Bava and Argento – horror pioneers
Originally posted to the Liverpool Small Cinema website The concept of Giallo was nothing new in Italy when...
Category: Writing
Anthropophagous The Beast and the glories of the video nasties
Originally published for Liverpool Small Cinema Thirty years ago this month the Video Recordings Act came into force, finally...
Female Trouble and the art of offence
Originally written for Liverpool Small Cinema Cheap Thrills’ Christopher Brown talks Female Trouble and why you should embrace the...
Trick R Treat is the Halloween movie you need in your life
Originally published for Liverpool Small Cinema Cheap Thrills organiser Christopher Brown explains why Trick ‘r Treat is the horror...
Videodrome: sex, lies and videotape
Originally published for Liverpool Small Cinema Cheap Thrills organiser Christopher Brown takes a look at David Cronenberg’s notorious ’80s...
Enter The Dragon fighting the censors
Originally published for Liverpool Small Cinema Cheap Thrills programmer Christopher Brown discusses Enter The Dragon’s history with the BBFC....
Plan 9 From Outer Space and how bad movies have changed
Originally published for Liverpool Small Cinema By Cheap Thrills organiser, Christopher Brown The world of the bad movie has...
Exploitation cinema and Cheap Thrills
Originally published for Liverpool Small Cinema Programmer Christopher Brown gives some background to the Cheap Thrills film night, launching with...
The Black Cat 1934
Originally published on Feeling Listless Film Chris Brown, the host of the History of Horror Podcast has been kind...
Response to the 2011 riots
I wrote this on TwitLonger back in 2011. I’m putting it here just so I don’t lose it as...