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The Cradle Of filTh and devilmenT vOCalisT On his genre favOuriTes...

First SF/fantasy film you saw

On Thursday nights BBC Two used to run a sci-fi or monster movie. I think the one that really stuck with me was Alien. Especially the chestburster scene with John Hurt. That’s a shocking moment as a youth.

Favourite SF/fantasy film

Everybody says Star Wars but it’s brilliant. It’s the whole reminiscing about when you discovered it and buying toys. Growing up, it was just everywhere. I used to get annuals for Christmas and they’d have all these weird and wonderful stories involving Princess Leia and Darth Vader meeting on planets and you’d go: “They’re enemies!” Because you never knew anything anything about politics back then. You didn’t realise there were Switzerlands in space.

Favourite SF/fantasy comic

I used to be really into 2000 AD. Judge Dredd, Judge Anderson – being psychic, she used to fight the Dark Judges. The last movie, Dredd, was awesome and I read somewhere that they’re going to expand on the Judge Anderson/Judge Dredd thing and bring in the Dark Judges [in a sequel]. That’d be incredible.

SF/fantasy guilty pleasure

Blake’s 7. I rewatched a few episodes recently and suddenly realised how bloody awful it was. It was probably great when you were young. Buck Rogers I used to love, too, if not just for Wilma Deering. Everybody grew up on stuff like that, but when you revisit it it looks really shabby.

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