An Overview of Horror Films Transformed into Comics Forgive the slightly hand-holding title but there is, of course, a very big distinction between comics which were based on horror films and those which spawned films. Very much the errant cousin of film novelisations, this strand of comic allowed the writer and illustrator to ‘finish off’ […]
BAD NEWS Every Mistake Imaginable – The Complete Frilly Pink Years 1987-1988 1991. The Berlin Wall has fallen only a few weeks ago. The Iron Curtain has given way, the shackles on the Eastern Bloc have been wrenched asunder, and the world watched agog as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved. Meanwhile, cloaked by […]
The Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures might not be the go-to group on Spotify right now, I really couldn’t say. However, it would give humanity as a whole a tremendous boost if everyone were to run out immediately and listen to their remarkable, otherworldly creations. There are some composers who worked for years to bring to life […]
‘Gargoyles,’ the TV movie which first aired on CBS in America in 1972, may not be the best example of its kind, but it may well be its most extraordinary. With the lines now completely eradicated, it already seems a little odd that there was once such a distinction which needed to be made – […]
Keep Repeating, “It’s only a ZX Spectrum game, it’s only…” As a rule, if a game was released on the ZX Spectrum based on a film, the likelihood was that it was terrible beyond measure. Whether it was seemingly unmissable targets like ‘Ghostbusters’ or “it seemed like a good idea at the time” acquisitions like […]
I recently watched ‘Evil Dead Rise‘, a film so bad that I believe I may be the only person outside of cartoons to have had random punctuation spill out of their mouth. Amongst the inexplicable awfulness was a particularly bad score by Stephen McKeon, one so lazy and bereft of invention that I’m amazed anyone […]
The Mad, Sad World of the Boutique Blu-Ray There’s a recently released study which suggests 50% of US vinyl buyers don’t have a turntable to play them on. This study is wheeled out every year, but it’s a fun one that causes much teeth-grinding from many record-playing purists, and a nervous defence from those practising […]
It has been just under 25 years since the band Tad split up. Their final single, ‘Oppenheimer’s Pretty Nightmare‘, was released in 1999, and a collection of latter-day recordings and errant stray tracks, ‘Quick and Dirty‘ appeared in 2018. Since then, Tad (the man) formed the band Hog Molly, releasing one album, ‘Kung-Fu Cocktail Grip‘ […]
David Rappaport was unquestionably one of Britain’s greatest actors of the 70s and 80s. Intelligent, witty, debonair and at home playing both good guys and bad, that there isn’t a physical tribute to him is scandalous. From the stage to hit television shows on both sides of the Atlantic to blockbuster movies, it was impossible […]
For some time now, my phone’s ringtone has been “Be a Clown” performed by Verne Langdon. There has never been an occasion when my phone has rung and the tune it plays has been appropriate. Not at the doctor’s, at work, at funerals, whilst shopping… it’s guaranteed to provoke weird looks and, for some reason, […]
