A lot of rock stars have a taste for the theatrical, but there is that further subdivision of musician that seems to exude a quality that’s just that little bit creepy. You know, like Alice Cooper’s whole mock-horror look? Well, we took that idea to its extreme, asking our writers to imagine their favourite music-makers and singers as the ghoulish stars of cinematic horror films. The results vary from the fiendishly humorous, to the scarily accurate. Grab some popcorn, things are about to get horribly creative… and creatively horrible.

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