horror cinema
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I can officially tell people, and boy has this been an exciting secret! Hammer is releasing a Limited Collector’s Edition of their 1958 classic Dracula in 4K with tons of special features, including a new commentary by myself and historian John Hamilton. This lavish Limited Collector’s Edition features seven discs containing five versions of the…
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The latest in my commentaries for Hammer is the genuinely original vampire horror Incense for the Damned. You haven’t heard of it? Probably because it didn’t have the best release, heading out years late on the bottom of a double bill, but the actual film and the idea behind it are fascinating. Imagine that ancient…
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Hammer Film’s latest release is the Special Edition box set of X The Unknown, and among the heafty special features is a documentary “Displaced and Damned” about director Joseph Losey, who was breifly attached to direct X The Unkown and went on to directg Hammer’s The Damned. In the documentary a handful of very clever historians, including…
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Last weekend we were down in Canterbury filming the wrap-around for our next horror anthology: COSIS. If you’ve seen Darner, that short will ultimately end up in the anthology along with six other segments; all surreal experiences of psychoses taken to their horrific extreme. A picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ll leave you with some…
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It’s always exciting to meet another horror-loving Lauren, and Lauren Spear, who runs the Horror Fam is a serious horror fan, and a huge supporter of indie horror. So we were thrilled to see that Natural Thorn Killers made it into this month’s horror roundup, right at the top of the “Indie Horror Books” list. If…