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
“Thanks for calling CastOutCo, we’re steamin’ mad at demons. How can I help you?” “I’m not sure whether I should be calling or not.” Father Buck rolled his eyes, aiming another pencil at the ceiling tiles. “What seems to be the problem?” “It’s my son. I don’t know where to turn…” The woman started talking, and Buck … More Fiction: The Expulsion
I remember back in 2006 when the zombie comedy Fido first came out, I was really interested to see it. It looked like a hilarious concept, it starred the delightful Scottish comedian Billy Connolly as one of the lumbering undead, and I was still feeling residual goodwill toward the zombie comedy genre, as the classic … More Movies: Fido (2006)
Mohawked and prolific author Adam Millard has written a few dozen novels and novellas and a couple hundred short stories, but for some reason, I only just recently got down to starting to read his stuff. He normally writes in the realms of bizarro or erotic horror, but the novella I picked up to start … More Books: Larry by Adam Millard
Not too long ago, I chose Grady Hendrix’s 2016 novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism as one of my favorite horror novels of the 21st century so far, so it was with some measure of…trepidation? cautious excitement?…that I took the news that Amazon Studios was producing a film adaptation of it. I was pretty sure that … More Movies: My Best Friend’s Exorcism (2022)
As you guys might remember, I read, enjoyed, and reviewed a 2019 scifi/horror novel called Intercepts by T.J. Payne not too long ago, so when the same author’s follow-up book—The Venue: A Wedding Novel, from 2020—popped up in my Kindle Unlimited recommendations, I was immediately intrigued. The cover was stark and eye-catching, and the brief … More Books: The Venue by T.J. Payne
Duncan Birmingham, who according to his IMDB bio wrote for the Weekly World News in high school and has gone on to write for TV and direct several short films, has made his feature film debut with the 2022 Shudder original, Who Invited Them. It’s a well-paced and decent psychological thriller with a large dollop … More Movies: Who Invited Them (2022)
Although I’m usually a big fan of buying and reading print books (as my groaning, overstuffed shelves can attest), I’m also perpetually broke and unable to spend the amount of money I’d like to on them. While I resisted reading ebooks for a long time, for many still-valid reasons (I already look at a screen … More Books: Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman
Stephen Graham Jones is an author that comes up a great deal in horror circles, but I must admit that I hadn’t read any of his novels (though I’m fairly certain I’ve read some of his short stories in various anthologies at one time or another). Several people had recommended the 2020 novel The Only … More Books: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (2016) Grady Hendrix has quickly become one of my favorite authors working today, not only because of the awesome graphic design elements of his books and the fact that he wrote an amazing non-fiction coffee table book all about the horror paperback boom of the 70s and 80s, … More Five of My Favorite Horror Novels of the 21st Century (So Far)
The Scare Salon 