Archive of Tom Paskins

Tom Paskins has written 10 articles on The Gothic Imagination.

Currently studying the Mlitt in the Gothic Imagination. Distance runner, mountaineer and die hard Pogues fan!! Also like to think of myself as an amateur freelance film and literature journalist.

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Scream 4 (2011)

Posted by Tom Paskins on January 25, 2011 in Blog, News tagged with , , , , ,

Fifteen years after the original Scream film came out and eleven years since the release of Scream 3, director Wes Craven and screen writer Kevin Williamson are returning to the franchise for a fourth installment of the series.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight

Posted by Tom Paskins on January 08, 2011 in Blog, Reviews tagged with , , , ,

Ever since George Lucas resurrected the Star Wars franchise in 1999 with Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, there seems to have been a trend for film makers to try and breathe fresh life into series which have apparently long since died a death

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Lesbians and Bugs. Degeneration, Sexual Transgression and the ‘Abhuman’ in Lucky McKee’s Sick Girl

Posted by Tom Paskins on January 04, 2011 in Blog, Reviews tagged with , , , ,

Masters of Horror was an American television series which was created by horror film director Mick Garris and ran for two seasons between 2005 and 2006.

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Rogue (Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Outback)

Posted by Tom Paskins on December 31, 2010 in Blog, Reviews tagged with , , , ,

Ever since the release of Lake Placid in 1999 there have been too many films released about killer crocodiles to count. Most of these are low budget, direct to DVD affairs and range from awful to well…even more awful.

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Whistle and I’ll Come to You review

Posted by Tom Paskins on December 26, 2010 in Blog, Reviews tagged with , , , ,

As a big fan of the BBC’s tradition of putting on a Ghost Story for Christmas and having been greatly impressed by Crooked House in 2008 and last year’s Turn of the Screw, it has to be said that I was awaiting their latest...

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Shane MacGowan’s Gothic London

Posted by Tom Paskins on November 23, 2010 in Blog tagged with , , , ,

With Christmas practically just around the corner, you know it isn't going to be long before you can't listen to the radio without hearing The Pogues along with the late Kirst Maccoll sing Fairytale of New York. This song in spite of its ...

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Whistle And I’ll Come To You

Posted by Tom Paskins on November 08, 2010 in Blog, News tagged with , ,

Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without a traditional Ghost story. The BBC has so far proved itself to be very good at upholding this tradition. In 2008 they gave us the superb Crooked House and last year they put on...

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Burke and Hare

Posted by Tom Paskins on November 06, 2010 in Blog, Reviews tagged with , ,

Apart from An American Werewolf in London (1981) and the two episodes of the television series Masters of Horror, entitled Deer Woman (2005) and Family (2006) the vast majority of director John Landis’s work has been outside of the Gothic canon. Here however, he makes a return to the genre...

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Steve Alten’s The Loch (2005)

Posted by Tom Paskins on September 20, 2009 in Reviews tagged with

Taking a break from Megaladon’s but still remaining firmly within the realms of crypto zoology, The Loch...