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I love a good animated kid’s film, so when I saw the trailer for ParaNorman I immediately added it to my long list of films to see. Coming from animation company LAIKA who teamed up with Focus Features, the company behind the Academy Award-nominated Coraline, I was expecting good things.
ParaNorman is a stop-motion animation, directed [...]
Having been a keen fan of horror films, and friend of Andy himself, for many years (not to mention being the long-suffering partner of The Harleyquin) it was a pleasure to be given the opportunity to review a film for AndyErupts.
I love films that deal with the subject of demonic possession, exorcism films and anything that gives [...]
Neil Jordan’s treatment of Anne Rice’s novel of Interview with the Vampire starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst was well-received; 2002′s adaptation of Queen of the Damned with Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend, not so much.
News has broken that the fourth book in Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, The Tale of the Body Thief, has been [...]
Ooooft! How about this for a bit of Scottish horror news just before the weekend…
Glasgow publisher BlackHearted Press’s Scottish island vampire comic book School of the Damned has been optioned by similarly Glasgow-based film companies Mandragora Productions/Invictus Films.
For those of you not in the know, School of the Damned works something like this:
“It is 1936 [...]
Really great werewolf films are few and far between nowadays. The 80′s saw such greats as An American Werewolf In London, The Howling and The Company of Wolves. It all started going downhill in the nineties with Wolf and Wilderness while the noughties delivered titles such as Ginger Snaps and Dog Soldiers.
Now? What do we have? [...]
Outcast is another movie that flew under the radar for me but resurfaced when my attention had been drawn to low-budget Scottish horror flick The Dead Outside.
The back cover of the DVD sets the scene with this synopsis:
“When Mary and her teenage son, Fergal, move to yet another new home, it soon becomes clear they [...]
