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  • Rob Zombie, Horror Auteur or Hillbilly Skank?

    Rob Zombie, Horror Auteur or Hillbilly Skank?

    25th January 2010 | 7 comments | 1 person likes this

    February 1st sees the release of Rob Zombie's 'Halloween 2' on DVD and Blu-ray, and it's safe to say that even for horror's most divisive director this latest  film splits opinion as brutally as the violence it portrays. Auteur fetishism is a rather modern symptom of Hollywood, it's always existed to varying degrees but only in the past 30 years or so has the director become such a focal point...

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  • Remembering Horror’s Super Bowl

    Remembering Horror’s Super Bowl

    18th January 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Back in 2002 horror fans around the world were preparing themselves for a wet dream of Vesuvius proportions. Best of all this euphoric event was going to be a real motion picture, not some fan made Youtube effort. Two of horror's biggest and most fetishised icons were to appear in the same film at the same time for a slasher first. Freddy Krueger of The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise...

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  • French Zombies, Australian Ghosts, and Ski Lifts

    French Zombies, Australian Ghosts, and Ski Lifts

    14th January 2010 | 5 comments | 2 people like this

    As the movie reels closed on the previous decade it's a sad but unavoidable truth that we will look back on it as the ten year remake. Remakes of Asian visceral horror and 80s lowbrow slashers dominated the genre and topped producers' wishlists. They say horror comes in cycles, perhaps more than ever the next big horror cycle is hidden from view in a distant haze. But there are some...

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