HorrorCon UK 2016
HorrorCon UK returns in 2016 to bring you more gore than ever before on the 9th & 10th July 2016 at ‘Magna Science Adventure Centre, Sheffield Road, Rotherham S60 1DX.
With over 2500 visitors in 2015, HorrorCon UK 2016 promises to be even bigger and better!
Plan on spending the day at HorrorCon UK or better still the weekend – there’s lots to see and do included in the ticket price!!!
HorrorCon UK provides an atmospheric space where like minded fans and fiends can get together to celebrate the weird and wonderful world of horror!
A friendly place where you can meet and speak with some of the most iconic names in horror and maybe purchase an autograph or photo.
Included in the ticket price are facilitated Q&A’s with star guests, including Doug Bradley and Kane Hodder, David Naughton, Linnea Quigley, Graham Masterton, Shaun Hutson, Jason Love, ! (More guests to be announced soon). Special Effects make up demos (including SFX make up artist Mike Peel – The Descent, Harry Potter). Guest talks from famous authors and from experts on the paranormal plus live music to round off the day from the zombie band Iron Sphincter.
Many HorrorCon UK visitors last year dressed up as their favourite horror characters and this year we have added Cosplay Competitions for those brave enough to enter!
There is also a huge horror market selling everything from clothes, poker chips, books, original art, DVD/Blu-Rays, masks, posters, props, toys, jewellery, cakes, confectionery and homeware and lots of other assorted merchandise from our amazing vendors which includes authors and film makers.
Tickets are available now at:-www.horrorconventions.co.uk
For trader information or any other query about trading, promoting or exhibiting at HorrorCon UK 2016, please email: [email protected]
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2 of Britain’s leading horror websites, UK Horror Scene and The Slaughtered Bird, have teamed up to bring the UK a new horror film festival in May 2017.
TripleSix will be a 2-day horror film festival in Manchester over the Bank Holiday weekend 27th & 28th of May 2017. Not only that, but TripleSix have partnered with AMC cinema in Manchester to bring the best in comfort, state-of-the-art facilities and professionalism.
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Star of one of our most popular TV soaps, Emmerdale, Dominic Brunt is known in every household here in the UK. On top of this, he's also forging quite a reputation as one of the best indie horror filmmakers in Britain - his directorial debut feature, Before Dawn, was very well received upon its release in 2013 and more recently his second feature, Bait, has accumulated plenty of critical acclaim worldwide.
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Slaughtered Bird Creations and Dragon Egg Media’s debut film collaboration, Burn, has wrapped and entered post-production. Our very own short psychological horror – directed by Judson Vaughan, creator of Pedro and the multi award-winning Soul Breaker – was filmed during February in Hertfordshire and north London, UK, over three days.
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We currently have advertising space available at very reasonable rates, so if you have a product you want to let people know about then please email us at [email protected] with your needs and we can give you more info.
Read on...BOOK REVIEW: Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1
- By Dave Dubrow
Taking the title of Comet Press’s anthology Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1 at face value rather than a product of the editors’ preferences is a disquieting proposition, but we’ll go with it. There’s a great deal to be learned about the horror genre as it stands today from this collection, some of it good, some of it dismaying.
REVIEW: Delusion
- By MovieCritic NextDoor It's rough moving on after the death of a loved one... especially when you're hallucinating that deceased loved one, among other things.BOOK REVIEW: Run To Ground
- By Dave Dubrow Jasper Bark’s Run to Ground is a story of unusual power, showcasing Bark’s skill at taking the indescribable and making it completely, dreadfully real. Despite its fast pace it’s still a bit self-indulgent in its length, combining flashbacks and a cast of characters that could have been shortened to maximize the narrative’s punch.INTERVIEW: Stephen Manley
We're extremely honoured this month that veteran actor Stephen Manley has popped by to chat to us. Stephen has been performing in some of the most iconic TV shows and film none stop since the late 70', with Trekkie's best knowing him from playing the young Spock in Star Trek III.
INTERVIEW: Jeff Conolly & Ben Daniels
INTERVIEW: Jeff Conolly & Ben Daniels
By Dave Dubrow
Jeff Conolly and Ben Daniels, authors of the extraordinary novella Detroit 2020 (reviewed here) were kind enough to sit down for an interview.
INTERVIEW: Zsombor Huszka
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SRS Cinema continues on a bloody path with the release of notorious "Snuff Tape Anthology" from German artist "El Gore". The anthology depicts short after short of mind-warping scenes that's sure to shake the most hardcore gore fans to their very core.