Lovecraft adaptations tend to be all over the place, quality-wise, with the gold standard arguably being Stuart Gordon’s 1985 Re-Animator and its follow-up, 1986’s From Beyond. So when the writer of both those films, Dennis Paoli, contributed a screenplay for the 2023 film Suitable Flesh—a loose adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1937 short story, “The Thing … More Movies: Suitable Flesh (2023)
When we last discussed the Boris Karloff-hosted series Thriller, we had finished up all 37 episodes of season one, so now it’s time to plunge right into the second (and final) season. On we go! Episode 1: “What Beckoning Ghost?” The first episode of season two is admittedly something of a letdown from the excellent … More Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 2, Episodes 1-6
A while ago, I read (and loved, and glowingly reviewed) a 2016 murder mystery called Magpie Murders by prolific British author Anthony Horowitz. I mentioned in that review that there was actually a “sequel” of sorts to that novel, which came out in 2020 and which I was really interested in reading. Jump ahead to … More Books: Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Scare Salon 