Another in my sporadic series of interviews with indie horror directors. This one’s with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, regarding his clever remake… Read more The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Category: Horror
Ring
This is an overview of the complete Ring series so far, to coincide with the announcement of a third American instalment… Read more Ring
The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death
I wrote features for Empire and Fangoria about The Woman in Black: Angel of Death (the Americans added a 2… Read more The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death
Empire Review of 2014
Various retrospective 2014 features and lists went up daily on the Empire website during December. The following are the ones… Read more Empire Review of 2014
Night Visions Festival 2014
This was my third year at Night Visions in Helsinki, and as usual I came back with a lot of… Read more Night Visions Festival 2014
Tony Todd – Candyman interview
My third interview of three for Empire‘s 2014 horror week, since deleted from the Empire site so now re-posted in… Read more Tony Todd – Candyman interview
Robert Englund
The second of three interviews for Empire‘s Hallowe’en 2014 horror week. Since deleted from the site so re-posted in full… Read more Robert Englund
Pet Sematary’s Zelda – Andrew Hubatsek interview
An interview with the actor Andrew Hubatsek, who played the properly terrifying Zelda in Pet Sematary and psychologically scarred a… Read more Pet Sematary’s Zelda – Andrew Hubatsek interview
Evil Dolls
A piece timed for the release of Annabelle, the spin-off from James Wan’s The Conjuring about a killer doll possessed… Read more Evil Dolls
Unbelievable Sequels 2
A sequel to a feature about sequels! These are another 30 lesser-known follow-ups that mostly went straight to video or… Read more Unbelievable Sequels 2
Don Coscarelli
Another interview for the indie horror collection. This one’s with Don Coscarelli, director of the Phantasm series and, more recently,… Read more Don Coscarelli
Xan Cassavetes – Kiss of the Damned interview
Haven’t done one of these for a while, but this is a new entry in my indie horror directors series:… Read more Xan Cassavetes – Kiss of the Damned interview
Udo Kier
At long last, here’s my collection of rants, ramblings and gnomic utterances by Udo Kier from last year’s Night Visions… Read more Udo Kier
Night Visions 2013
For the second year running I was invited to the Night Visions genre film festival in Helsinki, and for the… Read more Night Visions 2013
Iron Sky 2: The Coming Race
At the 2013 Night Visions festival I spent some drinking time with Timo Vuorensola, the director of the Nazis-on-the-moon epic… Read more Iron Sky 2: The Coming Race
666 Great Horror Characters
This colossal piece for the Empire website was a joint effort by me, Chris Hewitt and Simon Crook (and designed… Read more 666 Great Horror Characters
Folk Horror
This ended up in two places: it was commissioned by Kier-La Janisse for Fangoria, but she also then published it… Read more Folk Horror
Hellblazer / Constantine
I wrote the following feature for Fangoria in early 2013, marking the end of Hellblazer at its 300th issue. It… Read more Hellblazer / Constantine
Simpsons Horror Tribute
Guillermo Del Toro supervised the opening sequence for the 2013 Simpsons Hallowe’en special (Treehouse of Horror XXIV), and in the spirit… Read more Simpsons Horror Tribute
Dark Tourist
An interview with the director Suri Krishnamma about his bleak psychological drama Dark Tourist. (I also used a quote from… Read more Dark Tourist
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