Initially slated to premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival (which was cancelled due to COVID), Jonathan Cuartas’s feature-length debut My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To was instead picked up by Dark Sky Films, and in the autumn of that year appeared on several streaming services simultaneously, including Shudder, Amazon Prime, and … More Movies: My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (2020)
Pennsylvania-based author and poet Oliver C. Seneca recently contacted me by email and offered to send along an ebook of his latest novel, Faces in a Window, for me to review. Of course I agreed, because hey, who am I to turn down free horror books? Faces in a Window, published by Sunbury Press in … More Books: Faces in a Window by Oliver C. Seneca
I saw Bug back when it was released in theaters in 2007 (it had actually made its debut in spring of 2006 at Cannes), and it really knocked my socks off, so for a long time I had been wanting to revisit it for my movie review series, and lo and behold, I finally got … More Movies: Bug (2006)
Two decades ago, back in the distant mists of 2002 (damn, I’m getting old), director Mick Garris organized what has to be one of the most epic horror dinner parties of all time at a restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California. In attendance were such genre stalwarts as John Carpenter, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Stuart … More Revisiting Masters of Horror (2006/2007)
The book I’m discussing today was one that I was seeing everywhere when the hardback first came out in the summer of 2020; it appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, and a bunch of horror book reviewers I follow, as well as pretty much all the “mainstream” book reviewing channels, were covering it. … More Books: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
As you guys might remember, I read, enjoyed, and reviewed a 2019 scifi/horror novel called Intercepts by T.J. Payne not too long ago, so when the same author’s follow-up book—The Venue: A Wedding Novel, from 2020—popped up in my Kindle Unlimited recommendations, I was immediately intrigued. The cover was stark and eye-catching, and the brief … More Books: The Venue by T.J. Payne
The haunted house subgenre, as I believe I’ve mentioned before, is usually my favorite type of horror to read, and although I love a good classic haunted house tale, I also like when an author tries to do something of a fresh take on it. J.W. Ocker’s 2019 novel Twelve Nights at Rotter House is … More Books: Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W. Ocker
As should be apparent from some of my other posts and videos, I’m a big fan of slow-burn, psychological horror, so when I started hearing that this particular film—which premiered at Sundance in January of this year and drew a bit of buzz—had arrived on Shudder, I brewed myself a cup of peppermint tea and … More Movies: Watcher (2022)
I can’t remember exactly where I first heard of A Cure for Wellness; I didn’t see it back in 2016 when it hit theaters, and for whatever reason it flew under my radar for several years afterward. But then, over the past eighteen months or so, it seems like I kept spotting discussions of it … More Movies: A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Back in 2020, it seemed like Samantha Kolesnik’s debut novella True Crime was everywhere; it got a massive amount of buzz in the horror community, and even though I successfully avoided any synopses or reviews of it prior to reading it for myself, it was hard to miss seeing its (awesome) cover popping up in … More Books: True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik
The Scare Salon 