Like last year, I wanted to do a wrap-up ranking my favorite horror movies of the year just past. Unlike last year, I didn’t have as much time to see quite as many new horror films as I would have liked, though I still managed to get my list to twenty films that I really … More My Twenty Favorite Horror Films of 2025
I know I haven’t been posting on here much lately, but that’s mostly because I’ve been busy with work, and also because I’ve been trying to take in as many 2025 horror flicks as possible with a view to doing another massive, year-end top twenty like I did for 2024. But as the holidays are … More Movies: The Sacrifice Game (2023)
Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou burst onto the horror scene back in 2022 with their excessively hyped (and admittedly pretty excellent) supernatural horror film Talk To Me, which had the community abuzz and seemingly heralded the arrival of some notable new talent in the horror genre. I actually really liked Talk To Me, though … More Movies: Bring Her Back (2025)
I had noticed the strikingly awesome cover for the 2021 novel This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno many times while scrolling through my Kindle, and I figured I’d get around to it eventually because the premise sounded pretty interesting. But then it so happened that I was on a subreddit the other day where … More Books: This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
Spanish filmmaker Amando de Ossorio is best remembered today for his cult classic Blind Dead movies (Tombs of the Blind Dead from 1971, Return of the Blind Dead from 1973, The Ghost Galleon from 1974, and Night of the Seagulls from 1975). Of those, I’ve only covered the first so far, but recently, a friend … More Movies: Demon Witch Child (1975)
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)
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)
A longtime friend of the 13 O’Clock Podcast, Oracle of the Mundane, often recommends books for me to check out, and she’s never steered me wrong yet. Just recently, she was kind enough to buy me an ebook of Barbara Hambly’s 1994 supernatural fantasy Bride of the Rat God, which immediately intrigued me with that … More Books: Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly
Even though I’m absolutely not religious in any way, shape, or form, I’ve always found something very appealing about the religious horror films of the 60s and 70s, particularly classics like Rosemary’s Baby, The Devils, The Exorcist, and The Omen. One movie along those lines that doesn’t get brought up nearly as much, though, is … More Book vs Movie: The Sentinel
The Scare Salon 