Tag Archive | "horror"

The Jar

Monday, July 18, 2011

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Fiend is a new horror magazine “following in the footsteps of the illustrated horror magazines of the 60s, 70s and 80s”, which is no bad thing as far as I am concerned – some of those mags and the reprints of earlier, classic horror comics were my earliest exposure to the horror genre (along with [...]

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Joe Hill talks to Matt Staggs

Monday, March 21, 2011

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That fine chap Matt Staggs talks to the excellent Joe Hill on Suvudu about his novels while he was on the road to promote his second book, Horns (much recommended, I have to say, as is his first full length prose novel, Heart Shaped Box, which is a superbly creepy ghost story), and his acclaimed [...]

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Chatter

Sunday, November 21, 2010

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Leo Resnes’ short film Chatter may not be comics or SF but it does have a nice, creeping horror vibe to it, so I’m guessing quite a few of you will enjoy it as much as I did. It’s not the first time I’ve seen someone using live websites as a device in a thriller/horror, [...]

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His Face All Red

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

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Jennifer McMahon and Dom Conlon pointed me to this delightfully creepy short horror comic tale by Emily Carroll, His Face All Red. A rural pub scene, happy drinkers, warm atmosphere and one figure standing a little apart, regarding the man who is the centre of attention as usual, his far more popular brother. Except he [...]

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Universal sculpts

Friday, October 1, 2010

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This brilliant sculpture of the classic Frankenstein’s monster is by Adam “KreatureKid” Dougherty, who sculpts all sorts, from superheroes to dinosaurs, but his first love is the classic Universal horror monsters like the Jack Pierce make-up version of the Frankenstein Monster portrayed by the great Boris Karloff above and the Creature From the Black Lagoon. [...]

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Walking Dead behind the scenes

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Enjoy a glimpse behind the scene of the forthcoming AMC TV adaptation of Kirkman and Adlard’s brilliant Walking Dead series which hits the US screens this autumn and the UK screens fairly soon afterwards (I haven’t seen a date yet, but FX in the UK have been showing clips from it in their upcoming new [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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It’s Thursday once more and that means Alex Fitch has to stop playing conkers in the playground to fill us in on some of the shows he’s involved with in the next few days. As ever for more details and podcasts of previous programmes you can check the Panel Borders site: Panel Borders: AC / [...]

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More Walking Dead

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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Following the videos of the Walking Dead TV series panel at San Diego Comic Con we blogged about a few days ago, Matt Staggs points us to Suvudu who has video reports with the cast and crew of the show from a press only panel. Have I mentioned how much I’m looking forward to this [...]

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Walking Dead panel

Monday, July 26, 2010

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TFAW has been busy posting up video from the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con (check their YouTube channel here), including, I couldn’t help but notice, a panel with Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and Frank Darabont and others discussing the eagerly anticipated television adaptation of Kirkman and Adlard’s brilliant The Walking Dead zombie comics series, [...]

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Win a copy of 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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Tim Sullivan’s HG Lewis inspired horror flick 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams is due out on DVD and Blu-Ray on the 26th of July, but you can win your own copy on DVD without spending a penny by entering the competition on our webstore.

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Thought Bubble serves up comics video feast!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Following on from yesterday’s post on the first part of a panel discussing horror comics at last year’s Thought Bubble festival in sunny Leeds the TB folks have been busy posting up more segments so now the whole panel discussion with Charlie Adlard, Sean Phillips, Antony Johnston and Ben Templesmith -- with Martin Grund chairing [...]

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The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Won’t Somebody Please think of the children?

Monday, March 22, 2010

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The BBC’s Scottish site looks back to the 1950s and Glasgow’s vast Southern Necropolis, where a policeman has been called to investigate a group of children. PC Deeprose expected to find petty, childish vandalism and given the era no doubt was thinking he’d be doing nothing more than providing a clip round the ear to [...]

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Do zombies read comics?

Monday, March 22, 2010

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Thought Bubble Comics channel on YouTube has posted up a nearly ten minute video, part one of a panel discussion from last year’s Thought Bubble recorded in Saville Hall in Leeds with Charlie Adlard, Sean Phillips, Anthony Johnston and Ben Templesmith all discussing horror comics:

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The campaign for real fear

Friday, March 12, 2010

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Maura McHugh has news of a short story competition that should interest all our readers with a creative bent: “What are the horror myths for the 21st century? Sure, we all love our werewolves and vampires, but where are the new monsters for our age? Where are the characters that reflect the diversity in our [...]

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Animated zombies

Monday, February 8, 2010

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We’ve had plenty of zombie comics, movies and prose recently but here’s a short teaser trailer for A.D., a CG-animated zombie flick, directed by Ben Hibon (Codehunters) and produced by Bernie Goldmann (300), Tarik Heitmann and Renee Tab.Its currently looking for a home at a studio -- I know a lot of studios will just [...]

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