First of all let’s get the details out of the way, what was Ghostwatch? Well it was a BBC drama that aired on Halloween night 1992. It was produced and presented to the viewing public in such a way as to make it look like a ‘live’ factual programme, basically a serious investigation of a …
It’s been a hectic week but in amongst the chaos and work I’ve managed to refuel myself with 3 hits of horror, two old favourites and something new … The Exorcist 3. 1990 Over the years I’ve heard a lot of people say that The Exorcist 3 is underrated, I’m not sure I agree, surely …
If you took away everything that made Scream the movie that it was, you’d be left with precisely the sort of generic horror movie that Scream was poking fun at, and that’s pretty much the best possible way I can describe the movie I watched tonight. Released at the tail end of last year, that …
Chainsaw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie is written by Gunnar Hansen and it chronicles the making of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I could give a straight up review of this book but instead I’d like to take you on a little journey that, I hope, will support my review a …
How often do you get asked to suggest a movie choice for a friend or relative who has run out of ideas? When it comes to horror I find myself telling people to give The Descent a try every chance I get. In my humble opinion it’s a brilliant film, (thought I would get that …
There are so many horror-themed TV shows airing right now that I almost can’t even keep track of them all – and I certainly don’t have the time to watch them all. True Detective just came to an end this past Sunday night and The Walking Dead is currently wrapping up its fourth season, which …
Amazing, no. Beautiful, no. Brilliant, no. Dread, no. Ecstasy, no. Fascinating, no. Haunting, no. Horrifying, no. Incredible, no. Melancholy, no. Riveting, no. Shocking, no. We could go through every word in the dictionary and we’re still simply going to fall short of describing a masterpiece like True Detective. After Breaking Bad was over, I thought …
Millennium is another unfortunate example of an amazing, superb TV show being canceled. Millennium is often described as an X-Files spin-off, but that’s really not accurate. In fact if anything, an X-Files episode, appropriately named “Millennium” (season 7, episode 4), was a spin-off of Millennium or a hybrid, clash of the two shows. Despite several …
Alien 3 is a divisive movie, I’ve witnessed some seriously heated online debates over the years about certain Horror and Sci-Fi films but nothing comes close to the perfect storm of emotions that Alien 3 discussions tend to unleash. The first time I watched it was mid 1993 on a fuzzy, low quality VHS tape …
As I get older I find myself looking back to my childhood more and more … Occasionally I’ll suddenly remember something that my brain has stored away and a flood of memories will spill out, this piece is based on such a moment that happened just a few days ago. I was scribbling down ideas …
