Guts Reaction: League of Gentlemen Christmas Special
My off the cuff thoughts on The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special.
Read MoreGuts Reaction: The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Takes the people we trust to look violent death in the eye – forensic pathologists – and strips them down…
Read MoreThe Haunting of Hill House
It was as if Shirley Jackson's classic novel had been haunting me from the future…
Read MoreMaynard's House by Herman Raucher
A beautifully-written haunted house story which plumbs incredible depths of creepiness.
Read MoreTitle Fright - Train to Busan versus World War Z
I initially intended to pair Train to Busan with La Horde, but Twitter said no.
Read MoreThe Core S1 E2: Butchery of the blenders
To illustrate the point, they stuck their hands in blenders and played Russian Roulette with the plugs…
Read MoreThe Core episode 1 - FlyLo and Freaks
Shudder's new talkshow feels a bit like a warm hug. If loving horror is an orientation, then here is a place to identify and relate.
Read MoreTwit Follows: @PsychToday
Psychology Today's twitter feed is great for everybody - horror fans, writers, couples, single people, parents, depressives, manics, Donald Trump.... everybody…
Read MoreMindhunter
Like drinking fine wine - it doesn't stun you with sadistic murders, it lets the subtle undertones of the psychopathic rise up slowly on your palette…
Read MoreHell House LLC
Never mind how Hell House LLC compares with other found footage films. It's a nearly perfect horror movie, period.
Read MoreA Cure for Wellness
Self-indulgent, far too long and wildly overblown, but I still liked it a great deal…
Read MoreWhy is Stranger Things so good?
We’ve seen all the elements before – it’s saturated with cultural references – and there’s a lot of other good stuff out there. Why has it taken Breaking Bad’s crown as king of our small screens?
Read MoreI went to see Stewart Lee last night.
Lee is a controversial UK stand-up, very left-wing with a cantankerous on-stage persona.
Read MoreTitle Fright: Alien vs Predator
My husband was quite disgusted by my Deadgirl v The Corpse of Anna Fritz blog, and asked why I didn’t do Alien versus Predator like ‘a normal woman’…
Read MoreDigital edition of original 1990s Splits leaflet
A higher quality version from a friend's digital archive. A big improvement on the one I found down the back of the couch and scanned in. Please share.
Read MoreTitle Fright: Deadgirl vs The Corpse of Anna Fritz!
Why pit Deadgirl (2008) against The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015)? Well, they are both about young men who have sex with dead women…
Read MoreOriginal 1990s Splits leaflet
In the 1990s there was a major public health campaign about Scott-Lapidot Disease - AKA 'the Splits' - which aimed to clear up a number of persistent myths about the illness. I found an original leaflet from that campaign tucked down the back of my aunt's sofa. I've scanned it so I can post it up for anyone who's interested. Well worth a look, I think. It's pretty accurate about the symptoms even if it's got the root causes of Scott-Lapidot Disease (SLD) totally wrong.
Front of leaflet
Back of leaflet
How New York does Spooky
Yes, yes, yes, I know, Halloween is over. I've told my husband, who took these photos, all about news values but he says I'm just 'old media'. He is insisting I do this post so here goes.
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