Edgar Allan Poe notwithstanding, Howard Phillips Lovecraft is perhaps the most revered writer of fantasy and horror and a key influence on contemporary horror fiction writers like Stephen King, Clive Barker and Ramsey Campbell. Simultaneously epic in scale and claustrophobic in nature, Lovecraft’s tales are absolute classics of the genre, proving highly inspirational for later […]
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25 Weird Horror Movies That Are Totally Worth Watching
Ever since its earliest incarnations in the form of myths and legends, the horror story has always leaned towards the bizarre and fantastical. Strangeness is in its blood. In fact, aside from the obvious penchant for terror, death and the macabre, an obsession with all things weird is the genre’s most recognisable quality. Tales of […]
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10 Great Found Footage Horror Movies for Beginners
Found footage is one of the most controversial, widely reviled forms of horror cinema; not because it is particularly confrontational like torture porn, but because the format itself is so different to the conventional cinematic approach of fictional narrative films. Found footage films attempt to imitate real footage by utilising shaky handheld camerawork in order […]