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Horror Channel UK prems two FrightFest discoveries

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Horror Channel’s UK TV premieres for September are two films that scored high on the terror-scale when they screened at FrightFest 2012. Dubbed ‘the Wicker Man for the Harry Brown generation’, COMMUNITY is a fine example of the growing trend in home-grown urban horror and THE INSIDE marks the impressive directorial debut of Irish actor Eoin Macken, who played Sir Gawaine in the hit BBC TV series ‘Merlin’. Plus…Cabin Fever hits Horror Channel with the Network premieres of Eli Roth’s directorial debut CABIN FEVER and Ti West’s follow-up CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER... Also, there is a double slice of Retro horror, courtesy of Hammer Horror: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL, starring Peter Cushing, and cult classic CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER 22:50 Sat Sept 7 – COMMUNITY (2012) * UK TV PREMIERE Two student filmmakers visit the notorious Draymen estate in the hope their proposed documentary will land them a lucrative career. But they quickly discover that the estate is a b...

Horror Channel UK prems two FrightFest discoveries

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Horror Channel’s UK TV premieres for September are two films that scored high on the terror-scale when they screened at FrightFest 2012. Dubbed ‘the Wicker Man for the Harry Brown generation’, COMMUNITY is a fine example of the growing trend in home-grown urban horror and THE INSIDE marks the impressive directorial debut of Irish actor Eoin Macken, who played Sir Gawaine in the hit BBC TV series ‘Merlin’. Plus…Cabin Fever hits Horror Channel with the Network premieres of Eli Roth’s directorial debut CABIN FEVER and Ti West’s follow-up CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER... Also, there is a double slice of Retro horror, courtesy of Hammer Horror: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL, starring Peter Cushing, and cult classic CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER 22:50 Sat Sept 7 – COMMUNITY (2012) * UK TV PREMIERE Two student filmmakers visit the notorious Draymen estate in the hope their proposed documentary will land them a lucrative career. But they quickly discover that the estate is a b...

Horror Channel UK prems two FrightFest discoveries

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Horror Channel’s UK TV premieres for September are two films that scored high on the terror-scale when they screened at FrightFest 2012. Dubbed ‘the Wicker Man for the Harry Brown generation’, COMMUNITY is a fine example of the growing trend in home-grown urban horror and THE INSIDE marks the impressive directorial debut of Irish actor Eoin Macken, who played Sir Gawaine in the hit BBC TV series ‘Merlin’. Plus…Cabin Fever hits Horror Channel with the Network premieres of Eli Roth’s directorial debut CABIN FEVER and Ti West’s follow-up CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER... Also, there is a double slice of Retro horror, courtesy of Hammer Horror: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL, starring Peter Cushing, and cult classic CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER 22:50 Sat Sept 7 – COMMUNITY (2012) * UK TV PREMIERE Two student filmmakers visit the notorious Draymen estate in the hope their proposed documentary will land them a lucrative career. But they quickly discover that the estate is a breeding g...

Horror Channel UK prems two FrightFest discoveries

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Horror Channel’s UK TV premieres for September are two films that scored high on the terror-scale when they screened at FrightFest 2012. Dubbed ‘the Wicker Man for the Harry Brown generation’, COMMUNITY is a fine example of the growing trend in home-grown urban horror and THE INSIDE marks the impressive directorial debut of Irish actor Eoin Macken, who played Sir Gawaine in the hit BBC TV series ‘Merlin’. Plus…Cabin Fever hits Horror Channel with the Network premieres of Eli Roth’s directorial debut CABIN FEVER and Ti West’s follow-up CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER... Also, there is a double slice of Retro horror, courtesy of Hammer Horror: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL, starring Peter Cushing, and cult classic CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER 22:50 Sat Sept 7 – COMMUNITY (2012) * UK TV PREMIERE Two student filmmakers visit the notorious Draymen estate in the hope their proposed documentary will land them a lucrative career. But they quickly discover that the estate is a breeding g...

Interview with Darren R. Scothern

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INTERVIEW WITH DARREN SCOTHERN By David Kempf Darren R. Scothern is an English author and poet. He was born in Sheffield in 1965, and had an average working class education before graduating from The Open University with a first-class honours degree in literature. He describes himself variously as an author, poet, atheist, rationalist, sceptic and armchair revolutionary. After finding some success in the small presses, Darren made a breakthrough into the American paperback market, when his award-winning science fiction story 'The Key to Heaven's Gate' was included in The Best Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction of 2009, published by the Absent Willow Review. --- Tell us how you became interested in writing Oh, this is a sad story of regret and wasted opportunities! As a child, I was very 'forward' with reading and writing.  I was doing both fluently long before starting school, long before other kids my age.  The first story I ever wrote, I was probably...

Interview with Darren R. Scothern

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INTERVIEW WITH DARREN SCOTHERN By David Kempf Darren R. Scothern is an English author and poet. He was born in Sheffield in 1965, and had an average working class education before graduating from The Open University with a first-class honours degree in literature. He describes himself variously as an author, poet, atheist, rationalist, sceptic and armchair revolutionary. After finding some success in the small presses, Darren made a breakthrough into the American paperback market, when his award-winning science fiction story 'The Key to Heaven's Gate' was included in The Best Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction of 2009, published by the Absent Willow Review. --- Tell us how you became interested in writing Oh, this is a sad story of regret and wasted opportunities! As a child, I was very 'forward' with reading and writing.  I was doing both fluently long before starting school, long before other kids my age.  The first story I ever wrote, I was probably...

Interview with Darren R. Scothern

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INTERVIEW WITH DARREN SCOTHERN By David Kempf Darren R. Scothern is an English author and poet. He was born in Sheffield in 1965, and had an average working class education before graduating from The Open University with a first-class honours degree in literature. He describes himself variously as an author, poet, atheist, rationalist, sceptic and armchair revolutionary. After finding some success in the small presses, Darren made a breakthrough into the American paperback market, when his award-winning science fiction story 'The Key to Heaven's Gate' was included in The Best Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction of 2009, published by the Absent Willow Review. --- Tell us how you became interested in writing Oh, this is a sad story of regret and wasted opportunities! As a child, I was very 'forward' with reading and writing.  I was doing both fluently long before starting school, long before other kids my age.  The first story I ever wrote, I was probably five or six ...

Interview with Darren R. Scothern

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INTERVIEW WITH DARREN SCOTHERN By David Kempf Darren R. Scothern is an English author and poet. He was born in Sheffield in 1965, and had an average working class education before graduating from The Open University with a first-class honours degree in literature. He describes himself variously as an author, poet, atheist, rationalist, sceptic and armchair revolutionary. After finding some success in the small presses, Darren made a breakthrough into the American paperback market, when his award-winning science fiction story 'The Key to Heaven's Gate' was included in The Best Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction of 2009, published by the Absent Willow Review. --- Tell us how you became interested in writing Oh, this is a sad story of regret and wasted opportunities! As a child, I was very 'forward' with reading and writing.  I was doing both fluently long before starting school, long before other kids my age.  The first story I ever wrote, I was probably five or six ...