Whenever I hear about a movie that had a substantial amount of hype building up around it after its debut at a genre film festival, I tend to try to push the film up in my viewing rotation so I can see what all the fuss was about. So after I heard that the film … More Movies: A Wounded Fawn (2022)
A couple of weeks back, I got an email from an author named Seann Barbour, who was offering me an ARC of his upcoming horror novella, The Last Day, which is due to be published on October 23, 2023. Naturally, I accepted, and because it was shorter than the book I was already reading, I … More Books: The Last Day by Seann Barbour
For today’s review, we’re traveling to a remote forest in Ireland for The Hallow (formerly called The Woods), which had its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The directorial debut of Corin Hardy (who would later go on to helm The Nun, the 2018 entry into the sprawling Conjuring universe), The Hallow is a … More Movies: The Hallow (2015)
2016’s The Void is a very well-regarded and largely Lovecraftian Canadian film written and directed by Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie, and largely funded through a successful Indiegogo campaign. Like a great many indie horror flicks from the past decade or so, it has a heavy 1980s influence, both in its use of delightfully splattery … More Movies: The Void (2016)
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak, a supernatural thriller released in May of 2023, seems to be one of those books that had the horror/thriller community all abuzz, and it actually won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award in the horror category, though I didn’t actually know about any of that when I randomly came across it … More Books: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
T. Kingfisher is the horror- and fantasy-specific pen name of prolific children’s book author and illustrator Ursula Vernon. I had read one of her horror novels before (The Hollow Places, from 2020) and enjoyed it quite a bit, so when a friend recommended one of her newest books to me, I was happy to give … More Books: A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
I remember hearing a a great deal about Catriona Ward’s novel The Last House on Needless Street back when it came out in autumn of 2021; there was a lot of buzz about it in the horror community, and I read that the movie rights got snapped up pretty quickly. I’m obviously a little late … More Books: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you’ll know that I love author Grady Hendrix. I’ve read and reviewed several of his works (such as Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Final Girl Support Group), but as I was browsing my local bookstore … More Books: We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
A hit at the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival, director Leigh Janiak’s impressive debut Honeymoon is, I think, best enjoyed going into it cold, as I did, because I really had no idea what was going on until near the end, which made the film a reliably harrowing experience (I‘m gonna spoil it here, … More Movies: Honeymoon (2014)
I’d seen this film three or four times previously and absolutely adore it, so it was with some surprise that I realized I had never got around to doing a proper review of it. Allow me to correct that tragic oversight forthwith. Starry Eyes premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in 2014. Written … More Movies: Starry Eyes (2014)
The Scare Salon 