Twisted Tales

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.

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.

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
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