Interviews

Dario Argento - Director of Deep Red, Suspiria, Tenebrae etc.

Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet - Writers/directors of Amer

Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni - Star of Demons II, Opera and Mother of Tears

Maitland McDonagh  - Author of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

Bill Moseley - Star of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Pt II, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects

Jon Towlson - Author of Subversive Horror Cinema 
 
 Jack Zipes - Author of The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World and Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas - Author of Suspiria (Auteur Publishing), Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality

Jez Conolly - Co-author of Dead of Night (Auteur Publishing)

Alan Howarth - Composer (Halloween II-VI, They Live, Prince of Darkness)

Jonathan Snipes - Composer (Starry Eyes, Room 237, The Nightmare)

Rich Vreeland AKA Disasterpiece - Composer (It Follows, FEZ) 

Christine Makepeace - Co-founder and editor of Paracinema

Christine Makepeace on her debut novel, contemporary Gothic character study, Wake Up, Maggie

INJ Culbard on his graphic novel adaptations of the work of HP Lovecraft

Johnny Mains - Author/Editor of 'The Sorcerers by John Burke' and Back From the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories 

The BFI's Sam Dunn & Rhidian Davis on Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film

Sean Keller - Co-writer of Giallo

Sean Keller on his creepy poetry book for children, 'Underneath the Bed & Other Nightmares'

Marco Werba - Composer (Giallo, Colour From the Dark)

Lawrie Brewster - Director of Lord of Tears, The Unkindness of Ravens

Kerry Anne Mullraney - Director of The Dead Outside
 
Sean Hogan - Writer/Director of The Devil's Business 

Ryan Haysom - Director of neo-giallo short, Yellow

Tim Sullivan - Director of 2001 Maniacs, Deadwood and 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

Christian Sellers and Gary Smart - Authors of ‘The Complete History of The Return of the Living Dead'
 
Reg Traviss - Director of Psychosis 

Éric Falardeau - Writer/director of Thanatomorphose

Ryan Haysom, Jon Britt and Catherine Morawitz - Makers of neo-giallo short, Yellow

Mark Colegrove - Director of Isle of the Damned

Ian Powell - Director of Seeing Heaven

Ben Muir - Writer of How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse!

John Rosenberg - Editor of The Convent, Poison Ivy III and Body Count

Nathan Shumate - Author of The Golden Age of Crap

Pat Higgins - Director of Hellbride

John Michael Elfers - Writer/director of Finale

Wyatt Weed - Director of Shadowland

Dave Parker - Director of The Hills Run Red

George Clarke - Writer/director of Battle of the Bone

Ivan Zuccon - Director of The Colour from the Dark

Paul Solet - Director of Grace

Robbie Bryan - Director of imurders 


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