Even though 2024 is now over and I’ve already picked my twenty favorite movies of the year just passed, I’m still mopping up some lingering 2024 horror that I missed. And inevitably, I ended up watching one that definitely would have been on the aforementioned favorite movies list if I’d seen it earlier. Oh well. … More Movies: Daddy’s Head (2024)
I normally don’t do this year-end ranking thing, for a couple of reasons. One, I’m too lazy and/or too busy, and two, I usually don’t see enough new horror movies in any given year to justify making a list like this. But 2024 was a shockingly kick-ass year for horror, and I ended up seeing … More My Twenty Favorite Horror Films of 2024
Prequels are a tricky business at the best of times; even a good one runs the risk of succumbing to pointlessness (as large segments of the audience will have already seen what happens after this story, so there won’t be any surprises in store), and lazy fan service (hey, here’s how this beloved character got … More Movies: The First Omen (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)
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
German filmmaker Tilman Singer is a relative newcomer on the scene, previously responsible for two short films (in 2014 and 2016), and the 2018 full-length film Luz (which I saw a while ago and liked okay; we did a review of it here). His latest movie, though, 2024’s Cuckoo, has quietly been turning up on … More Movies: Cuckoo (2024)
Since it’s getting to be about that time of year, I figured I should get into the holiday spirit by reading some Christmas-themed horror. And quite at random, I came across a spooky-sounding 2023 novel called Alice: A Christmas Ghost Story by prolific British author Shani Struthers. Just what Santa ordered! Much like classic holiday … More Books: Alice: A Christmas Ghost Story by Shani Struthers
Writer/producer/director E.L. Katz has been responsible for some really good shit, including the excellent 2013 film Cheap Thrills, one episode of Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, and probably my favorite season of SyFy’s Channel Zero series, entitled “The Dream Door.” So when I heard that he’d made a sort of post-apocalyptic action horror starring … More Movies: Azrael (2024)
British author Alan Golbourn will be no stranger to regular readers of this site, as I previously reviewed two of his other novels, 2022’s The 666 Murders, and its 2023 follow-up, The Cult From Beyond. Alan recently contacted me again and asked if I’d have a look at his latest novel (his fourth), a vampire … More Books: The Last Breath Before Death by Alan Golbourn
I may have mentioned it before, but 2024 has been a hell of a year for horror movies (despite its shittiness in other aspects), and for that reason, I’ve been more keen than usual to keep up with all the buzzy films that have been coming out. I’m even considering doing a year-end “best-of” post … More Movies: Strange Darling (2023)
The Scare Salon 