Featherston Vinyl Club is taking you back to the 80s. The decade of big sounds, big hair, big shoulders, and big dreams. Dig out your...

In the name of Beelzebub, Cthulhu & Paimon, I summon the armies of the night AKA horror book lovers / reviewers! Red Ruin is out next...

Umberto Lenzi sends supremely angry cop Maurizio Merli flying around Rome beating and shooting the shit out of every criminal in the city...

The Regulators by Richard Bachman • I have owned various copies of this book since it came out 26 years ago. I started reading a...

I’ve been reading some short novelettes / novellas / stories recently & these are three that I really enjoyed: White Ibis by Wendy...

Holy Shitting Giants! Mere words are not sufficient to describe this film. Mad God is one of those transcendent experiences that are hard...

There have been many books (and films) released that loudly proclaim to be a “modern slasher” which then go on to be a regular old...

I first caught Alligator on the Sunday Horrors, a late night TV horror slot in the late ‘80s. I’d been meaning to rewatch it, but I never...

I am thrilled to share the cover for my next book, Red Ruin, co-written with my friend Ian J Middleton. The fantastic cover art is by...

Everything is not going to be ok… • Richard Linklater at his best. Keanu at his best. Winona, Robert Downey & Woody at their kookiest....

I was back on RNZ Nights with Bryan Crump tonight, talking campfire tales in horror cinema. We looked at The Fog, The Burning, Madman,...

I had the distinct pleasure of talking all things horror with the gents from Another Goddamned Horror Podcast last week. It was such a...

No one films insanity like Tobe Hooper. From the original Chainsaw through Eaten Alive and The Funhouse to this Cannon funded sequel, he...

Here are some of my reviews of the Friday the 13th films from the last couple of years. I will keep adding new reviews as and when I...

Originally released in 2003, Florian Habicht’s debut feature film Woodenhead is a hypnotic and idiosyncratic adult fairytale, a surreal...

Ti West’s fourth film came after his notoriously shitty Hollywood experience on Cabin Fever 2, where the film got re-edited and re-shot...

I'm pleased to announce the event I am producing with Ricky Dey for this years Featherston Booktown: Campfire Tales (R13) Friday 10th &...

Cult genre director Richard Stanley hasn't had a film unspool on cinema screens since 1992’s horror film Dust Devil. After being fired...

I first caught Drew Goddard’s sophomore film on a long haul flight. I am not really a fan of movies on the plane - the screens are...

True crime poetry is not a sub genre I was aware even existed, let alone one that could be so emotionally affecting, but Cynthia Pelayo...