Category: Memories
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New Date for FEAR & FILM
Pat’s 2018 live show FEAR & FILM, fresh from the wonderful Horror-on-Sea festival, has announced its next date. You can catch the full show at THREE WISE MONKEYS in Colchester on Thursday 12th April. Tickets are limited, but they’re on sale RIGHT NOW so grab one from the link below. The show is an interactive…
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TrashHouse hits Amazon Prime!
And here’s where it all started. Back in the first few weeks of 2004, we rented a warehouse in Shoeburyness and shot an insanely ambitious locked-house horror movie on cheaply built sets that still had the paint drying on them. It was an insane learning curve, back from the days when digital filmmaking was fraught…
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Retro Novelisation Covers!
Here at Jinx, we deeply love imagery that harks back to the horror that influenced us growing up. The final chapter of Nazi Zombie Death Tales is pretty much my love letter to rubber puppet horror movies like Ghoulies and Gremlins, and the office is covered in framed uk quad posters of genre movies of…
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TrashHouse: The Uncensored Truth
I was born in 1974. Movies were always my love and passion, ever since seeing Star Wars on the big screen on opening night at the Southend Odeon. It was December 1977, and I was three years old. In that same year, my amazing mum also took me to see the rerelease of 20,000 Leagues…
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Guest Blogger: Avri Klemer on Spookin’ 2
Pat’s movies are fun. This does not surprise me in the least, because Pat is fun. Pat and I go way back, back to a time when I had short hair. A time when we would stand around the playground discussing the previous night’s Moonlighting or Max Headroom episode. When we would watch cheesy movies…
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Little Shop of Horrors: The Theatrical vs The Director’s Cut vs The Workprint
I’m reeling a little. This morning, I was lecturing about screenwriting in general (and pleasing your audience in particular) and I mentioned the 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors. I spoke about that notorious test screening where the “Would you recommend to a friend?” cards allegedly came back with only 13% of affirmatives, dictating that…
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Gremlins, Poltergeist and The Exorcist: Age Appropriate?
Gremlins came out when I was 10. My parents were Daily M*il readers (it’s okay, they’ve stopped now. They probably got sick of me complaining endlessly about it from the age of about 15 onwards) and so the first time I ever heard about the flick was from a manufactured moral outrage piece in the…
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Childhood Terrors: Of Scanners, Spider-Man and Teeny Todd
Had a lovely interview over at Southend Radio at the weekend. Most of it should apparently be available soon over at the Horror on Sea Facebook page. As I mentioned on air, the first time I ever went on the radio I was about seven or eight, and complaining about how much horror posters scared…
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The Octopus that wasn’t in The Goonies
I think it’s fair to say that it all started with 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. My Mum took me to see a cinematic re-release of the 1954 Richard Fleischer version back in the Seventies. Common sense tells me it must have been around 1978, when I was four, but the official date for the…
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