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Stripes Publishing produce a consistently reliable stream of excellent spooky young adult novels and Alex Bell is always a good read. We really liked her tale of the witchbottle possessed pub in The Haunting and the malevolent china dolls of Frozen Charlotte and its Gothic Horror prequel Charlotte Says really creeped us out. Alex's latest... Continue Reading →
The Hothouse book on the go right now is A People's History of the Vampire Uprising by US author Raymond A Villareal, which is published in the UK by our good friends at Titan Books. Making a welcome change from the zombie plagues that have swept through films and books over the past few years... Continue Reading →
Around this time last year we got our first look at Iain Ross-McNamee's Indy Brit horror Crucible of the Vampire. On Saturday (2 February) we finally got to see the finished movie on the big screen at the movie's London premiere at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square. The rough cut we originally saw... Continue Reading →
So what's in the Bargain basement pile this week Horrid Simon? Well first off we have the Friday Morning Creature Feature Dead Sea (2014), that hardly has a creature in it. Dead Sea does not feature the actual Dead Sea, but a salt water lake in California where all the fish have died. It just... Continue Reading →
A ferry sets sail from Stockholm bound for Abo in Finland. Most of the 1,200 booze cruise passengers won't even get off, they just want to have a good time, stocking up on cheap liquor and fags, getting as pissed as can while they whoop it up in the bars and maybe have a bit... Continue Reading →
January has been a busy month down in the Hothouse dungeon so we only got to view five movies from our bumper bargain pile. First up and the pick of the bunch was Anders Bank's Frostbite (2006 AKA Frostbitten - £1.23 Amazon). Frostbite opens on the Eastern Front during World War II where, Scandinavian Nazi... Continue Reading →
It's all happening in Scandinavia, hot on the heels of Escaping the Dead comes Norwegian horror comedy Vampyr Vidar (or Vidar the Vampire for English speakers) Vidar Haarr is a 33-year-old, single and sexually frustrated farmer. Vidar leads a Christian, monotonous and strenuous working life on his mother's farmstead in the Western outskirts of Norway.... Continue Reading →
The second brilliant part of Kim Newman and Paul McCaffrey's alternative London comic Anno Dracula 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem is out today (19 April) from our good friends at Titan Comics. Following last issue's dramatic raid by Scotland Yard's Special Branch on the Council of Seven Days find out what happens to Kate Reid... Continue Reading →
'What are we going to do with him? I mean it's not like the old days when we could chuck them in the Thames alongside all the other tubercular floaters' such are the problems faced by the modern vampire couple. Only Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) are not exactly modern themselves, they are... Continue Reading →
Back in May we talked to New York based filmmaker Almada B Goodman about her vampire short You Only Die Once. The film's been called 'A bloody good time' and 'A sassy knockout comedy' (Now who said that?) and won the 2016 Silver Award from The Spotlight Independent Horror Film Awards. We liked the female... Continue Reading →
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