Welcome to our review section for Issue # 3 (October 2007). We have divided our reviews into four categories: Books, Films, New Media (computer games, comics and graphic novels) and Television.  Simply click on the appropriate image or title to read them. To access reviews from previous issues please visit
     
                          
REVIEWS
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies:
Dexter (Showtime: FX, 2007)
Twin Peaks (1990-1991) ABC/Universal Home Entertainment (Season One)/Paramount Home Entertainment (Season Two)
Torchwood (BBC Three, 2006)
Supernatural (Seasons 1 & 2, UTV)
Jekyll (Hartswood Films/BBC/Stagescreen Productions, 2007)
Bioshock (Game Developer: Take 2 Interactive) Multi-Platform - Game reviewed on the Xbox 360
The Darkness (Game Developer: Take 2 Interactive) Multi-Platform – reviewed on the Xbox 360
Hack/Slash – First Cut Tim Seeley/ Stefano Caselli/ Sunder Raj (Devil's Due Publishing, 2007)
Doomed (IDW Publishing, 2007)
Jean Seaton, Carnage & the Media: The Making & Breaking of News About Violence; Joanna Bourke Fear: A Cultural History; Mark Ames, Going Postal: Rage, Murder & Rebellion in America
Jonathan Rigby, American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema
Shaun Hutson, Unmarked Graves
Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts
Charlie Huston, No Dominion
Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture, eds. Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn & Mary Paul
Grindhouse: Death Proof (Dir. Quentin Tarantino, USA 2007) & Planet Terror (Dir. Robert Rodriguez, USA 2007)
Halloween (Dir. Rob Zombie, USA, Dimension Films 2007)
Hostel: Part II (Dir. Eli Roth, USA, Lionsgate 2007)
Night of the Eagle (Dir. Sidney Hayers, UK 1962, Optimum Home Entertainment, 2007)
Peeping Tom (Dir: Michael Powell, UK 1960, Optimum Home Entertainment, 2007)
The Mind Benders (Dir. Basil Dearden, UK 1962 Optimum Home Entertainment, 2007)
The Host (Gwoemul) (Dir. Bong Joon-ho, South Korea, 2006, Optimum Asia)
1408 (Dir. Mikael Håfström, USA 2007, Dimension Films)
Black Sheep (Dir. Jonathan King, New Zealand 2006, Live Stock Films / New Zealand Film Commission)

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