I’m a big fan of Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy’s first two films (2020’s Caveat and 2024’s Oddity, which I reviewed here and here), so you knew it would only be a matter of time before I (finally) got around to seeing his latest work, the 2026 supernatural folk horror movie Hokum. Just as in his … More Movies: Hokum (2026)
Regular readers of this blog will likely remember the name of British author Alan Golbourn, as I’ve reviewed three of his previous books (after he was kind enough to send them to me): The 666 Murders, The Cult From Beyond, and The Last Breath Before Death. Recently, Alan contacted me again and offered an ARC … More Books: From Under the Stairs by Alan Golbourn
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
Well, it’s the most wonderful time of the year (October!), so I figured I’d better start focusing on some more Halloween-specific media in the lead-up to the big day (although naturally, speaking as a longtime goth/horror nerd, Halloween is and will always be all year long). I honestly felt like I’d covered most of the … More Movies: Dark Harvest (2023)
Returning to my newer international horror movie kick for this review, I decided to take a look at a film that had piqued my interest when I saw it pop up on Shudder a little while back. I hadn’t pulled the trigger on it immediately, but it so happened that a few days later, a … More Movies: The Devil’s Bath (2024)
I figured it had been a while since I did a good old-fashioned book-to-movie comparison, and it so happened that the subject came up somewhat fortuitously, as I noticed that Adam Nevill’s 2011 folk horror novel The Ritual had become available to read for free on Kindle Unlimited. I had seen the movie years ago … More Book vs Movie: The Ritual
Gerald Brom, who is professionally known just by his last name, is an insanely talented artist and writer who I was peripherally aware of just by virtue of seeing his beautiful book covers here and there while browsing around in bookstores. He started as a commercial illustrator and later went on to do artwork for … More Books: Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
In the run-up to Halloween of 2023, Amazon released a series of six stand-alone short stories/novellas under the name Creature Feature Collection, by six popular horror authors, including Grady Hendrix, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Jason Mott, Chandler Baker, and the subject of this review, Joe Hill. All six of the stories are available to read … More Books: The Pram by Joe Hill
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)
On the second installment of this potentially very long-running series (the first installment is here), I’m discussing 1973, which was an absolutely cracking year for iconic horror movies. There was a treasure trove of amazing stuff to choose from, but honestly, my five favorite ones were a no-brainer, and took me literally less than two … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1973
The Scare Salon 