This colossal piece for the Empire website was a joint effort by me, Chris Hewitt and Simon Crook (and designed by Amar Vijay and Olly Gibbs). The lower depths of the list were kind of the most fun part; I’m especially amused I got Peter Bark in there. Update: Since the relaunch of the Empire… Continue reading 666 Great Horror Characters
This ended up in two places: it was commissioned by Kier-La Janisse for Fangoria, but she also then published it on her own site, Spectacular Optical. The occasion was a double-bill at Los Angeles’ Beyond Fest of Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England and Elliot Goldner’s The Borderlands, and the brief was to provide an… Continue reading Folk Horror
With news of a developing NBC series based around Vertigo Comics‘ character John Constantine, I put together this guide to Hellblazer, and the storylines that might or might not work on television. Purely speculative, obviously, but I like Hellblazer. I recently came to the horrifying realisation that I’ve been reading it for twenty years… http://www.empireonline.com/features/best-hellblazer-comic-stories/… Continue reading Hellblazer / Constantine
Guillermo Del Toro supervised the opening sequence for the 2013 Simpsons Hallowe’en special (Treehouse of Horror XXIV), and in the spirit of Empire‘s trailer breakdowns, I put together this guide to its references and in-jokes. I think we got them all eventually… http://www.empireonline.com/features/simpsons-halloween-guillermo-del-toro-movie-references
