Tag Archive | "horror"

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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Feels Like Stephen King

Monday, February 1, 2010

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Feels Like Stephen King written by Steven Deighan, illustrated by Terry Cooper Dark Monster Publications I’ve never really liked Stephen King, so a graphic novel with that title was always going to be a hard sell for me. But this debut piece of comic work – at 42 pages it’s more graphic short story than [...]

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Walking Dead gets TV pilot

Friday, January 22, 2010

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Slashfilm is reporting that the proposed television adaptation of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s brilliant Walking Dead comic series that we blogged about several weeks back has moved a step closer – Frank ‘Shawshank Redemption’ Darabont pitched the idea to AMC who have now commissioned a pilot. “This is not about zombies popping out of [...]

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Robert Englund at Nostalgia and Comics

Thursday, December 3, 2009

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The great Robert Englund graced our Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham this week and Dave from N&C tells me that he was a real delight, utterly charming his fans and staff alike and telling them some great stories while signing copies of Hollywood Monster. I’m quite jealous, would have been wonderful to meet him, [...]

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One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…

Friday, November 20, 2009

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One, two, Freddy’s coming for you, three four, better lock your door... Yes, folks, we have horror icon Robert Englund coming soon. Englund has been well known and beloved of SF and horror genre fans for many years, appearing in a large number of productions from playing the good alien in the original V mini-series [...]

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Walking Dead set for the TV?

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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It looks like Image’s The Walking Dead may be heading to small screens, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Oscar nominated writer and director Frank Darabont ( Shawshank Redemption) has apparently been developing the idea of a TV series based on Robert Kirkman’s tales for some time and will be involved in writing, directing and [...]

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