Posted on December 19, 2019
Good News/Bad News
I don’t post reviews on this site so much as my thoughts about genre experiences. And while I feel perfectly justified in posting negative thoughts about movies and television shows, I rarely post anything negative about books because… Read More
Posted on April 25, 2019
Under The Skin
Art films bore me. Not artistic films like Barry Lyndon or 2001: A Space Odyssey or A Clockwork Orange (wait, those are all… whatever), but self important film school senior projects with long, long, overlong takes and a… Read More
Posted on October 1, 2018
A Good List
It’s rare that I look over a list and agree with every entry save one (I would have given it to Slither over The Host). Check this out: The Horror Movie Academy Awards
Posted on September 27, 2018
Escapism Is Not A Bad Word
As someone who suffers from bouts of deep depression and spent years on anti-depressants, I can testify to the healing power of distraction. I remember being in high school, suffering from the usual teen insecurity with a dark… Read More
Posted on September 26, 2018
Castle Rock
When I heard this new series wasn’t written by Stephen King or based on one of his stories but was rather a tribute to his work, I was really worried. Remember when they turned Lawnmower Man into an… Read More
Posted on September 24, 2018
Since everyone else is jumping off a bridge…
I, too, shall rank the Castle Rock books. Spoilers and another dumb list follow after the jump.
Posted on September 23, 2018
Horror In Four Flavors
In the pre-Blockbuster days we had to take our horror movies as we found them. They really weren’t putting horror films into wide release so our options were limited to TV, usually on that fourth channel, the UHF… Read More
Posted on September 22, 2018
Horror In The Modern Age
Stephen King made the point in The Danse Macabre that horror seems to flourish during horrible times. Universal’s monsters exploded onto the screen during the Great Depression and big bug movies made a splash during the offing of… Read More
Posted on September 21, 2018
Horror Vs. Adventure
How do you know if you’re in a horror movie or an adventure film? Are you Ripley or are you Indy? Or, for that matter, are you the first Ripley or the second? After the jump, some easy… Read More
Posted on September 20, 2018
A List! A List!
I’m in a horror mood lately, probably because of Castle Rock, so I’m going to make a list of my favorite horror movies ranked by how scary they were to me at the time I saw them (in… Read More