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May 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Apparently The 30 Best Horror Films Of All Time

The list is just a meme, shared recently when it was Friday the 13th, hence that film title is highlighted. But I looked through the list and realised quickly I had seen 29 of the 30. This, according to one million votes, was the list of the Best Horror Movies of All Time. And I […]
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May 18, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Halloween Kills: DVD

Halloween Kills Director: David Gordon Green Universal Sony Pictures P/I I finally caught up with Halloween Kills – now streaming and on DVD, I had missed its brief cinema run and was disappointed, having rewatched most of the franchise in anticipation.
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March 31, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Reading The Back Cover

In horror movies the villain always comes back. This is because the villain is actually the hero. It’s the special secret of horror films. Special, because it’s not so secret. In life you can never go back, you shouldn’t go back – leave a flat or finish a job or end a relationship and that […]
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January 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Scream (5): Film

Scream Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett Spyglass Media Group / Project X Entertainment / Paramount Pictures Scream (aka Scream 5) is both sequel and reboot – a “requel” as the very knowing and cracking-good script tells us. It features the big names from the original – back as second-generation helpers. And of course a […]
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October 15, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

In Praise of The “Final Girl” Trope

The “Final Girl” is a trope in horror films – the term was coined by academic, Carol Jeanne Clover in her 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A brilliant examination of the slasher boom across the mid-70s and 1980s. The “Final Girl” trope is something I’ve been aware of […]
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August 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 23: Misery

I first saw Misery when it came out on VHS tape. I remember it vividly. If it wasn’t the first Stephen King adaptation I saw, it was the first to have real impact. I was in Gisborne, summer holidays. A small bunch of us staying at a friend’s house, watching Return of the Living Dead […]
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June 28, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Nightmares On Mainstream

The finger knives were the thing that hooked us, if you’ll pardon that obvious pun. We were so into Freddy – a horror ghoul with no heart and soul of his own, but he’d rip open that garish red and green jersey to show you the swirling souls he stole. Quite how they made Elm […]
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March 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Elvis Perkins: The Blackcoat’s Daughter

Elvis Perkins The Blackcoats’s Daughter [OST] Death Waltz Recording Company In the mid/late 2000s Elvis Perkins made a couple of terrific singer/songwriter albums – he was part Paul Simon, part Van Morrison – but most importantly the biggest part of him was something other; was Elvis Perkins. He arrived on the scene back-loaded with back-story, […]
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