1981 was another banner year for horror, and as such, I had my work cut out for me again, having to winnow the list down to five entries from the initial fifteen I picked out. If you do the math, that means there are ten (!!!) honorable mentions, which might be the most so far. … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1981
Jacques Tourneur is a name that should be well-known to serious horror fans; he’s often hailed in that community for directing a handful of the classic RKO horror pictures of the 1940s: Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man. I had seen those films previously, but for whatever reason, I had … More Movies: Night of the Demon (aka Curse of the Demon) (1957)
As you fellow horror nerds probably know, every now and then, you’re really in the mood for some pure, unadulterated, and vibrantly fragrant 1970s cheese. Being in one of those moods myself this week, I decided to toddle on over to Shudder and check out a 70s flick that I had been curious to see … More Movies: The Manitou (1978)
1979 was another hell of a year for amazing horror, giving us everything from what is easily one of the best sci-fi horror movies ever made to a bizarre and original new franchise starter; from a coldly grotesque body horror epic to a gut-munching gore masterpiece; from two stellar but very different adaptations of the … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1979
At the end of November of 2022, an author named Alan Golbourn contacted me and offered to send me a couple of his novels for review, and of course I accepted, because free books are one of my very favorite things. I regret that it’s taken me this long to get around to reading one … More Books: The 666 Murders by Alan Golbourn
Imagine, if you will, a largely forgotten, late 80s psychological horror film with sci-fi and paranormal elements that legitimately feels like a very low-budget, proto-Inception that also tries to dabble in as many different subgenres as possible, containing flavors of Altered States, Alien, From Beyond, A Nightmare on Elm Street, a haunted house tale, a … More Movies: Nightwish (1989)
Well, today’s random pairing was really nothing to write home about, but it was enjoyable enough to write a post about, so let’s get right to it. First up, 2016’s Beyond the Gates, directed by Jackson Stewart, and winner of the midnight-movie audience award at the Los Angeles Film Festival the year it came out. The … More Double Feature: Beyond the Gates and Dead Silence
New Hampshire-based author John Durgin is a very new face on the horror scene, having co-founded Livid Comics only two years ago, in 2020, and publishing a Christmas horror comic series called Jol around the same time. According to his bio, he was a huge fan of Stephen King and had long dreamed of becoming … More Books: The Cursed Among Us by John Durgin
I may have brought it up a time or two before, but I have a bit of a fascination with film adaptations of Stephen King’s works. I haven’t seen all of them by any means (considering that would probably take more time than I have remaining on Earth), but I’ve seen a decent chunk of … More Revisiting Stephen King’s Storm of the Century (1999)
Today’s double slice of horror goodness runs the gamut from scary killer clowns to…well, scary killer grandmas. I never said it was a particularly wide gamut, did I? On we go. So, back in 2010, cheeky monkey movie-writing-and-directing dudes Jon Watts and Christopher D. Ford made a fake trailer for a fake horror movie called Clown, … More Double Feature: Clown (2014) and Mercy (2014)
The Scare Salon 