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  • Manchester Short Puts Bite into the British Indie Scene

    Manchester Short Puts Bite into the British Indie Scene

    1st July 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    Deadly Movies Takes a Look at Indie Horror Short 'Mark Macready and The Archangel Murders' and Interviews producer and star Ryan McDermott

    'Mark Macready and The Archangel Murders' is a 30 minute short made by a group of Manchester based Indie filmmakers. The short has developed a sizable online following and has been gaining momentum and buzz on the UK and International festival scene (Including the Horror UK Film Festival and...

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  • The Game Comes Full Circle (well at least six sevenths)

    The Game Comes Full Circle (well at least six sevenths)

    1st March 2010 | 1 comments | 2 people like this

    The Movie

    The biggest, most successful sequential horror franchise of the past 20 years roles on to entry number six. Sequential is an apt term indeed for the SAW franchise. The franchise bares a passing resemblance to slick, high budget, episodical US TV shows like CSI, except of course for the vivid violence and lovingly gratuitous scenes of torture. The SAW franchise's episodical quality is certainly an aesthetic quality that distinguishes...

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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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  • 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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