EVERYONE WE SPEAK TO HAS A different nickname for it. The giant Ferrero Rocher (male lead Rafe Spall). The great Scotch egg (co-star Eleanor Tomlinson). A Chocolate Orange (the director). A painted Zorb ball (the producer). Our take? An enormous mouldy tangerine.
April 2018. SFX is at Ainsdale Nature Reserve, Merseyside, which is doubling for Horsell Common, near Woking, for a new three-part take on HG Wells’s Martian invasion classic The War Of The Worlds. Behind us a scar of devastation – blackened vegetation; scorched, snapped-off tree trunks – stretches a good hundred feet. (Don’t worry, ecologically-conscious readers: the production took advantage of some regular felling). Before us sits the alien object whose arrival caused it: a dirt-encrusted sphere maybe 15 feet in circumference, poking out of the ground. Spades and wheelbarrows suggest it’s been dug out, while trestle tables laden with scientific instruments and bottles of ginger beer attest that it’s become the object of great curiosity.
Stepping past IKEA bags full of Edwardian coats and hats, we perch on a blackened log as 70-odd supporting artists in period clobber – moustachioed bobbies with wooden truncheons, women holding their long dresses up to protect them from the mud – are led in. It’s the hottest day of the year so far – not, as one passing extra grumbles, the best time to be wearing four layers of tweed...
We observe a short scene being shot. The crowd looks on as a man moves forward, holding a handkerchief to his face, and gingerly places his palm on the pod, soil having dropped off it in parts to reveal a smooth black sphere beneath. When he lifts his hand off, it’s covered in something viscous and black.
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ANCER MAHAGEMENT
WITH A NEW TRILOGY IN SIGHT, WE SPEAK TO THE DIRECTOR OF 28 WEEKS LATER THE ORIGINAL CHILLING SEQUEL TO DANNY BOYLE'S SEMINAL SURVIVAL HORROR
WHO YA CONNA CALL?
BEHIND THE SCENES AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS FOR GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
THE DEVIL'S HOUR STRIKES TWICE AS THE GENREDEFYING DRAMA RETURNS
SCARRY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK
FROM THE RETURN OF EC COMICS TO SCREAM!, THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN OFFERS UP HORROR COMICS FOR ALL THE AGES
UNDEADS REFLECTIONS
NEIL JORDAN ON BRINGING ANNE RICE'S MODERN VAMPIRE CLASSIC TO SCREEN, 30 YEARS ON
MUNSTER MASH!
PRODUCTION HELL, SHOCK RECASTING AND HOTLY CONTESTED AUTHORSHIP. AS THE MUNSTERS CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY, WE UNCOVER HOW THE SPOOKY SITCOM WAS ALMOST DEAD ON ARRIVAL
COMING TO AMERICA
THE MOGWAI LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THEIR SECOND CHAPTER, GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH
BEING HUMAN EVOLUTION
IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN INSTANT HIT, BUT BBC THREE'S DARKLY COMIC DRAMA ABOUT A HOUSE-SHARING VAMPIRE/WEREWOLF/GHOST TRIO HAD A STRANGE JOURNEY TO THE SCREEN, SERIES CREATOR TOBY WHITHOUSE TELLS SFX
THE MAINE EVENT
THE DARK IS RISING IN SALEM'S LOT AS STEPHEN KING'S DEATHLESS TALE RETURNS TO THE SCREEN
WHY DON'T YOU STAY FOR A BITE?
THE VAMPIRE COMES HOME AS DIRECTOR EUROS LYN WELCOMES SFX TO HIS NEW DARK COMEDY THE RADLEYS