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Fantastical, Flawed and Madcap: 1980s British Horror

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We take a look back at the curious case of 80s British Horror – an era of odd fusions, oddities, indulgent auteurs and flawed cult favourites… Think of those iconic periods in horror around the world. German expressionist horror of the 1920s and 30s, the Giallo boom of the 60s and 70s, British hammer horror […]

Who is the Best Final Girl in Horror?

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EJ Moreno looks at ten influential and badass final girls… Did Carol J. Clover think we’d have endless discourse around the term she coined in her 1992 novel Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film? God, no, but thankfully she’s given horror fans endless conversations about who is the real screaming queen […]

The hunt begins with Dead by Daylight: Alien launch

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The hunt begins on Dead By Daylight with Behaviour Interactive announcing the release of its eagerly-anticipated Alien content which brings the iconic Ellen Ripley and the equally iconic Xenomorph into the hit multiplayer action horror game. The Dead by Daylight: Alien chapter allows players to explore the wreckage of the Nostromo, the original ship from […]

Dead by Daylight’s Alien trailer introduces Ellen Ripley and the Xenomorph

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Earlier this month it was announced that the Alien franchise is coming to Dead by Daylight, and now Behaviour Interactive has released a trailer for the upcoming update to the multiplayer survival horror which takes us to the wreckage of the Nostromo and teases its new Killer character the Xenomorph, along with one of the […]

Alien’s Xenomorph is heading to Dead by Daylight

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If you’ve only just gotten used to the idea of Nicolas Cage running around in the popular multiplayer survival game Dead by Daylight, then brace yourself for an even bigger screen icon to chest-burst its way into that world, with the news that Alien‘s Xenomorph will join the likes of Leatherface, Michael Myers, and Freddy […]

Noah Hawley’s Alien series cast revealed as production begins on FX show

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Despite disruption from the ongoing strikes which have ground Hollywood studios to a halt, FX’s long-gestating Alien series has kicked off production in Thailand this past week – although for the time being the project is having to shoot around its SAG-AFTRA-affiliated cast members who remain unavailable due to the ongoing industrial action. The Alien […]

A war between Xenomorphs erupts in Marvel’s Alien Annual

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Marvel Comics have announced that Alien series writer Declan Shalvey is teaming with artist Danny Earls to present a double-sized standalone tale in Alien Annual #1 this October which will pit the iconic Xenomorphs against a newly-discovered subspecies for some all-out Alien on Alien war! “Writing Alien has been a fantastic experience so far, digging […]