Halloween

Have you ever wondered just what it was that set HeadStuff's film writers off on their dark obsessions with haunting and horror? Look no further! In the run-up to Halloween our film team have divulged on the films that first got them…

Some of us don't like to be scared: there's no shame in it. Some of us are just extremely impressionable and even a film aimed at children is enough to scare us: and honestly? That's... kind of embarrassing. But no matter. Regardless of…

Author, dreamweaver and visionary (plus actor) Garth Marenghi once said, “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.” Garth was certainly not speaking about the writers of Halloween Kills, because no film has shown me so…

It's almost Halloween and that means we only have a few days left to get into the spirit(s). Here are some appropriately spooky pods Roisin Moloney has chosen as her best podcasts for Halloween this year. The Battersea Poltergeist A…

It’s that time of year where we go out of our way to get scared, curling up late at night with the lights turned off, thinking a little too long and hard about all the things that go bump in the night. For some reason, each Halloween we do…

We all love to be scared. Even those people who refuse to watch horror movies because they get too scared still have the urge to peek at their TV screens behind the security of their couch pillows. Horror, more often than not, works so…

Scares apparent on NO ENCORE as Halloween arrives and the boys Dave Hanratty and Craig Fitzpatrick engage in fright mode to deliver their Top 5 Scary Songs. Tunes that unnerve and upset the soul for the season that's in it. There's also…

It’s that time of the year again when Darach, Gearóidín and Peadar turn out the lights, hold torches under their chins and tell spooky stories from around Ireland. Horror is, of course, often more about what you don’t see than what…

Can evil live in a place? If you’re brave enough you can find out; Just sit in the dark with us, and listen...' Last Halloween I was lucky enough to spend an evening at The Horror Writer by Emily Gillmor Murphy. It was an engaging,…

Episode 96 is Fireside of Horror II, the second Halloween special of Fireside; celebrating the gothic and the ghoulish in Irish literature, poetry and song. Kevin reads the eerie ballad of The LaKe of the Dismal Swamp Frankenstein’s…