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)
Ben Young is a horror writer based out of Cincinnati, Ohio and the novel of his I chose from my Kindle Unlimited suggestions was called Home. It was published in March of 2024, and as far as I could determine, is his second book (the first was called Stuck and came out in September of … More Books: Home by Ben Young
During one of 13 O’Clock’s fun, infamous, drunken Friday night Sidetracks livestreams, a listener in the chat recommended a new horror film that had recently dropped on Shudder: the 2024 Irish supernatural murder mystery Oddity. There was a lot of buzz about this film when it debuted at South by Southwest in March; it even … More Movies: Oddity (2024)
Yet another film I had seen a lot of buzz about before noticing it pop up on Shudder recently was the 2023 creature feature Infested. It’s a French film, initially released under the title Vermines, and is the full-length directorial debut of Sébastien Vaniček. The movie got overwhelmingly positive reviews and was financially successful during … More Movies: Infested (aka Vermines) (2023)
I figured it had been a minute since I’d gone delving into Shudder’s newer international fare, so I took a quick look around the internet for some recommendations on the best films currently available on the platform. And pretty universally at the top of many horror sites’ lists was the 2024 South Korean supernatural folk … More Movies: Exhuma (2024)
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent burst onto the horror landscape back in 2014 with her outstandingly creepy and well-received metaphorical horror film The Babadook (which I reviewed here), so when it came time for her sophomore effort to hit theaters, the community was abuzz, wondering what spooky delights she would come up with this time around. … More Movies: The Nightingale (2018)
There was a bit of a convoluted path to how I ended up watching the 2022 thriller Resurrection. Just a bit ago, I watched and reviewed Ti West’s excellent 2023 film Pearl, and afterward, I was watching some YouTube videos from my favorite horror channels about the movie to get some more perspectives on it. … More Movies: Resurrection (2022)
Some time ago, I discussed Ti West’s 2022 retro, porno-tinged slasher X, which I absolutely adored. What many people didn’t know at the time that film came out, however, was that West had co-written a script (with Mia Goth) for a prequel to X as he was working on that film, and even began production … More Movies: Pearl (2022)
I was in the mood recently for a good old-fashioned gothic horror story, and lo and behold, my Kindle Unlimited recommendations seemed to read my mind once again, offering for my literary pleasure the gothic novel The Haunting of Whitehall Manor by L.V. Pires. I had never read anything by this author before, but she’s … More Books: The Haunting of Whitehall Manor by L.V. Pires
LM Kaplin is a writer from upstate New York, and the 2024 book I’m discussing today, Mine: A Psychological Horror, appears to be his first full-length novel (prior to this, he had a short story in an anthology called Screams from the Ocean Floor, and published a collection of his own vampire short stories called … More Books: Mine: A Psychological Horror by LM Kaplin
The Scare Salon 