Writer and filmmaker James M. Watjen is based in Indiana, and cites as his influences the works of Stephen King, George Romero, and William Lustig. James actually reached out to me a while back and offered me an ebook of his 2024 novella The Vermin Sleep, published by Nightmare Press, so naturally I agreed to … More Books: The Vermin Sleep by James M. Watjen
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)
Since I was still in a thriller kinda mood after enjoying The Haunting of Whitehall Manor a couple of weeks back, I decided to spin that Kindle Unlimited roulette wheel once again, and this time it came up with a 2023 novel called Don’t Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders. The book was getting quite … More Books: Don’t Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders
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
Director Alex Garland was back on my mind recently as I went to the theater to see his latest film Civil War (which we discussed at length here). I remembered how much I had loved his previous films Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), not to mention the fact that he had written the screenplay … More Movies: Men (2022)
The 2022 novella This is Where We Talk Things Out was my first experience reading Canadian author Caitlin Marceau, and it definitely won’t be the last, because this was a gripping, fast-paced story that I blazed through in less than two hours. I’ve seen it compared to Stephen King’s Misery (due to the “trapped in … More Books: This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau
Starting a couple of weeks back, I was hearing a lot of people in the horror community suddenly talking up the 2022 Spanish film The Coffee Table (aka La mesita del comedor), which according to many reviewers is one of the most traumatizing films to come out in recent years. Because of all the buzz … More Movies: The Coffee Table (2022)
The Scare Salon 