Films
REVIEW: Super Dark Times
- By Stephen Harper
You’d be forgiven if you were attracted to Super Dark Times due to its atmospheric, retro-layered poster and throwing up similarities to the whole Stranger Things fanfare with its youth led narrative and its nostalgic ingredients,… Continue reading
REVIEW: The Incantation
- By MovieCritic NextDoor
It’s a common staple of fairy tales, rags to riches stories, and daydreamers everywhere: the sudden discovery of a wealthy, long-lost relative who leaves you a fortune, or at least a grand, isolated mansion. In the… Continue reading
REVIEW: Poor Agnes
- By Allan Lear
There’s a list that does the rounds every so often that purports to be magicked up from the depths of the psychiatric profession. Let’s see if you can guess whom it describes. It’s a list of… Continue reading
REVIEW: The Spiderwebhouse
- By Sooz Webb
Growing up isn’t easy and if I’m honest, I’m still having trouble coming to terms with it. But sometimes the decision to live as an eternal kidult is taken away from us, with youngsters shouldering the… Continue reading
REVIEW: Burn Time
- By Sooz Webb
In the midst of UK winter, when you’re wrapped like a mummy in hoodies, jumpers and layers of thermals, it’s hard to imagine that elsewhere in the world could be anything but cold. But, such narrow… Continue reading
Slaughtered Bird Films’ horror short film, BURN, nabs festival awards!
We don’t like to blow our own trumpets here at The Slaughtered Bird but, y’know, FUCK IT - we’re damn proud of our debut film production, BURN, created in collaboration with Dragon Egg Media!
Since post-production finished last year,… Continue reading
REVIEW: Unlisted Owner
- By Dave Dubrow
So there I was, minding my own business, doing no harm to anyone, when Chris Barnes, proprietor of The Slaughtered Bird, called me on the telephone. *
“Hello?” I answered.
“It’s me, mate.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah. Oh.… Continue reading
REVIEW: Released from Love
- By MovieCritic NextDoor
There’s an old saying about how some people eat to live, while others live to eat. And it’s true that some people will never be foodies — for me, food is really just the necessary fuel… Continue reading
REVIEW: Hectic Knife
- By MovieCritic NextDoor
In a nameless, crime-ridden big city, one vigilante struggles to keep the peace by killing nearly everyone he meets. I suppose fewer people equals less crime, even if not necessarily per capita, but it still doesn’t… Continue reading
DARK WEB: STEVEN HICKEY’S NEW GUIDE TO CREEPYPASTA — PART 2: THE GOATMAN (part one)
Sometimes on very, very rare occasions a creepypasta comes along that is so compelling, it almost invents a new form of folklore. On other occasions, the pasta is able to tap into existing urban legends and myths to create a… Continue reading
We don’t like to blow our own trumpets here at The Slaughtered Bird but, y’know, FUCK IT – we’re damn proud of our debut film production, BURN, created in collaboration with Dragon Egg Media!
Since post-production finished last year, our 15-minute short has received numerous excellent reviews, been busy finding its feet on the festival circuit and gratefully receiving many Official Selection laurels from around the world, and now it’s picked up its first award… or three!
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It’s not every day you get to speak to the lead actor in possibly your favourite horror film of all time. Especially on a Tuesday. Tuesdays are usually rubbish!
David Naughton should need no introduction to horror fans. Back in 1981, An American Werewolf In London had unprepared cinema goers laughing heartily one second and jumping out of their seats in terror the next. Its tale of two young American tourists coming face-to-teeth with a legendary lycanthropic beast perfectly married a genuinely funny script with razor sharp editing, groundbreaking special effects and a flawless cast to create a monster movie that is still many people’s benchmark today
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Read on...REVIEW: Super Dark Times
- By Stephen Harper You'd be forgiven if you were attracted to Super Dark Times due to its atmospheric, retro-layered poster and throwing up similarities to the whole Stranger Things fanfare with its youth led narrative and its nostalgic ingredients, but although the film is excellent in capturing details from its period, that's where the similarities end. Set in 1996 against the stunning backdrop of upstate New York, we follow lifelong friends Zack (Owen Campbell) and Josh (Charlie Tahan) as they linger between youthful exuberance and adulthood.REVIEW: The Incantation
- By MovieCritic NextDoor It's a common staple of fairy tales, rags to riches stories, and daydreamers everywhere: the sudden discovery of a wealthy, long-lost relative who leaves you a fortune, or at least a grand, isolated mansion.REVIEW: Poor Agnes
- By Allan Lear
There’s a list that does the rounds every so often that purports to be magicked up from the depths of the psychiatric profession. Let’s see if you can guess whom it describes.
INTERVIEW: Ben Dukes, star of Karate Kill
Following on from Stephen Harper's complimentary review of wacky action romp KARATE KILL (out this month on DVD and Blu-ray), we chatted to star Ben Dukes for The Slaughtered Bird.How did you get involved in Karate Kill?
INTERVIEW: Ryan Bellgardt, director of Gremlin
Following on from MovieCritic NextDoor's recent Gremlin review, we interviewed director Ryan Bellgardt.
How did you come up with Gremlin's concept?
INTERVIEW: José Pedro Lopes & Daniela Love
- By Chris Barnes
Ten years after producing their first short film, The Bride, a giallo horror short that played in Women in Horror festivals around the world, production company Anexo 82 took the plunge and decided to make their first feature film, The Forest of Lost Souls.
Anexo 82 is the joint effort of Ana Almeida and José Pedro Lopes.
Gil Valle, NYPD’s “Cannibal Cop”, Channels Fantasy into Fiction in His Debut Novel, A Gathering of Evil
NEW RELEASE FROM COMET PRESS
Gil Valle, the former NYPD patrol cop who rose to infamy in 2012 after he was wrongfully arrested by the feds for allegedly plotting to kidnap, cook, and eat women, fleshes out his fantasies in his debut novel, A Gathering of Evil, serving up a feast of gut-churning horror.
A Gathering of Evil is a graphic and disturbing story that will make even the most hardened fan of extreme horror squirm, including the Comet Press editors, who specialize in publishing extreme horror and hardcore dark crime:
WIN I-DEF-I's album In The Light Of A New Day & Bloodlust Casualty mini album
We're having a break from the norm today at The Slaughtered Bird and focusing on a local(ish) band that have caught our attention this week. Manchester based I-DEF-I have recently re-released much of their catalog directly from the band via New York based service DISTROKID.
H.P. Lovecraft’s DAGON, a short film adaptation project
Calling all Deep Ones and Elder Things!
Shooting in January and February for a Summer 2018 release – H.