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Delusion (aka The House Where Death Lives)
Delusion (Also known as The House Where Death Lives) is a 1980 American horror film directed and co-produced by Alan Beattie, and starring Patricia Pearcy (Squirm), Joseph Cotten (The Abominable Dr....
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Night Train to Terror
Night Train to Terror is a 1985 independent American horror film directed by John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, Gregg C. Tallas, and written by Phillip Yordan and has...
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The Hounds of the Baskervilles: Holmesian Horror in Film and TV (article)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories – and the ongoing industry spun off from them – have a curious connection to the horror genre. The image of the master detective, stalking the...
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Pulgasari
Pulgasari (also known as Bulgasari) is a 1985 North Korean film directed by Shin Sang-ok and Chong Gon Jo. The film, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla series, was produced by the...
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Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat is a 1986 horror film directed by Charles Martin Smith (The Beast, 1996) and produced by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG), starring Marc Price (Killer Tomatoes Eat France), Tony...
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Mike Vraney (founder of Something Weird video)
Mike Vraney was the founder of Something Weird Video, an American film distributor company based in Seattle, Washington. On January 2, 2014, he died after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He was...
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Eerie Publications (publisher of comic magazines)
Eerie Publications was a publisher of black-and-white horror-anthology comics magazines. Less well-known and more downscale than the field’s leader, Warren Publishing (Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella), the...
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Electric Frankenstein (rock band)
Electric Frankenstein is an American rock band from Whippany, Clifton, and other areas of New Jersey, founded by Sal Canzonieri. Their music is generally considered punk rock, but includes elements of...
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Slime (toys and novelties)
Slime was a toy product manufactured by Mattel, sold in a plastic rubbish bin and introduced in the winter of 1976 consisting of a non-toxic viscous, oozing green material made primarily from guar...
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Slither (novel)
Slither is a horror novel by British author John Halkin, first published in 1980 by Hamlyn Paperbacks. It is not connected to the 2006 film of the same title. The book is very much in the tradition of...
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Clownhouse
Clownhouse is a 1989 American horror film written and directed by Victor Salva. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic category at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival. Clownhouse was...
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Demons
Demons (Italian: Dèmoni) is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by Dario Argento, starring Urbano Barberini and Natasha Hovey. The screenplay was written by Bava,...
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Riz Ortolani (composer)
Riziero “Riz” Ortolani was an Italian film composer. Born on 25 March 1926, he recently died in Rome, aged 87 years-old. In the early 1950s Ortolani began his musical career as a founder and member of...
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Chewits ‘Monster Muncher’
Chewits is the brand name of a British chewy, cuboid-shaped, soft taffy sweet manufactured by Cloetta since 1965. Chewits have been available in a variety of increasingly exotic flavours since their...
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Richard Lewis (author)
Richard Lewis was a novelist who emerged during the British horror fiction boom of the late 1970s, then vanished once that boom turned to bust. Over a few short years, he churned out several pulp in...
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Cannibal Corpse (death metal rock band)
Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in 1988, the band has released twelve studio albums, two box sets, four video albums and one live album. The band has had...
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Attack of the Rats! Rodents in the Cinema
Some animals are guaranteed to inspire feelings of disgust and fear in cinema audiences, and not more so than the humble rat. While many people keep rats as pets, even they will see a difference...
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The Woman in Black (1989)
The Woman in Black is a 1989 British TV movie, and is the first adaptation of the Susan Hill novel that is better known as the source for the hugely successful 2012 Hammer film. Interestingly, the...
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The Prey (1980)
The Prey is a 1980 American horror film directed by Edwin Scott Brown from a script he wrote with his spouse Summer Brown (the latter also produced). It was apparently released to cinemas briefly in...
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“Ban the Sadist Videos!”– The Story of Video Nasties (article)
The film world in Britain during the early 80s was grim. Most of the grand cinema palaces of yesteryear were, if not already transformed into Bingo halls, falling apart, offering a less-than-enticing...
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