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Rob Zombie’s 3 From Hell and 3 Of His Best
"Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee." - Rob Zombie Since 2003, Gothic-metal performer Rob Zombie has turned his hand to a different form of creativity - writing and…
It Came, It’s Saw, It Conquered | Saw at 15
Back in the early 2000's, horror was going through a strange period. The success of movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Urban Legend (1998) paved the way for PG-13 horror movies to rule, atop the kingdom of celluloid…
Cartoon Pumpkins | Fear in Animation
To mark this year’s Halloween, Headstuff animation expert Joseph Learoyd has penned a new three-part column titled Cartoon Pumpkins, delving into the spooky side of the form. His final entry talks more broadly on fear in animation. Fear.…
“Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously?” | A Primer on Folk Horror
Since we could walk on two legs we have feared the dark and so we drove it back with fire and with electricity and eventually with screens. We realised our fears on pages and paintings and film. We gave them names and faces and shapes.…
Bohemian Blaxploitation | The Work Of Melvin Van Peebles
The US in the late 60s was a country torn apart by war, both in Vietnam and on the streets. The inevitable failure of the counterculture, along with the voices of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were extinguished through assassination,…
Cartoon Pumpkins | Lily C.A.T. Is The 80s Horror Mash-Up To Watch This Halloween
To mark this year’s Halloween, Headstuff animation expert Joseph Learoyd is starting a new three-part column titled Cartoon Pumpkins, delving into the spooky side of animation. His second entry is on 1987 anime horror Lily C.A.T.. After…
“Dig This Mama” | Black Dynamite at 10
Ten years ago the well of parody films was dry. Meet the Spartans, Vampires Suck and ceaseless Scary Movies had drank it empty leaving nothing but hot air and a barely there puddle. Within that puddle writers Michael Jai White, Byron Minns…
Cartoon Pumpkins | Disney Delved into Danse Macabre with The Skeleton Dance
To mark this year’s Halloween, Headstuff animation expert Joseph Learoyd is starting a new three-part column titled Cartoon Pumpkins, delving into the spooky side of animation. His first entry is on 1929 Disney short The Skeleton Dance.…
Literature on Film | Even Two-Time Oscar Winner L.A. Confidential Can’t Top Its Source
Every generation has a crime writer that supersedes those that have come before. In a post-Raymond Chandler world James Ellroy is that crime writer. Self-styled as the “demon dog” of crime fiction his work shatters taboos and wraps readers…
Soap And Violence | Fight Club At 20
"This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time" - Tyler Durden One of the most misunderstood movies of the last 20 years is undoubtedly David Fincher's modern cult classic Fight Club. Yes, it's easy to linger on the violence, an…