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Radio Armageddon Way back in 1968, George A. Romero’s enormously influential horror Night of the Living Dead was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences. Its deceptively simple set-up – a group of survivors barricade themselves away from apocalyptic events, the situation deteriorates as what’s outside threatens to get in – has been used so often since (to [...] Dark vision Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago and director Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener (2005)) offer a disturbing, compelling take on a theme previously explored by British science fiction writer John Wyndham in The Day of the Triffids – just how bad would things really get if humanity, with but a few exceptions, was struck blind? [...] [photopress:black.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Slay ride Bob Clark (who’s sadly no longer with us, following his death in a car accident in 2007) was a fan of Christmas – his affectionate and hilarious homily to his own childhood Yuletide, A Christmas Story (1983), was preceded by Black Christmas (1974), which in turn, preceded the stalk ‘n’ slash craze of [...] |
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