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WOHI BHAYANAK RAAT

This film differs from other bad horror movies in that it’s a Bollywood horror movie. This means many large-scale musical numbers, much over the top melodrama, a two-and-a-half hour running time and a painfully low budget

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THE WIZARD OF GORE (1970)

THE WIZARD OF GORE is a fairly typical H.G. Lewis production, meaning it probably won’t ever win any awards but is great fun for vintage gore fans

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WITCHFINDER GENERAL

This 1968 gut-wrencher was the final film of Britain’s late Michael Reeves, and one of the highlights of 1960s British horror cinema

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WITCH WITH FLYING HEAD

A witch with a detachable head that flies around, complete with a spine and pulsating internal organs hanging from it? An evil wizard who secretes magic snakes from his eyes? If you’re laboring under the delusion that you’ve seen it all, this film is for you!

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WIND CHILL

A solid exercise in minimalism with fine location work, some decent scares, and extremely good performances by its lead actors

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THE CITY

A rare foray into graphic novel scripting by novelist James Herbert, and the fourth part of Herbert’s Rats saga (which commenced with the novels THE RATS, LAIR and DOMAIN). In truth this book is pretty slight, coming off as a so-so short story presented as a 64-page comic. Yet I do recommend it. Why? Because the illustrator is the immensely talented Ian Miller, who was quite inspired here.

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THE CHILDKEEPER

A 1970s page turner about wayward kids that at times recalls the queasy air of similarly themed anti-classics like LET’S GO PLAY AT THE ADAMS’ and THE GIRL NEXT DOOR

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CHILDGRAVE

The third novel by the woefully underrated Ken Greenhall, who as usual delivered a strikingly unique and intelligent tale. The subject is one that preoccupied Greenhall’s fiction: love, which is viewed not as a pleasant diversion nor an all-conquering panacea, but as a complex and oft-destructive entity whose effects are far-reaching.

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CHILD OF GOD

No other Cormac McCarthy novel better exemplifies his more anti-social tendencies than CHILD OF GOD.

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