My third interview of three for Empire‘s 2014 horror week, since deleted from the Empire site so now re-posted in full here. ———- Unleashed in 1992, and based on a Clive Barker short story from a decade earlier, Candyman was a murdered slave, still haunting New Orleans as an urban legend come to life. Daniel… Continue reading Tony Todd
The second of three interviews for Empire‘s Hallowe’en 2014 horror week. Since deleted from the site so re-posted in full here. —– Robert Englund, star of nearly a hundred movies, eight of which make up one of the biggest horror franchises of all time, turns out to be a garrulous and entertaining interviewee. Far from… Continue reading Robert Englund
An interview with the actor Andrew Hubatsek, who played the properly terrifying Zelda in Pet Sematary and psychologically scarred a generation in the process. One of a trio of interviews with horror actors (the others were Robert England and Tony Todd) for the Empire website at Hallowe’en, 2014. Since deleted, along with all other text… Continue reading Pet Sematary’s Zelda
Originally published on the Empire blog on November 8, 2013. Winner of the audience award at last year’s Night Visions festival in Helsinki was Frank Pavich’s documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune (Filth came second and The World’s End placed third – take that, Gravity). This was the film I was most looking forward to seeing at the… Continue reading Jodorowsky’s Dune
In the book trade, “Super Thursday” in October is when all the big books, many of them celebrity autobiographies, are published for the run-up to Christmas. This feature is sort of for that, concentrating on particularly eye-opening film-related memoirs. Frank Langella (pictured) and Burt Ward are especially responsible for work you might wish you could… Continue reading Salacious Memoirs
A piece timed for the release of Annabelle, the spin-off from James Wan’s The Conjuring about a killer doll possessed by an evil death-cult member. Or a demon. I only saw the film last week and I already forget which it is. I think it’s both. Anyway, ten more scary dolls here, including, of course,… Continue reading Evil Dolls
A feature about actresses who didn’t kill their careers by being in a James Bond film. This one was sparked by the release of Gone Girl, David Fincher’s big-hitter in which Rosamund Pike has the female lead. So she hasn’t done too badly, for example. Ditto Diana Rigg and Famke Janssen. Some forumites and tweeters… Continue reading Bond Girls
