The BFI today announce STEPHEN KING ON SCREEN, a season of film and television dedicated to living legend STEPHEN KING, one of the most frequently adapted and versatile writers in history, and as formidable a cinematic force as a literary…
This just in from reader Daniel Thackeray, and well worth sharing. I’m a recent discoverer of your wonderful magazine The Dark Side. As a longtime horror fan (enough to have my own podcast about the films of Cushing and…
This just in from my old Redemption/Salvation buddy Nigel Wingrove. Great to hear that the BFI are releasing Salvations’s Orchard End Murder in a stunning new print with loads of extras. I watched it last night and will be reviewing…
At 73, outspoken genre legend, Michael Armstrong is creating history by being the first film-maker to publish his entire screenwriting output. With the original uncut screen plays published in paperback for the first time and peppered with a mixture of wildly entertaining…
This just in from long-time reader Mark Burns: I am a huge fan of the horror genre and am involved behind the scenes of a UK event called ‘Weekend Of The Dead’. We are bringing over to the UK some…
This just in from Dark Side reader James Close: I thought you might enjoy covering my recent TEDx talk about the undead. From a scientific perspective, it has it all: archaeology of zombies, anthropology of the undead, and the genetic…
Scotland’s international horror film festival returns from April 20 – 23, 2017, Dead by Dawn is at Filmhouse for its 24th edition with a tempting line-up of dark delights guaranteed to give you goose-bumps on your goose-bumps. All we need say…
Our cover for Dark Side 182 features the original Pet Shop Boy, and fans of the Hammer House of Horror TV show will know exactly what I am talking about. The main picture, one of Rick Melton’s finest, is also…
Nipped down to Shepperton yesterday to interview Vera Day. Do you remember her? She was strangled by Boris Karloff in Grip of the Strangler, got an alien parasite on her face in Quatermass 2 and was menaced by a monster…
“Monsters? We’re British!” Just got our super new Horror Express Tee Shirts in, available in all sizes, and boy do they look great. We have just booked a table at the Camden Film Fair for Saturday week and we will…
This Saturday Yannie, Kev and I will be flogging our wares at the London Film Convention in Westminster which promises to be a fun day. We will be bringing along our T-shirts, binders and books and of course plenty of…
NEW WAVE MEXICAN HORROR CINEMA Things are getting bloody strange south of the border The turning point for the modern Mexican horror genre occurred in 1993, when a certain Guillermo Del Toro burst onto the scene with his inventive and…