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February 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: I Used To Be Scared of Horror Films So I Watched Every Single One From The Local Video Store And Now I’m Cured

When I was a kid a rather stupid movie had a deep impact on me. It’s called Alligator. It’s from about 1980 – and I reckon we saw it just a few years after that. And in it, a pet alligator gets flushed down the loo. It ends up in the sewer where the bodies […]

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May 1, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1379

Pino Donaggio, The Howling [OST] (1981) The music from The Howling has long been one of my favourites; it does what I want from a horror-film soundtrack – chiefly: scares the shit out of me. The film was one of a handful I was profoundly affected by as a youngster. I was traumatised by a […]