The Guardian is reporting that the upcoming Nightmare on Elmstreet remake has added an impressive member to its team. It was announced yesterday that they have hired a scriptwriter of some acclaim. Wesley Strick is now officially working on the new film. Many of you may, if you like keeping track of writers, recognize Wesley […]

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Why are we so serious? I tend to think it’s because we as horror fans are consumed by this one, relatively irrational, fear that one day all good horror will die out on us. I know a great independent horror director, and I’d like to think a friend of the site, thinks it is dying. […]

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I’m sure many of you will have heard just about all your friends who love horror (if you have any) complain about the evil PG-13 rating ruining true horror. I myself have written an article touching on the subject of PG-13 and its effect on horror. Inevitably, it is true that ratings are indicative of […]

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The story of the Yorkshire Ripper is about to be made into a film, or more specifically a film trilogy, by Channel 4 and Revolution Films. The trilogy will be based on three of the four books in the “Red Riding Quartet” by Daniel Peace. The first of these three films will be Julian Jarrold, […]

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I think a crypto-normative title of a news-blog editorial is so pretentious, but when you have some obstreparous young writer on a key-board, these are the kinds of titles you are given. Not surprising, these are also the general types of horror, somewhat more creatively named, which I find myself drawn to. To me, good […]

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There are very few films that can truly go wrong when the concept of the Devil is introduced. For my part, I’m always enticed when something that is intended to represent absolute evil comes about. Even moreso when I hear a story that will be about the concept of the devil, God, and our mere […]

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Many of us horror fans will by now be very familiar with the sense of Deja Vu that seems to accompany being a horror fan these days. I don’t mean in some strange Matrix-esque style of reliving ones life, but rather that almost more bizarre feeling of having seen something on our TV (or in […]

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I was recently hit with paraskavedekatriaphobia. Well, technically it was more likely to be paraskavedekatriamotum, because I was not struck by fear, so much as bitchslapped my lady fortune herself. Macchiavelli once wrote “fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her” but he […]

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I’ve often been painted with a fairly unfortunate brush. In my case, it’s the curse of being the American surfer dude who is actually a European intellectual (loosely speaking, perhaps), all of which is prompted by my long hair and baggy clothing. If I then explain that I am a horror-movie loving metal-head, who just […]

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The name Jaques Verges will mean very little to most average movie-goers. To say that a documentary of his life will mean even less no doubt as people assume it is yet another frenchman who is famous for diving under water, or being a mime. Those who gloss over a documentary about Jaques Verges will […]

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