Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 2, Episode 8 – “Letter to a Lover”

February 4, 2025

It’s time to dive back into Boris Karloff’s Thriller. This time, we’ll discuss season two, episode eight, “Letter to a Lover.” This installment was directed by Herschel Daugherty and based on a stage play by Sheridan Gibney. I don’t know anything about the original play but the episode itself seems to suffer from a somewhat … More Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 2, Episode 8 – “Letter to a Lover”

Movies: Pin (1988)

January 21, 2025

Over the years, I’d often see the 1988 film Pin turning up on a lot of “underrated horror movies” lists, and even though I could have sworn I saw it at some point, watching it for this review confirmed that I actually had not. Honestly, I’m sorry I waited so long; I really should have … More Movies: Pin (1988)

Movies: Caveat (2020)

January 12, 2025

Just a couple weeks back, I chose Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy’s second feature film, the supernatural murder mystery Oddity, as one of my top five horror movies of 2024. In that review, I mentioned that since I loved Oddity so much, I was curious to see McCarthy’s 2020 debut Caveat (which is currently streaming on … More Movies: Caveat (2020)

Revisiting A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971-1978)

December 24, 2024

Between 1971 and 1978, the BBC had a delightful tradition of broadcasting a short film based on a classic ghost story every year around Christmas. The original annual run of the series consisted of eight episodes, five of which were based on stories by M.R. James, seven of which were directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, … More Revisiting A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971-1978)

Movies: Hosts (2020)

December 22, 2024

Just when you think you’ve seen (and reviewed) all the good Christmas horror movies, a nasty little indie shocker scuttles under the radar to show you how wrong you were. I had seen the thumbnail for the 2020 British film Hosts several times while scrolling the horror selections on Tubi, but neither the image nor … More Movies: Hosts (2020)

Books: The Sleigh by Max Hawthorne

December 15, 2024

Brooklyn-born Max Hawthorne is an author (and screenwriter, and songwriter, and cryptid researcher) that I hadn’t heard of before, but he’s known in sci-fi circles as the Prince of Paleo-fiction, largely due to his bestselling Kronos series, which involves massive prehistoric sea monsters. His 2022 novel The Sleigh, though, was something a bit different, still … More Books: The Sleigh by Max Hawthorne