Tag: horror
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Acid Witch / Vanik @ Hard Luck Bar, Toronto, 14 October 2017
When October comes around, horror aficionados salivate at the thought of Halloween – the creepy highlight of the month. And what better way would there be to honour this ghoulish time of year than to see the purveyors of hallucinogenic Halloween death metal, namely Acid Witch? Speed metal outlaws Vanik are notable for frontman Vanik’s…
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The Limehouse Golem
The Limehouse Golem is the best new film I’ve seen thus far this year. I will give no spoilers, save to say that this is a superb horror-thriller set in Victorian London, with Police Inspector John Kildare (Bill Nighy) trying to catch the titular Limehouse Golem (a Ripper-esque killer… or is it?). No, rather than revealing…
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Book reviews: film & TV
Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on Screen by Brain Taves (Published by University Press of Kentucky) It is fair to say that Jules Verne’s work is very cinematic and this finely written book certainly proves it. Verne’s work is full of adventure and in these dark times we need that more…
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The Girl With All The Gifts – film review
A few years ago, when Andy Black and I wrote The Dead Walk (www.noirpublishing.co.uk), we focussed on the quality zombie films because there are so many bad films that add nothing whatsoever to the genre, and indeed by their sheer generic quality serve only to harm the genre. Time has proved our approach the correct…
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Dark Carnival Expo – Hamilton ON, July 9-10, 2016
A horror convention in Hamilton? Sign us up! Thanks to Rue Morgue magazine, Hamilton ON played host to two days of horror madness and mayhem this summer in the form of the Dark Carnival Expo. Actually, things were more in the line of horrific delights than madness and mayhem, but these could be easily imagined. A Friday…
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Horror movie review: The Conjuring 2
The Conjuring was a pleasant surprise when it was released, shining like a diamond amongst endless remakes and found-footage films (how long before someone remakes The Blair Witch Project? No, please don’t, that would be truly horrible in all the worse ways!). For The Conjuring was a well-written, well-directed, well-acted film, with good production values,…
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Tribulation – Children of the Night
On Tribulation’s third album, The Children of the Night, the Swedish quartet follows metal’s obsession with horror much further than their peers. On their past albums, 2009’s Swedish death explosion The Horror, followed by horse-sized hallucinogen The Formulas of Death in 2013, Tribulation showed they were onto a form of death metal as exciting as…
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Housecore Horror Film Festival in Austin TX, October 2014
Housecore Horror Film Festival Austin, Texas Review by Jay Gorania Photos Alyssa Herrman The second annual Housecore Horror Film Festival, spearheaded by Phil Anselmo and true crime author/heavy metal journalist Corey Mitchell, showcased an impressive line-up of heavy bands, horror movies and documentaries. The 40th Anniversary reunion of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s surviving cast members…
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Electric Wizard – Time to Die
I’ve heard all sorts of mixed reviews of this new Electric Wizard record, though most tend to be favourable (perhaps none more so than this liquidized-teeth kid). But for me, even before I lay wax to the turntable, my opinion is coloured by the whole Greening vs. Wizard feud, which is readily apparent just by looking…
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Hellbound vs Professor Pizza – The Axeslasher Interview
Recently Hellbound photographer and web wizard Adam Wills had the chance to chat with underground metal phenomenon, Axeslasher. The man behind the band, Professor Pizza, reflects on self promotion, the Denver Black Sky Festival and recording in the Converse studio… Going back to when I originally heard about the band through social media and pushing…