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September 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Watching Donald Pleasance In The Halloween Films

Donald Pleasance in those Halloween films, hanging on every line chewing the scenery and spitting out clichés, doing the best he can to be so bad Michael Myers walks so slowly that even with that big knife you could just break into a wee jog, a tiny sweat and be done with it all. But […]

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March 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Getting Ready For Freddy

A Nightmare On Elm Street was the one that cured me from getting scared – or worried at all – by horror films. The entire franchise, I mean. Not just the first film. But certainly the first four are the ones I adore. Well, number two is a bit shit (sorry!) But it gets a […]

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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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January 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: The Shining

So much could have gone wrong…that night I was hiding in the wheelie-bin. It had been emptied, scrubbed clean, and we thought it a funny joke for me to hide in there with an axe… Okay, back-up. You see, one summer we had an aunty and uncle staying with us, they’d just moved back to […]

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August 31, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Wes Craven

Sad news in just now that Wes Craven has died. He’s one of my heroes when it comes to the modern horror movie (his Nightmare on Elm Street series) – and then of course the meta-horror film (the hugely popular Scream series). I was such a Craven fan I even bought – and read (and […]