YOU’VE GOT RED ON YOU: HOW SHAUN OF THE DEAD WAS BROUGHT TO LIFE
The making of SHAUN OF THE DEAD is covered with admirable thoroughness in this beautifully designed book
THE SHADOW
A veritable master class in psycho-horror that holds up beautifully
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
Sometimes accidental brilliance is the most irresistible sort.
THE FOG
Impossible though it might seem to believe nowadays, this British horror fest was once considered the height of shock
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR
An exhaustive documentary that purports to explore the roots and manifestations of “Folk Horror” in film
THE COMPANY OF WOLVES
A highly elliptical affair that mixes outright surrealism with traditional horror movie trappings
GIRLY
This British oddity represents yet another case of promising material given indifferent treatment
THE INFLUENCE
A novel that often reads like a Ramsey Campbell Greatest Hits package
RED HEDZ, SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
It’s been said of TOMIE that there is “nothing in Western horror literature, cinema and comics quite like it.” Not unless you take into account the 1989 novella RED HEDZ, revised as SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
1988: The Year in Bedlam
I really hate to keep repeating myself in my year-end summations, but I just have to say it: 1988 was an abysmal year for movies