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In our opinion Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser's chattering cenobite) is one of the nicest men in horror so we just had to go and see his one man show I Am Monsters as it opened 2019's London Horror Festival at Islington's Pleasance Theatre. With a run time of around an hour we had just about enough... Continue Reading →
The London Horror Festival kicks off tomorrow with three shows. At the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington Knock Knock Club's docu drama Last Orders - the Haunting of the Old Red Lion will run from 8 October up until 28October. The new show reunites the historic pub theatre with some of the long dead... Continue Reading →
Yes our favourite time of the year is creeping up again as the capital gears up for a month of gory mayhem with The London Horror Festival 2019. The UK’s largest festival of live horror performance returns for its ninth year, expanding over two venues and three theatre spaces, with help from their sponsors Horror... Continue Reading →
We really loved Hex Studio's first two features Lord of Tears (2013) and The Unkindness of Ravens (2017) with their shared mythology of avian monsters and old school British horror atmospherics, so we have been keenly following the development of their latest manifestation in the magnificent The Black Gloves. A prequel in effect to Lord... Continue Reading →
Blimey there's so much great stuff happening this Halloween, not only is there brilliant live theatre at both the London and Edinburgh Horror Festivals and some of the best of this year's shorts at the Misty Moon International Film Festival, but the premiere of Lawrie Brewster and Sarah Daly's new Gothic Noir The Black Gloves... Continue Reading →
Here at Hothouse dungeons we have been looking forward to seeing Ashley Thorpe's Borley Rectory for some time now (see interview with Ashley here), so we were delighted when those nice folks at Manchester's premier horror movie spooktacular Grimmfest invited us along to see it. Ashley's part live action, part animated documentary take on the... Continue Reading →
The Owlman is back! Yes the star of Lawrie Brewster and Sara Daly's Lord of Tears is not only coming back to haunt the silver screen, but he's going back in time to scare the blue lights out of the 1940s, but in glorious Film Noir monochrome of course. Now the folks at Hex Media... Continue Reading →
It's back, it's bigger and it's got a new home, The London Horror Festival will be tingling spines and on occasion tickling the capital's funny bone from October 10 to 30 at a new venue The Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington. There are more than twenty shows to choose from; including horror theatre, LGBTQ... Continue Reading →
With the rain pouring and the sky growing ever darker, we made our way through Vauxhall’s dimly lit streets toward the Lost Theatre for the launch night of the London Horror Festival. On arrival, we weaved through the crowded bar, catching sight of horror legends such as Nicholas Vince and Barbie Wilde. When the clock struck... Continue Reading →
Shortly after seeing his chilling new double bill at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden, we had the pleasure of catching up with the man who has the most famous smile (and potentially forehead too) in horror. Nicholas Vince talks with The Horror Hothouse's Emma Knock about What Monsters Do, working with Clive Barker and what's coming up... Continue Reading →
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