I first saw The Witches of Eastwick when it came out in theaters in 1987, and I absolutely loved it; something about its delightful mix of dark comedy, occult fantasy, sexy glamor, and Jack Nicholson’s unhinged scenery-chewing struck all the right notes for me, and I ended up watching the thing dozens of times subsequently … More Book vs. Movie: The Witches of Eastwick
I’m pretty sure I saw the 2000 supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath in theaters back when it came out, and I remembered liking it quite a bit. Just in the last few months, for whatever reason, I sort of got a hankering to watch it again, and though it moved around on various streaming services … More Movies: What Lies Beneath (2000)
Time once again to dive back into Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, and this time around, we’re discussing season 2, episode 10, “The Closed Cabinet.” Based on an anonymous short story that was published in Weird Tales in May 1923 (and may have been floating around for a while before that), the episode was adapted … More Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 2, Episode 10 – “The Closed Cabinet”
Liminal horror really seems to be having a moment, especially with the roaring success of Backrooms (which I still haven’t seen as of this writing; don’t fret, I’ll get around to it), and I started to notice that several discussions of other liminal titles inevitably ended up mentioning the Japanese psychological horror film Exit 8, … More Movies: Exit 8 (2025)
Next up on the Night Gallery docket is season 2, episode 16, another one that consisted of three stories. This time around, all of them were at least decent, even the more comedically-inclined tale in the middle, though I admit they were all a bit slow-moving. The first story, and the best of the bunch … More Revisiting Night Gallery: Season 2, Episode 16 – “Lindemann’s Catch/The Late Mr. Peddington/A Feast of Blood”
Sometimes you get in the mood for some good old-fashioned 1970s horror weirdness, and as you’ve probably surmised, I recently got into one of those exact moods. Earlier in the evening I had done a rewatch of the underrated 1978 haunted house flick The Evil (which we reviewed ages ago), and after it was over, … More Movies: The Pyx (1973)
I’m a big fan of Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy’s first two films (2020’s Caveat and 2024’s Oddity, which I reviewed here and here), so you knew it would only be a matter of time before I (finally) got around to seeing his latest work, the 2026 supernatural folk horror movie Hokum. Just as in his … More Movies: Hokum (2026)
Way back in the neon-colored mists of 1986, I was nothing but a fourteen-year-old weirdo navigating her unsteady way through eighth and ninth grades. Amid all the hairspray and hormonal meltdowns, though, a few choice horror movies managed to rise above the angsty fray, and I’ll talk about them momentarily. But first, as usual, aside … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1986
I’ve talked about a couple of excellent films by Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos before (such as my discussion of The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and my discussion of Poor Things), so when I first saw the trailer for his 2025 movie Bugonia ages ago, I was definitely interested; Lanthimos’s movies are always weird as … More Movies: Bugonia (2025)
Pennsylvania-based author Alex Grass recently contacted me and generously offered to send me an honest-to-goodness print version of his latest work for review, a short story anthology of weird fiction titled Infernal Tramps. This appears to be Alex’s fifth book, and was published very recently, in mid-July of 2026. Comprised of tales of varying lengths … More Books: Infernal Tramps by Alex Grass
