Wednesday 31 October 2018

In The Dark Side #196 - THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME



In The Dark Side #196 I take a look at THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932), a fascinating example of how studios in the pre-Code era were able to sneak graphic screen content into their movies...

Why not treat yourself to a copy for Halloween?

SCREAM #51 - out now!


How cool is this cover???

In SCREAM #51 I write about DAWN OF THE DEAD and THE REDEEMER: SON OF SATAN!

Pick up your copy for Halloween - while stocks last!!!

Tuesday 30 October 2018

My love letter to Night of The Living Dead for the BFI.


'Premiering 50 years ago, on 1 October 1968, George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is often spoken of as a manifesto for the modern horror film. 

Taking its inspiration from the racial and political strife of late-60s America, it created, as a BFI programme booklet put it in 2004, "a verite nightmare which overturned the conventions of fantastical horror".

Romero took the genre out of its gothic castles and swept away the cobwebs. Night of the Living Dead marked a transition in horror cinema: from the classic to the modern. Less remarked upon, though, is how Romero effects this transition within the film itself, it its opening scenes.'

To read the rest of my BFI article on Night of the Living Dead, go here