Zelda Rubinstein speaks at a screening of Poltergeist in Santa Monica, California on June 16, 2007 RIP Zelda Rubinstein (1933 – 2010) Poltergeist’s eccentric medium, Tangina Barrons – known in real life as Zelda Rubinstein – has died aged 76. 

Sore experience: Watching five Saw films back-to-back I’m too hungover to update, and everyone is geeking out to Steve Jobs announcing the iPad anyway. In lieu of a test card, have this link to an article I wrote on the Saw All-Nighter for the Guardian. Try to ignore my stupid fucking hair in the byline photo. It was 2008. Mistakes were made.

Stalk @FYHorror on Twitter Tweet tweet, Clarice … We are finally on Twitter. This will keep you updated on new stuff as soon as it’s fired from the barrel of our minds. There might also be some musings from Jimboeth and Henry Hate. Morganonyx lives in a bloodstained shack in the depths of the woods, and is probably too busy hacking up pretty teens, but… Stranger things have happened, my pretties, stranger things have happened.

This is showing at the Curzon in Soho, this friday: 22/01/2010. House (1977) Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi Japan, 87 mins, Japanese with English subtitles Curzon Midnight Movies and the Masters of Cinema bring you this rarely seen kaleidoscopic, supernatural, Japanese curio on the big screen – best described as ‘Scooby Doo on acid’ and compared to The Shining and The Yellow Submarine! When Angel takes her friends to her aunt’s isolated mansion, dormant secrets are set to terrify and test the girls to their limits.  

With the upcoming A Nightmare On Elm Street remake to hit cinemas this spring (Friday 7 May 2010) I thought it would be interesting to ponder whether or not the “new” Freddy Krueger will be a success. For those of you who don’t know (anyone?), legendary Freddy actor Robert Englund will not be reprising the role he made his own when the original was released 26 years ago. Unlike fellow popular slasher franchises Friday The 13th, Halloween and A Texas Chainsaw Massacre (who have chopped, changed and rearranged the actors for their iconic villains more times than Jason, Michael and Leatherface have chopped, changed and rearranged their victim’s bodies) Englund has played antagonist Freddy Krueger in every A Nightmare...

I’m writing this for a few reasons. One, I fucking love rock’n’roll. Second, I love horror films. Finally, a certain web site’s top 10 was, well, in satanic terms – fucking sacrilegious! Hell yeah I said it. Whose mother wrote that shit? Whoever it was didn’t do enough drugs or catch enough VD. Not very rock’n’roll. Come on – where’s the sex, where’s the drugs, where’s the frantic NO from your mom decreeing Thou Shall Not See This Movie?! They say the Devil has the best fucking tunes (well, I have fucked to most of them, at one time or another). So right here is my humble list of rock’n’roll movies you must see. And if you get the...

OK, you’re probably wondering why there’s a pic of The Blair Witch Project slapped on a post discussing the poor box office performance of Saw VI … Here goes: Saw VI has been beaten to the no 1 slot in the US by low budget shaky-cam Blair Witch “rip-off” Paranormal Activity (I use the term “rip-off” loosely as horror purists swear that The Blair Witch stole the documentary film idea from the awful Cannibal Holocaust). The latest in the franchise, which has ruled the Halloween box office for the past five years earned a pathetic $14.1m. While some of you may be thinking that’s not a bad effort, it’s the worst performance from all six Saw movies so far in the US and UK! You just need to look at...

If you’re a sucker for body horror, then this my friend is right up your alley! Yes, pun intended. Think David Cronenberg jizzing all over a Takashi Miike script. Dutch director Tom Six turns in this opus about three unfortunate people doomed by the hands of one demented Doctor. Renowned Dr Heiter is a specialist in separating Siamese twins, and has a hair-brained scheme to connect people, in more ways than one. Needless to say, things take an ugly, nasty turn. Two American girls become stranded and find themselves at the door of the warped doctors lair-come-hospital of torture-doom. Seizing his moment to find a head, he takes hold of a Japanese tourist. Tissue matches are done, and there’s...

Pandorum Trailer From the producers of the Resident Evil film franchise comes Pandorum, a terrifying thriller in which two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they’ve been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they’re actually not alone- and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined. Really looking forward to this (despite some questionable early promo material of a Photoshopped woman – looking like Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler). It opens in the UK tonight, and FYH would be at the cinema this very eve, if we weren’t coming down with flu. Sniffle.  

The Traveling Executioner Anyone know anything about this? FYH stumbled upon this recently. It’s exploitation Jim, but not as we know it.