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June 13, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Campfire Tales at The Royal Hotel: Saturday June 11
Campfire Tales Saturday, June 11 The Royal Hotel, Featherston Campfire Tales, part of this year’s Booktown Festival in Featherston, ran across two nights at The Royal Hotel. A brilliant venue and setting for a set of ghostly stories read aloud by actors under candlelight. I went to Saturday’s show – the second performance. I’m told […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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.Archive
April 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
X: Film
X Director: Ti West A24 / Little Lamb / Mad Solar Productions Once in a while a film comes along, and you have very high expectations indeed. Almost so much so that it is a bit of a worry. But then, it’s movie night – and not only no worries, your high expectations are shot […]Archive
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 […]Archive
March 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Possessor: DVD
Possessor Director: Brandon Cronenberg Elevation Pictures / Signature Entertainment Possessor belongs to that dark and wonderful strain of film – the science fiction psychological horror. And director/writer Brandon Cronenberg is royalty within that genre. He’s been bubbling away under his own steam across the last decade. Anything he has grabbed from his father he has […]Archive
March 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas: Blood On Black Wax – Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl
Blood On Black Wax: Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas 1984 Publishing If you’re a fan of horror films at all that probably means you’re a fan of horror movie soundtracks. They are such a crucial element – the mood-maker, the world-builder, they are in fact a character in the film in […]Archive
February 26, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
The Marketing Genius of Friday The 13th
Most of the Friday the 13th movies don’t take place on Friday. It is not the 13th. And Jason is not the killer to begin with. Also, he doesn’t find his ‘look’ until the third film. That’s when he gets his hockey mask. Later in the series they will blast him into other bodies – for […]Archive
February 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Freddy Krueger Is White Male Privilege
With Freddy Krueger, it was the finger knives 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 – he’d rip open that garish red and green jersey to show you the swirling souls he stole. Quite how they […]Archive
February 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Horrorfying: Overdosing On Horror Films To Cure The Frights
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 a couple of years after that, we didn’t have a VCR any time early, it was always a trip across town to my auntie’s house and […]Archive
February 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman