Horror, sci-fi and fantasy culture: moving forwards and backwards at the same time
Fright Night: The Peter Vincent Chronicles – Issue Zero – is a 24-page original comic book based on a story by screenwriter/director Tom Holland (Fright Night franchise; Rock Paper Dead; Thinner). …
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While writing the script for Cloak & Dagger, Tom Holland amused himself when he conceived the idea of a horror-movie fan becoming convinced that his next door neighbor was a vampire, but he didn’t initially think this premise was enough to sustain a story. “What’s he gonna do,” Holland asked, “because everybody’s gonna think he’s mad!”
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‘Before the gospels, there was a first witness.’ Hellraiser: The Toll is a novella by Mark Alan Miller set between the events of Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart and The …
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Unspeakable Horrors: The Plan 9 Conspiracy is a 2016 American docu-film produced and directed by Jose Prendes. “From the producers who saw Room 237 comes the blistering truth about Edward …
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Child’s Play is a 1988 American supernatural horror feature film directed by Tom Holland (Rock Paper Dead; Twisted Tales; Thinner; Fright Night) from a screenplay by Don Mancini, who went on to write six …
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1999 Audition The Blair Witch Project Camp Blood – Brad Sykes, USA End of Days – Peter Hyams, USA The Haunting Hell aka Jigoku House on Haunted Hill Lake Placid – …
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Scored to Death: Conversations with Some of Horror’s Greatest Composers is a 2016 book by author J. Blake Fichera, published by Silman-James Press. The book collects together fourteen interviews with renowned …
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‘Everyone’s dying to play!’ Rock Paper Dead is a 2017 American horror thriller directed by Tom Holland (Twisted Tales; Thinner; Child’s Play; Fright Night) from a screenplay by Kerry Fleming and Victor …
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Fright Night Part 2 is a 1988 American horror comedy film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (Halloween III: Season of the Witch; It; Vampires: Los Muertos ) from a screenplay co-written with Tim …
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‘Let the curse fit the crime.’ Thinner – aka Stephen King’s Thinner – is a 1996 American body horror film directed by Tom Holland (Rock Paper Dead; Child’s Play; Fright Night) from a screenplay …
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Masters of Horror is an American anthology-style television series created by director Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers; The Stand; Bag of Bones; Psycho IV) for the Showtime cable network. In 2002, director Mick …
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The ‘Recommended Horror Films’ in the following list those that HORRORPEDIA suggests are better than the average genre fare and well-worth viewing. To see our separate list of must-see, genre-defining, …
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‘Wanna see some monsters? Grab a shovel.’ Digging Up the Marrow is a 2014 film written, directed, executive produced by, and starring Adam Green (Hatchet trilogy; Frozen) as himself along …
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The Beast Within is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Philippe Mora (Howling II and Howling III). The bladder transformation effects were created by Tom Burman (Cat People) and the …
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‘Alone and afraid… was she imagining or was it real…’ Teenager Christie Cromwell (Rachael Kelly) discovers that her stepfather and his cronies are trying to murder her mother and then …
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The films on this ‘Essential’ list are important in terms of their global impact on the horror movie genre, either for their box office draw, artistic merit, cult credibility, or simple shock value. …
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Psycho II is a 1983 American slasher horror film directed by Richard Franklin from a screenplay by Tom Holland. It is the sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and stars Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia and Meg Tilly. The original music score was …
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