Some time ago, I discussed Ti West’s 2022 retro, porno-tinged slasher X, which I absolutely adored. What many people didn’t know at the time that film came out, however, was that West had co-written a script (with Mia Goth) for a prequel to X as he was working on that film, and even began production … More Movies: Pearl (2022)
I was in the mood recently for a good old-fashioned gothic horror story, and lo and behold, my Kindle Unlimited recommendations seemed to read my mind once again, offering for my literary pleasure the gothic novel The Haunting of Whitehall Manor by L.V. Pires. I had never read anything by this author before, but she’s … More Books: The Haunting of Whitehall Manor by L.V. Pires
Years back, I saw a 1997 thriller called Nightwatch that starred Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, and Nick Nolte. I remembered it being pretty decent, and I also vaguely remembered that it was an English-language remake of a foreign film, so I always resolved to check out the original at some point in time. … More Movies: Nightwatch (1994)
LM Kaplin is a writer from upstate New York, and the 2024 book I’m discussing today, Mine: A Psychological Horror, appears to be his first full-length novel (prior to this, he had a short story in an anthology called Screams from the Ocean Floor, and published a collection of his own vampire short stories called … More Books: Mine: A Psychological Horror by LM Kaplin
Director Alex Garland was back on my mind recently as I went to the theater to see his latest film Civil War (which we discussed at length here). I remembered how much I had loved his previous films Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), not to mention the fact that he had written the screenplay … More Movies: Men (2022)
The 2023 English/German horror film Baghead (not to be confused with the 2008 horror comedy of the same name directed by the Duplass Brothers) dropped on Shudder in April of 2024, and there seemed to be a bit of buzz around it, so I was curious to give it a look. I will say right … More Movies: Baghead (2023)
The 2022 novella This is Where We Talk Things Out was my first experience reading Canadian author Caitlin Marceau, and it definitely won’t be the last, because this was a gripping, fast-paced story that I blazed through in less than two hours. I’ve seen it compared to Stephen King’s Misery (due to the “trapped in … More Books: This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau
Starting a couple of weeks back, I was hearing a lot of people in the horror community suddenly talking up the 2022 Spanish film The Coffee Table (aka La mesita del comedor), which according to many reviewers is one of the most traumatizing films to come out in recent years. Because of all the buzz … More Movies: The Coffee Table (2022)
A while back, I reviewed a 2014 novel called Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie, which I thought was phenomenal. So when his 2023 book Episode Thirteen popped up in my Kindle Unlimited recommendations, I thought I’d have a gander at it, as the cover and one-sentence synopsis looked interesting. Episode Thirteen has been called … More Books: Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
I was eleven years old in 1983 and had just started getting more seriously into horror (as well as beginning my lifelong obsession with new wave, goth, and post-punk music, so I was all off into the whole dark fantasia that would characterize my life up until the present day). I had seen and read … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1983
The Scare Salon 