I have to admit that the title of this one piqued my interest right away, and that amazing cover design is just so simple and impactful that I literally could not resist it. I’m speaking, of course, of the 2024 novel The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim, a psychological/body horror story about … More Books: The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
The film Presence debuted at Sundance early in 2024 and got a theatrical release in January of 2025 from Neon. I had heard of it only peripherally, but a listener recommended it to me recently; it wasn’t playing at the theater anymore but was available to rent for ten bucks on Amazon Prime, so I … More Movies: Presence (2024)
Paul Tremblay is a name that should be familiar to most horror fans; he was responsible for the beloved 2015 novel A Head Full of Ghosts, which won a Bram Stoker Award that year, and his 2018 book The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the 2023 film Knock at the … More Books: Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
I remember seeing the trailer for 2024’s Blink Twice ages ago while I was at the theater for another horror film. At the time, I thought it looked decent but didn’t feel any burning urge to watch it. I suppose this is mostly because, as far as horror movies go, I tend to like more … More Movies: Blink Twice (2024)
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)
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
The Scare Salon 