Category Archives: Horror

Hammer Wakes Up in the Woods

Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 by Robert Hood

The thing about Hammer Film’s iconic versions of Frankenstein and Dracula is that the monster doctor and the vampiric monster lord always return. You just can’t kill ’em! Seems we can say the same thing about the studio itself. Not … Continue reading →

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New Publication: Creeping in Reptile Flesh

Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

Creeping in Reptile Flesh is a new collection of stories, gathered around a loose (a very loose) theme that is dictated by the title story — a 20,000 word novella that can be described this way (to quote from the … Continue reading →

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New: The Halfway House

Posted on Sunday, September 14, 2008 by Robert Hood

The Halfway House (US-2004; dir. Kenneth J. Hall) looks like a Lovecraftian-inspired schlock horror flick, described by its director thus: Young girls are disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls. Desperate to find out what … Continue reading →

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Review: Monster From Bikini Beach

Posted on Saturday, September 13, 2008 by Robert Hood

To fully appreciate Monster From Bikini Beach (US-2008; dir. Darin Wood) you have to take the “Truth in Advertising” approach to criticism. Look at the title. Right? Now what do you expect to find in this movie? Cheesy monsters? Bikini-clad … Continue reading →

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New Publication: Black Issue 2

Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

The latest — and second — issue of the magazine BLACK: Australian Dark Culture is about to be released, and it’s a superb one. Apart from the regular columnists, the issue includes a chthonian cornucopia of articles on new dark … Continue reading →

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New: Voices

Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008 by Robert Hood

Hotel rooms can be very creepy places and have occasionally been the setting for horror stories and films. The Stephen King-based ghost flick 1408 (US-2007; dir. Mikael Håfström) springs to mind. Now Morrigan Books is about to release Voices, an … Continue reading →

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Spike Makes A Point

Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 by Robert Hood

Sometimes fairy tales make excellent (or at least interesting) horror films. Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) [aka El Laberinto del Fauno] is something of an epitomé of the approach, of course; but others, such as Michael Cohn’s Snow White: … Continue reading →

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J.T. Petty’s The Burrowers

Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2008 by Robert Hood

My awareness of J.T. Petty’s work, as writer and director, is pretty well restricted to Mimic: Sentinel (2003) — the third film in the series that originated with Guillermo Del Toro’s Mimic (1997) and one that hasn’t gained much of … Continue reading →

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Watch Me … and Die!

Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 by Robert Hood

Australia’s entry in the J-Horror revolution begun with (or at least given its major impetus by) Ring [aka Ringu] (Japan-1998, dir. Hideo Nakata) is a low-budget supernatural horror film called Watch Me. Watch Me (Australia-2006, dir. Melanie Ansley) Starring Frances … Continue reading →

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The Hotel Room

Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 by Robert Hood

The story goes that Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy were keen to make a miniseries of it, but cost and backroom politics seem to have killed that. We’re talking about Stephen King and Peter Straub’s fantasy The Talisman here, the … Continue reading →

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