What are your favourite horror movies for Halloween?
What are your favourite horror movies for Halloween (or indeed any other time)? Here’s my very idiosyncratic list of those you may have fond (or less fond) memories of – or maybe not yet met.…
5 more things I learned from TV (and the movies)
Last week’s blog sparked some interesting responses. So many of you got back to me with what you yourselves had learned from TV and the movies, that this week I’m adding five more. Obviously, I’m…
The one sentence at the heart of all horror stories
I’d hoped to avoid Halloween and horror stories… But I just got sucked in. It must be all the skeletons, zombies and pumpkin lanterns around here. I started thinking about what horrifies people and how…
The Horrific Sentence
You know, I firmly believe that at the heart of many – possibly all – genres there is a single sentence. There is certainly one at the heart of all Horror movies, and I’ll tell you what it is in a moment, but first I have to go into a few things to make it clear.