This Year's Rondo Awards

Nominations are in for this year's Rondo Awards. I'm very happy to have been nominated for my article 'Unleashing the Hounds of Zaroff' published in The Dark Side #196. There's loads of great work from people. Follow the link here to vote.

IN THE AFTERMATH (with a collector's booklet essay by me!) - released 6th May 2019

If you like post-apocalyptic anime/ New World Pictures B-movie mash-ups in the Roger Corman style, you'll love this Arrow release. First Pressing includes a booklet essay by me!

More details from ARROW here

Folk Horror in The Dark Side #199

Here's a sneak peak at my article on Folk Horror in British TV, coming soon in The Dark Side issue #199

Coming Soon in THE DARK SIDE MAGAZINE

A sneaky peak at a piece coming soon in THE DARK SIDE. James Whale battles with Hollywood Censor Joseph Breen over  THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN...

50 Years of Zombies (and Cenobites) - in SCREAM #52

In SCREAM #52 I take a look at the many meanings that critics have read into NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD over the years; go behind the scenes of HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II; and chronicle George A. Romero's struggles with distributors, the MPAA and the British censor (the BBFC's James Ferman actually re-edited the film) over his zombie epic, DAWN OF THE DEAD!

Blood, Guts, Gore and More!

In shops December 20th.

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!!!

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

HALLOWEEN - Wednesday 10th October at City Screen, York!

I'm introducing HALLOWEEN at City Screen, York!

In 10th October, I'm introducing a fortieth anniversary screening of the digitally restored and remastered HALLOWEEN at City Screen Picturehouse, York. There's also a pre-recorded introduction by John Carpenter!

For tickets and information visit the City Screen Picturehouse website