Features The 10 best movies of 2023From sinister dismembered hands to teenage summer benders to psychotic killer robots, it’s been quite the year on the big screen. Here, we look at the 10 best flicks of 2023.
The Cover Story Ice Nine Kills: “Horror has always been in my blood and it always will be”Horror isn’t just a hobby for Spencer Charnas, it’s a way of life. Growing up on a steady diet of slasher flicks and heavy music, it was inevitable he’d find an outlet for his twin passions, but few could have predicted the runaway ghost train of Ice Nine Kills. As Halloween approaches, the violence-loving visionary takes us inside his own personal creepshow…
Reviews Film review: OppenheimerCillian Murphy tackles one of modern history’s most complicated figures in Christopher Nolan’s cautionary epic, Oppenheimer...
Reviews Book review: Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric WizardDan Franklin takes you on a wild trip through the world of one of the UK’s most important and mysterious bands, Dorset doomers Electric Wizard…
Reviews Album review: OHHMS – RotKent sludge-metallers OHHMS get ghoulish on brilliantly bloodstained sixth album Rot…
News Demi Lovato releases Still Alive video featuring Mike Shinoda, Spencer CharnasWatch the video for Demi Lovato’s new Scream VI single Still Alive, which features cameos from the song’s co-writer/producer Mike Shinoda, and Ice Nine Kills frontman Spencer Charnas.
News Director Tim Burton explains how he relates to “classic outsider” Wednesday AddamsWith Netflix’s Wednesday series dropping this month, director and executive producer Tim Burton reflects on the lead character being “the ultimate outcast”, and how “it’s easy for me to relate to”.
Features “I got fried-chickened at the chicken joint!”: 13 Questions with Wednesday 13From aspiring to be an action hero to popping his bicep at the fried chicken joint, horror-punk icon Wednesday 13 takes a stab at Kerrang!’s 13 Questions…
Features 15 years on, did The Simpsons Movie mark the beginning of the end?A decade and a half ago, The Simpsons Movie finally brought the yellow inhabitants of Springfield to the big screen. A watershed moment for sure, but it also signalled a sea-change for fans of all things cromulent and arguably marked the beginning of the end...
Culture The Midas Touch: Everything Emmy Raver-Lampman touches turns to goldFrom Hamilton to The Umbrella Academy and beyond, Emmy Raver-Lampman has become the secret ingredient to success. We sit down with the rising star to discuss everything from inhabiting Poison Ivy to low-budget horror laughs…
Features 13 of the best songs about bad luckIn honour of Friday the 13th, here are 13 songs about when fortune frowns on you. Watch out for those black cats!
Features Mosh: The Manchester film festival bringing metal to the big screenAhead of the inaugural Mosh Film Fest in Manchester, we meet co-founder Greg Walker to explore the relationship between heavy metal and Hollywood…
Features “You can find out a lot about what you’re doing by f*cking up a little bit”: Puppy dig into their Pure Evil returnWhere 2019’s debut LP The Goat found London metallers Puppy infiltrating the upper echelons of Britrock, killer follow-up Pure Evil is all about rekindling the freewheeling juvenilia that got them there in the first place…
Reviews Film review: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of MadnessSchlock-horror icon Sam Raimi gleefully turns the MCU inside-out with Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness...
Culture 25 years on, how well did The Fifth Element predict the future?Flying cars, baffling hairstyles, secret religious societies and Lee Evans for some reason, The Fifth Element has it all and then some. But how much did the cult sci-fi smash accurately predict with its idea of the future? Multipass, anyone?
Features Kirk Hammett: “It’s weird, I’m 59 years old and I don’t think I’ve even peaked creatively or musically”Fresh from the release of his debut solo EP Portals, Kirk Hammett talks creativity away from Metallica, the “audio cinematic approach”, and why he’s still got so much left in the tank…