For @starburst.bsky.social #492, I explore why HAUSU (1977) - Nobuhiko Obayashi's kaleidoscopic collision between Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981) and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969-1970) - is more art-house (or art-hausu?) than haunted house horror!

Moviedrome: Welcome to the Cult - a documentary directed by Nic Wassell - is now streaming on #BFIPlayer! 📺 Check out my interview with Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox [director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy] for @starburst.bsky.social ✨️ www.starburstmagazine.com/features/mov...

We need to start a campaign to get the bbc to re-run every series of Moviedrome... Yes, I've been watching the Moviedrome documentary on BFI...😬

Moviedrome returns to BFI Southbank this weekend with screenings of Les Diaboliques [1955] & The Fly [1958] 🪰 Check out my interview with Moviedrome producer Nick Freand Jones for @starburst.bsky.social ✨️ www.starburstmagazine.com/features/mov...

Focusing on the undeniably underappreciated, I'm so fortunate that I get to explore the midnight movie macabre for @starburst.bsky.social! From black vampirism to cyberpunk fetishism! Fade to Black (1980) X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Moviedrome returns to BFI Southbank tonight with a screening of The Wicker Man [1973] 📺 Check out my interview with Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox [director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy] for @starburst.bsky.social ✨️ www.starburstmagazine.com/features/mov...

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From 1988 until 1994, Alex Cox presented Moviedrome every Sunday night on BBC2, curated by Nick Freand Jones. For @starburst.bsky.social, in anticipation of BFI bringing the cult TV series to the big screen this July & August, I've asked Alex & Nick to return to the Moviedrome... 📺

For @starburst.bsky.social #490, I explore Vernon Zimmerman’s blood-splattered love letter to the Golden Age of Hollywood! FADE TO BLACK (1980) is an underseen psychological midnight movie overshadowed by a grotesque yet gorgeous spectrum of slashers! Pick up your copy: starburstmagazine.store

For the first issue of Abhartach Magazine - THE FIRST HARVEST 🌾 - I wax lyrical about Clive Barker's psychosexual folk horror gorefest: RAWHEAD REX!

The Spring edition of #StarburstMagazine is in UK shops from today, and available for delivery from our official store at the link below ⬇️ starburstmagazine.store/products/sta...

For @starburst.bsky.social #489, I explore Roger Corman's most interesting and offbeat horror movie, 1963's X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES. Remember, “if thine eye offends thee… pluck it out!” Pick up your copy: starburstmagazine.store

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For @starburst.bsky.social #488, I explore Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 monochromatic ode to cyberpunk fetishism, TETSUO: THE IRON MAN. Complimented by a relentless industrial score, Tetsuo led to an increasingly horrific new wave of 90's J-Horror. Pick up your copy: starburstmagazine.store

🚨 Announcement! 🚨 Available to pre-order from today, STARBURST: THE ALBUM by The British Stereo Collective is a unique concept album inspired by your favourite magazine and the fantastical worlds we've documented since 1977! Visit our store for all the deets: starburstmagazine.store/products/sta...

⚔️ STARBURST #488 is out today with a fantastic cover from Graham Humphreys! For Starburst's Top 50 Fantasy Films of All-Time, I wax lyrical about Jason and the Argonauts, The Sword and the Sorcerer, The Beastmaster, Conan the Barbarian, and The Black Cauldron! ⚔️

Shout out to all the people in the horror community who are good folks that actually support others, hold the door open for newcomers, who put the actual work in and genuinely want to make the space (whether it’s IRL or online) a great place for everyone. Y’all are the best. 🖤

Everyone at Fango is heartbroken to learn of the passing of the great Tony Todd. Gone too soon. Rest well, sir. 🖤

“Darkness falls across the land / The midnight hour is close at hand / Creatures crawl in search of blood / To terrorise y’all’s neighbourhood…” I've written a few words for @attackplanetb.bsky.social confirming why #VincentPrice is widely regarded as a cinematic icon of the horror genre!

From Halloween, The Thing, and Escape from New York, to Lost Themes I-IV, I explore why John Carpenter is considered an auteur of the macabre in THE TRICK WAS TO STAY ALIVE: A JOHN CARPENTER RETROSPECTIVE! 🔪🎃 Pick up your copy: starburstmagazine.store