An Amicus speciality, the ‘Omnibus’ horror movie harks back to the silent days and continues to appeal to genre film producers even now. Denis Meikle takes us through the history of these celluloid tales of terror.
Some people are one in a million, but Rick Melton was won in a raffle. This time round our resident artistic genius ties himself up with piano wire and watches Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS.
Welcome to the very first digital issue of Dark Side, our monthly online supplement to the full magazine.
Kevin Connor crafted some of the most fondly remembered Amicus romps, including The Land That Time Forgot and At The Earth’s Core. Calum Waddell talks to him about his days directing Edgar Rice Burroughs on a budget!
The prodigious pen of Robert Bloch was responsible for many horror movie favourites, from Psycho to William Castle’s Strait-Jacket... to Amicus movies like The Skull and The House That Dripped Blood. Denis Meikle investigates Bloch’s lengthy writing career
A Look at what's inside this issue
Some film makers vehemently dislike film critics, often regarding them as little more than failed and consequently frustrated film makers themselves. So it’s rare that the critic gets to put his head above the parapet and make the film they…
Zombies are having a bad time of late. In movie mash up terms they been pitted against both Abraham Lincoln and strippers. Rumour has it that Clive Barker is also working on a project where he intends to pit them…
With the studios putting out their scary movies in time for Hallowe’en it’s only fair that they terrify the kids too, and Sony and Disney ( who would think they’d get on this site?) wheel out their monster romps. Hotel…
As someone who remembers the furore surrounding the so-called ‘video nasties’ of the mid-‘80s, I was pleased to discover that Peter Normanton’s Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies goes into forensic detail on the subject. In an exhaustive introduction to the genre, Normanton…