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NZ Horror Books: Author interviews with Lee Murray & William Cook
Next up in the October series of NZ Horror Books Author interviews are Lee Murray and William Cook: Lee Murray Who are you? Lee Murray ONZM is a writer, editor, poet and screenwriter from Aotearoa New Zealand, a Shirley Jackson Award and five-time Bram Stoker Award® winner. A USA Today bestselling author with more than forty titles to her credit, including novels, collections, anthologies, nonfiction, poetry, and several books for children, Lee holds a New Zealand Prime Min


NZ Horror Books - Author Interviews: Nikky Lee & Daniel Eady
Next up in the October series of NZ Horror Books Author interviews are Nikky Lee & Daniel Eady. Read on! Nikky Lee Who are you? Hi, I’m...


NZ Horror Books - Author Interviews: E.L Julian & Ian J. Middleton
Time to meet some more New Zealand horror authors for #nzhorrorbooks month! Today, we are speaking with two authors from my old stomping...


NZ Horror Books - Author Interviews: Jacqui Greaves & S.M. Drought
We are kicking off NZ Horror Books Month with profiles of two Kiwi horror authors, with more to follow throughout October. Read on......


Tear into some New Zealand Horror Books this October
Art by T.L. Wood This October, we will be showcasing New Zealand horror writers and cover artists on social media and beyond. We invite...


A Nightmare on My Street - growing up with Freddy Krueger
I was always a Freddy Krueger kid. He was my guy, more so than that dude in the hockey mask, who I liked just fine. In 1988, AKA the year...


Review: The Toxic Avenger - Toxie 2025 does Troma proud
Luisa Guerreiro as The Toxic Avenger Two years ago, glowing reviews for this new update of Troma’s superhero The Toxic Avenger came...


Weapons (2025) - a fun, funny, creepy blast of horror
Weapons , from former Whitest Kids You Know comedian and sophomore horror director Zach Cregger, is the latest much-hyped horror movie to...


Jaws the Revenge - but good!
Bruce Willis famously said onscreen what everyone was thinking when he returned as Detective John McClane for the highly implausible (but...


The Sleeper Must Awaken: All Things Dune
Note: this piece was written back in February 2024 & has been rejigged slightly. Back at the start of 2024, and with the impending...


Celebrating Lucio Fulci with Fulci Lives Film Week
I love a good themed film week, and on June 15th 2025, one of the best returned for its 5th year. Every year Fulci Lives Film Week ...


Short story: Chops
Artwork by Tee Wood Back in 2022, I co-produced an event called Campfire Tales for the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival....


Film Review - Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
It hasn’t always been easy being a lifelong Predator fan. John McTiernan’s Arnie-starring classic came out in 1987, when I was ten, but...


Film review: Bring Her Back (2025)
Sally Hawkins in Bring Her Back *Minor spoilers below. Just the other week, I bemoaned the utter lack of feeling and originality in the...


Film review: Fear Street - Prom Queen (2025)
Back in 2021, Netflix released a trilogy of films based on RL Stine's Fear Street books. As someone already reading Stephen King and...


Book Review: Black Pills by Garth Jones
When Aussie (transplanted to Aotearoa) author Garth Jones offered me an early look at his latest short story collection Black Pills , I...


31 Days of Horror - Days 1 - 4
Day 1: Oddity (2024) Kicking off 31 days of horror with this new Shudder release. Irish filmmaker Damien McCarthy is 2 for 2 in my...


Starship Troopers (1997): Paul Verhoeven's brilliant blend of sci-fi, horror, and satire.
The only good bug is a dead bug. Paul Verhoeven is a straight-up mad genius, the kind we don’t get enough of anymore. Verhoeven was...


Maximum Overdrive (1986): maximum Stephen King
This wild dose of Maximum King is a coked out whirlwind of sentient machines gore and pure unadulterated fun. Maximum Overdrive is often...


Concert review: Queens Of The Stone Age at TSB Arena, Wellington 1/3/24
On 1st March this year, I got to see Queens of the Stone Age again for the second time after first seeing them in Melbourne on the Era...
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