With Super 8 released last week into U.K cinemas J.J Abrams talks through the surprising and not so surprising influences on his monster movie including some Spielberg masterpieces and some unexpected horrors.

We here at Love Horror love Halloween (and not just by proxy). Every year, when the Celtic festival of harvest rolls around a wicked expression of unsettling menace creeps its way across our sunken faces. It’s the one day of the year that we are allowed to indulge our obsession with everything ghoulish and ghastly, [...]