horror

A zombie book without zombies could be the tagline for the young adult novel Zom-B. The story revolves around B who struggles with being a bully at school, an abusive father at home whom is teaching her how to be racist when she knows underneath being racist is wrong
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They thought it was a plague, but it is what came in the days that followed the deaths of 99% of the world’s population that truly terrifies. For Michael, it means leaving behind his dead family in the hopes they won’t reanimate and to navigate world of awakening zombie herds whose condition might be worse than imagined.
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Like his last film, SightSeers, Ben Wheatley’s new film is a particularly English affair. With plot elements and characters surrounding alchemy, divination, psychedelic mushrooms and the English Civil War, it could not be considered a ‘Hollywood chasing’ mainstream effort.
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Director James Wan has made quite a name for himself in the horror genre. Going down the ‘based on true story’ path The Conjuring happens in 1971 and is the tale of The Perron’s – a family of seven, Mum, Dad and five daughters. When they move into a farm house the strange happening start and after one particularly harrowing night the Perron family go looking for help in the form of paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren.

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2013 has already seen some pretty huge films hit the cinema screens of the world. Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness and Man Of Steel have seemed to …
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The ‘found footage’ genre of movie making has been around for quite a while, but ever since its resurgence in the late 90s following the success of ‘The Blair Witch Project’, many have tried to use this method, but not always with great success. Does ‘The Troll Hunter’ stand out from the crowd, or was the footage best left ‘undiscovered’?
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Dr. Jekyll is mild mannered, intellectual, quiet, and known for his impeccable taste in wine. Mr. Hyde is short, loathsome, and thoroughly evil. So why does Jekyll’s will clearly state that Hyde is to inherit Jekyll’s entire estate upon his death…or disappearance?
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Unless your name is Rip Van Winkle or you’ve been sleeping in a coffin the past few years and know nothing of vampires, Dracula will be very familiar to you. There are stakes, holy water, extreme and acute anemia, and perhaps surprising to a few of you: no sparkles.
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Technology is as old as the first tool and stories are as old as speech, but the first science fiction novel is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Written in 1818, it is the classic which spawned a Golden Age of science fiction literature and monster movies.
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Herein lies a movie that takes nearly every teen trope, slaps them together in a story, films it and then has the wherewithal to ask people to actually pay …
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Evil Dead is a remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 classic. The film, directed by Fede Alvarez, stays close to the source material, but this version lacks suspension and the quirky charm of the original. Evil Dead wants to be a gorier outing than the original, but it’s not, and the absence of a charismatic lead makes the film feel like an exercise in mimicry instead of the creation of something new. Read More

Aging rock star Judas Coyne spends his retirement living off his royalties and collecting horrific items. When he hears someone is selling a ghost in an online auction it is too good to resist. The ghost is delivered in a heart-shaped box but it is soon clear it wants to destroy Judas. Comic book writer and novelist Joe Hill’s 2007 novel combines the horror of the occult with the cycle of abuse with disturbing but delightful results.
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