Posts Tagged ‘scary’

Another month another comic con. Wait? What? This isn’t a comic convention?  A horror convention?!! Where have you been all my life!?

For one weekend in February Screamvention took over the Red Cow Moran Hotel in Dublin and for those two days February turned into FebruGORY with horror icons flooding in from all over the world to spend some time with their fans! For something so new and niche it’s always interesting to see how it turns out and below you’ll see what I took from this weekend. (more…)

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A summer camp filled with teens in the eighties, can you think of a more generic setting for a horror film?! Well that’s what I was thinking on my way to the screening of Sleepaway Camp. The event was hosted by the sisters at The Blood Donor Film Club in Dublin’s City Centre, or The Church Bar to be exact.

The first thing you notice about Sleepaway is that were not looking at kids in their late teens but actually in their early teens, which was a nice change of events!  The start we see a family on a boat, the father, daughter and son. The boat tips and the family gets run over by a speed boat and we see the body of the father floating in the water, accompanied by a life jacket! (more…)

AkroFM

Good evening and welcome to the first episode of AkroFM an audio segment of the blog which we talk about various events and news that been happening in the digital and polygon world, but this time it is a real case scenario, and its quite shocking, click below to give it a listen!

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highlights of horror

So below I’ve compiled a small list of some of the horror movies that have influenced me over the years, some may not have any descriptions and there may be a few missing but the great thing about the site I’m using to create this I can edit anytime and add more! Which I will be doing.

So if you follow me on Twitter or on Facebook you will get an update every time I update this post along with a link, how awesome is that?!

You can check the slideshow out by clicking HERE!

Anyway, enjoy!

Adam Waugh.

A History of Horror

The horror genre has been one of the most popular genres in film since the beginning of the movie theatre. But modern horror has been taking a turn for the worse. Horror films today have been inclined to show more gore than actual horror and this has then made a new sub genre know as Gorno, or Gornography. Recently horror has begun to get popular again, with the release of “Sinister” and “Paranormal Activity 4” (Some may argue that’s not the case!). But horror was not always like this, let’s take a trip through the history of the horror genre and find out how it’s advanced since the black and white times of Nosferatu. (more…)