Tag Archive | "horror"

Brrrraiiinnnssss!!! Return of the Living Dead returns!

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Fellow lovers of a bit of fine, macabre, brain-munching comedy-horror rejoice, for Dan (Alien, Dark Star, Blue Thunder) O’Bannon’s 80s classic The Return of the Living Dead is shambling back into life, with a spanking new double edition DVD and its Blu Ray debut (with hours of special features) so you can enjoy the grey [...]

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Win The Revenant DVDs

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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Award-winning horror-action flick with a sense of humour (okay, a sick sense of humour, but that’s how we like it!) writer-director Kerry Prior’s The Revenant is out on DVD and Blu Ray on April 2nd. When soldier Bart is killed in Iraq only to wake up and find himself a Revenant, returned from the dead [...]

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An ABC of Horror

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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Stephen Wildish has created this fab alphabet of horror film work – how many horror flicks can you identify by his clever icon-like images? I think I got about two thirds of them myself – blame being around for that first wave of video nasties in the original home video boom, before regulation and censorship [...]

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Red Kingdom Rising

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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Red Kingdom Rising is a very intriguing new British Indy horror from Navin Dev, and one which, I am delighted to say, avoids the far too easy route some less skilled new film-makers take in creating a horror flick and thinking sudden jumps or needless splatter or sadistic torture equals genuine horror (not that I [...]

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Pingu’s The Thing

Friday, January 6, 2012

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This fab wee claymation animation not only condenses John Carpenter’s The Thing – a true modern classic of horror cinema – into just 60 seconds, it does it with the cast of Pingu! It even has the iconic scenes like the alien chest snapping closed on the doctor’s arms and that extending head into scuttling [...]

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Death of a doll

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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Coming up in time for the long, dark, chill, winter nights NBM has Inner Sanctum, a collection by the great Ernie Colón riffing on the classic 1940s radio horror show, classic chillers delivered in crisp black and white by Ernie. NBM’s Terry Nantier is enjoying it so much he’s posted an entire story from the [...]

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The horror… the horror of it all…

Monday, October 31, 2011

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As a ghoulish Halloween treat we thought the blog crew could have a rake through their repressed memories of terrifying moments from their comics reading. I’m a huge horror fan, from reprints of the old EC comics when I was a kid to Hammer films, then that first wave of Video Nasties during the home [...]

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Alex’s audio round up

Friday, October 28, 2011

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As the season of the witch beckons, here’s Alex Fitch, crawling forth from his crumbling tomb with audio shudders for the Halloween season. As ever for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site: I’m ready for my close-up: Buried land / Scorched Earth, Friday 28th October at 5pm [...]

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SciFi and Horror at the Edinburgh Film Fest

Friday, July 22, 2011

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Just over a couple of weeks ago I was enjoying my annual week off at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, taking in all sorts of cinema, from hard-hitting documentaries from modern combat reporters to stylish French crime thrillers. And of course I took in several science fiction and horror themed flicks along the way, so [...]

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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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