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Northern Minnesota, mid December. Two kids are messing about in the snow, when one of them discovers the top of a skull poking out of a frozen lake. It’s not just a skull either. When the local police turn up they discover it’s the whole deal; a complete partially de-fleshed skeleton and its mounted on... Continue Reading →
A hospital patient with no vital signs but full of life, a job offer for a Death Row prisoner and a mob enforcer who finds religion goes and knocks on the wrong old lady’s door wanting to talk about God. These are just a few of the stories to be found inside Michael Bray’s Dark... Continue Reading →
This short from American director, writer and cinematographer Jarad Skolnick opens with some absolutely stunning imagery of the countryside. So beautifully atmospheric that it put me in mind of the photography of the Provencal countryside from Claude Berri’s Manon des Sources. Of course this rural idyll is soon spoilt when young Ray comes off his... Continue Reading →
Kim Newman talks with The Horror Hothouse's Simon Ball about his latest book Johnny Alucard Kim Newman is the go-to guy for anything related to horror and sci-fi movies. A well-known face on our TV screens, Kim is also an award-winning writer and an all-round good bloke. In 1992 his novel Anno Dracula was published, in... Continue Reading →
In the suburban Los Angeles is the church of Vietnam vet the Reverend Cecil Omar Biggs. It’s not a normal church by any means, locked up in the basement are the board of governors and you really don’t want to know what’s kept in the freezer. When the Reverend and his Deacon Marvin ‘Freebase’ Muck... Continue Reading →
Blu de Golyer, the writer and producer behind House of Good and Evil catches up with The Horror Hothouse's Emma Knock. Hi Blu, thanks for catching up with us, firstly can you give us a little background on your career and how you got into writing and filmmaking? Funny story, I left the states when... Continue Reading →
From the producer of American Psycho comes an intense new movie that focuses on bullying in the US school system. Based on an award-winning Italian short film, Ice Scream promises to be a graphic thriller that gives an ‘in your face’ look at what happens when bullying goes far beyond the usual playground folly. Starring... Continue Reading →
Flagged as a ‘Southern Gothic Plantation Horror’, H Cubed Films presents Graveyard Dogs, an independent film set in the depths of pre-Civil War South. The plot focuses on the relationship between a slave and the son of her owner. Their blossoming romance is threatened as mangled corpses of runaway slaves start appearing in the woods. Produced... Continue Reading →
Friday The 13th. We’d already been nigh on stranded in Stratford after the Overground broke down, we got on the wrong bus, we got back on the bus, then came the traffic. Finally arriving in Hackney Wick with minutes to spare, we searched just about everywhere for the enigmatic Queen’s Yard. That ghastly tense feeling... Continue Reading →
For me, Poltergeist was one of those movies that used to compel me to sneak into my parent’s bedroom to the ‘forbidden’ VHS cupboard just so that I could get a glimpse of that terrifying video cover – you know, that one with the shadows? I was a good girl, so it wasn’t until I... Continue Reading →
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