), is working on a new film, a 20-minute animation about notorious haunted house...
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Wasteland screening needs zombies
New British zombie feature Wasteland has a cast and crew screening at the Showcase De Luxe, Derby on 24th August - and you could get in to see the film. The producers want a bunch of zombies lurking...
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Navin Dev directs 'The Judas Curse'
Navin Dev, director of the marvellous Red Kingdom Rising, is working on a new feature."The Judas Curse is a horror film that seeks to recreate the classic, down and dirty style of the 1970s typical of...
View Article'The Shadow of Death' on YouTube
The Shadow of Death, directed by Gav Chuckie Steel, is the latest BHR title to be posted in its entirety on YouTube. Gav posted it online back in June but I've only just become aware.Gav actually sent...
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