Essays & opinion
Before The Love Witch, Anna Biller Put Herself Inside the Fantasy
Lawrie Brewster explores Anna Biller in Viva: her performance as Barbi, feminine glamour and the courage behind her first feature before The Love Witch.
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Anna Biller and the Trouble with Calling Everything Camp
Lawrie Brewster explores Anna Biller, The Love Witch and The Face of Horror, asking why horror audiences sometimes mistake cinematic sincerity for camp.
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Is Acting Still a Craft? Megan Tremethick on Training, Tradition and Indie Horror
Is acting still a craft? Megan Tremethick discusses classical training, self-education, emotional truth and the changing world of indie horror.
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Wuthering Heights Is a Storm, Not “Toxic Romance”
Why Wuthering Heights isn’t “toxic romance”: a critique of modern reductionism and a defence of Brontë’s elemental Gothic vision.
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The Return of Tigon? Yes… but Not Quite, Says Filmmaker Lawrie Brewster
According to filmmaker Lawrie Brewster, the launch of The B-Team marks one of the most significant shifts in British indie horror in recent years.
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Lawrie Brewster: Horror Filmmakers Deserve Rest to Survive the Stress
Lawrie Brewster talks about the need to take breaks from horror filmmaking to embrace fresh air, face paint and friendship and why rest matters more than ever.
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Lawrie Brewster’s 5 Brutally Honest Tips for Indie Filmmaking Success
After 15 years in indie horror, Lawrie Brewster shares 5 brutally honest lessons every filmmaker should know... to save you time, stress, and a world of pain!"
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Lawrie Brewster Warns of a Broken Industry and How Indie Horror Can Survive
Veteran horror filmmaker Lawrie Brewster shares his thoughts on the decline of indie film markets and why he’s building a studio outside the system.
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Lawrie Brewster Unveils Queen Ginnarra, an Operatic Nightmare of Faith, Power and the Abyss
Lawrie Brewster unveils Queen Ginnarra, a dark fantasy epic of betrayal, occult power and cosmic dread, where myth bleeds into madness and horror wears a crown.
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Lawrie Brewster: My Path from Outsider to Horror Success
Filmmaker Lawrie Brewster shares his journey from a working-class background to becoming a leading name in British indie horror
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Amicus Horror is Back and Ready to Shake Up Indie Horror News
Editor Kieran Fisher joins Lawrie Brewster to lead Amicus Horror, a bold new platform celebrating British indie horror, classic chills, and genre news.
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In Fierce Defence of Deathstalker: Lawrie Brewster Battles to Save Sword and Sorcery
Lawrie Brewster defends cult classic Deathstalker and calls for a revival of sword and sorcery, a fantasy genre long dismissed but never forgotten.
From the archive
A Bloody Christmas Ritual: The Haunting Story of 'Black Santa'
An introduction by Lawrie Brewster And, upon this wintry day, full of dew and dreadful dreariness, I bring to you the most shocking and absurd Christmas horror tale ever to be conceived by the minds of mad, mortal men. So much so that even the mad Arab Alhazre
Interviews
Lyndsey Craine: The Girl Next Door of British Indie Horror
There are few survivors in the horrifying and challenging environment of independent film. Those who remain, with sinewy bodies, drag their skeletal frames across a desert landscape from one forgettable horror film festival to another, from Milton Keynes to Lo
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Three Remakes Hammer Films Should Make
John Gore has teased remaking some Hammer Films classics, and these flicks are perfect for the makeover treatment.
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So I Watched 'Hammer A.D. 2023' and Dissected the Studio's Vision for the Future. This is What I Thought
Amicus Productions' Lawrie Brewster reviews Hammer Films' comeback video and questions John Gore's intentions.
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'The Fall of the House of Usher' and the Enduring Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix proves that Edgar Allan Poe's macabre stories are timeless tragedies.
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'And Now the Screaming Starts!': A Detached Hand and Ample Bosoms Collide in a Labyrinthine Gothic Tale
And Now the Screaming Starts! saw the original Amicus Productions adapt a Gothic period drama and add more horror elements.