Like a good genre flick, Kim Newman’s Video Dungeon – The Collected Reviews plunges the reader in medias res. Its very size and heft tell us that it means business, and it gets down to that without self-justifying foreword or indeed fuss. Of course the Newman name comes as its own prologue – for as…
First published by TheHorrorShow As a train careers through the dark, Jeremy (Jonathan Rigby), Laura (Claire Louise Amias), Miranda (Jamie Birkett) and Freddie (James Swanton) all find themselves guests at a mysterious costume party on board. While their chosen callings (respectively a financier, a politician, a gossip journalist and a paedophile rocker) mark them as…
Final girls revisited, maternity messed up, madness mediated, misogynies exploded, confinement framed and social realism genre-fied: Virginie Sélavy, Kim Newman and I face the horror and cast pod on FrightFest 2015 here for Sight & Sound.