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In this archive interview, Julian Butler talks about the pitfalls of leaping from no-budget filmmaking to a national television series. Smile Orange’s Focus North.
A recent addition to the stable of Netflix docuseries, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is not the crime the makers had hoped it to be. David Kerekes and Jennifer Wallis look for the abyss.
The Dæmons is a Doctor Who adventure in which devils come to life. Discussing the Nigel Kneale influence and its place in weird children’s TV of the 1970s.
Speaking from his New Delhi apartment, author Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee chats about his new book The Town Slowly Empties, and of life and art and the problem of getting a haircut during a pandemic. David Kerekes chats back.
Showroom dummies are taking over the world! Once described as ‘highly coloured science fiction for older children’, David Kerekes takes a look at the nightmare that is Doctor Who, beginning with one of the most memorable shows.
A horror comic leads David Kerekes to reflect on the ‘snuff’ film rumour mill of the 1970s, while at the same time facing a virus alert on his computer.
Trading cards are something of a US institution. Many feature sports personalities. Some don’t, such as the Terrorist Attack Educational Cards of the 1980s.
Stuck indoors, David Kerekes finds the time to do the little things, like revisit Joe Lansdale’s The Drive-In and consider ‘video nasties’ as an art form.
Is there such a thing as Sundayploitation? Where is the sound of horror? David Kerekes thinks he knows the answers in the first of his movie dumps.
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the death of Ian Curtis, Joy Division frontman. We consider his iconic status and what, besides the music, helped shape it.
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
