The victim count is building up, just like a dodgy sequel at the tired end of a once-great franchise. But here to save Uber Rock's 13 Days Of Halloween from the bargain bin is Frank Butchery, guitarist with the neo-legendary Scutty Neighbours. With the first mention of both killer ice cream and robotic werewolves this horrific exercise in Z-grade entertainment will titillate, will excite, will thrill, will kill. Are you brave enough to take Frank's hand as he leads you through the gates of Hell, as centuries of evil erupt from the tomb?

What are your most vivid childhood memories of Halloween?

Not as vivid as they would be if I'd grown up in suburban America. Mind you I'd probably have been stabbed to death on one of them. BBC's Ghostwatch from '92 got me the most: I was 12 and it terrified me. Michael Parkinson got possessed, and I thought it was real TV. I'd never want to see it again though, I'd feel like a right mug, I genuinely believed it was all real back then! When I got bit older Halloween was more about burning stuff and being a nob.

Why do you think that the worlds of horror and metal/punk have always been so closely linked?

Probably because your average metal snapback would feel embarrassed to admit to actually enjoying something that isn't about death, murder, zombies and death.

Last year I asked if remakes and rehashes were killing horror, now it seems to be the in-your-face turkey that is 3D - what are your thoughts on this money-grabbing gimmick that is souring cinemas and the state of current horror in general?

It was shit 20 years ago. Haven't seen any new 3D. The best thing about old 3D was that dome in Alton Towers when a great big fuck off rhino poked his horn at you. I remember seeing some terrible old horror movie in 3D with the ol' red an' blues, I think the worst (best) of it was some mad professor waving a stick with a heart on the end of it at the viewer. Complete cobblers.  2D 'til I die.

Has there been a horror remake yet that has bettered the original movie?

Most are completely different movies; Halloween, Texas Chainsaw and Last House On The Left all only really took the premise and that's why they stand up as decent horror flicks in their own right. At least no one else has tried to do a Van Sant recently. Most of the J-Horror stuff that the Americans think they need to re-do because Americans can't read subtitles (or something) are average at best.

What's the greatest ever horror movie kill?

I'm a sucker for a good old fashioned melt scene, and one of my favourites is in The Stuff. Towards the end, when the Stuff vacates 'Chocolate Chip' Charlie and he becomes a bubbling pile of alien dessert and throbbing skin is a 10/10 melter. Can't get enough of that Stuff.

Who is the baddest ever horror movie villain...and why?

If it's bad as in awful, it'd be that Leprechaun from tha Hood, yo. What load of shit. Anything starring both Warwick Davies and Ice T should have been culled at birth. If it's bad as in bad ass, It's got to be Jaws. He was a giant fish that gave away his position with a theme tune, was made out of rubber and still ate women and children without caring. Mark of a truly heroic villain. Give 'em warning, but mess 'em up anyway. In the face.

Who is the greatest ever Scream Queen?

The obvious choice is Jamie Lee Curtis, but I'm going for her mum. No one has been slashed to bits like Janet Leigh. Or Sheri Moon Zombie, gotta love a girl who is quite happy to gyrate naked next to a rotty corpse for art.

Name your Top 5 favourite horror movies of all time...and tell us why!!

Psycho - All he wants to do is dress as his dead mother, stuff birds, have a beat through his glory hole in the office, all dressed in a jumper as horrifying as the shower scene! But no those wretched city folk must ruin everything. A lot of horror films are about wretched city folk ruining perfect death set-ups... I've been to the house in LA and got a Psycho tattoo, it's a gem of a film and definitely my favourite.

House of 1000 Corpses - Such a great set of nonsense bad guys and comedy death. You can never go wrong combining a fried chicken selling killer clown and a psycho redneck with pathetic loser kids.

Evil Dead 2 - It's basically Bruce Campbell cocking about for 80 minutes. If he's not throwing himself about because his hand is out to get him, he's flying through the woods in a shopping trolley. As ridiculous as it is brilliant.

Carrie - When I had hair I was a ginger kid, and if I could fuck people up with my mind school would have been a hell of a lot more fun. It's also got the best final shock in any horror.

The Blair Witch Project - I was lucky enough to watch this on an even grainier than grainy robbed piratized VHS months before the hype started. When you have no idea about what's going on, this was a genuinely scary flick. The ending is a load of shit though.

What underrated horror movie would you recommend to our readers just in case they have never seen it?

Metal Beast - One unemployed summer I worked my way through all the decent rentals in the local vid shop and had to resort to plundering the dreaded dust ridden bottom shelf. I found this grim abortion of cinema, it's a typical government experiment gone badly wrong carry on: a dude turns in a robotic werewolf. With Terminator eyes. Utter shite - but hilarious. Seem to remember it does the classic horror movie bad guy come back about 4 or 5 times. You can't keep a good metal beast down.

What is your guilty pleasure, the trashy horror flick that you hold dear but everyone else runs away from?

Twins Of Evil, a fairly average '70s Hammer film about sexy naked vampire chicks, rubbish anti devil worshipper puritan nobheads and some evil count who is blatantly the baddie, why can't these people figure it out? The shady dude in the castle on the hill is never going to be up to any good.

What is the greatest ever horror movie poster?

I used to have the original Fright Night poster on my bedroom wall in my teens, bought from the video shop for 50p. It was cool, stupid and totally heavy metal. Obviously I've swerved that shoddy remake to the point of not even acknowledging its existence.

What 'star' of the music world would you like to see slaughtered in gory horror movie style? How and why?

Joey Belladonna. John Bush 'thrax was the best they ever were, so for ruining that his penalty is to be skinned while he sleeps with blunt spoons, then promptly lobbed into a vat of salt when he wakes up. Wake up dead, hell of a shock.

What are your plans for Halloween this year?

As it's a Monday I'll probably have a Danny Glover scene and be sat in with a mug of brew.

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[Photo kudos to Ian Cates]