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
As you guys who have been around for a while are aware, I’ve been (very) slowly making my way through the 1960s Thriller series, hosted by Boris Karloff. Though up to now I’ve been making posts and videos discussing six episodes at a time (a tradition I started for reasons I can’t even remember now), … More Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 2, Episode 7 – “The Last of the Sommervilles”
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)
Years back, I saw a 1997 thriller called Nightwatch that starred Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, and Nick Nolte. I remembered it being pretty decent, and I also vaguely remembered that it was an English-language remake of a foreign film, so I always resolved to check out the original at some point in time. … More Movies: Nightwatch (1994)
Another random spin of the Kindle Unlimited wheel has brought me yet another wildly entertaining read, thank goodness. I’m not entirely sure why I chose Paulette Kennedy’s 2024 novel The Devil and Mrs. Davenport over all the other recommendations on offer; something about the title and the “midcentury suburbia” vibe of the cover just really … More Books: The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy
The film we’re discussing today is actually not really a horror film per se, but more like a Coen-Brothers-style crime thriller interwoven with a sweet and understated romantic comedy/drama. The end result is not quite as strange as that sounds, and even though the juxtaposition of the two genres is an audacious one, particularly for … More Movies: Uncle John (2015)
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak, a supernatural thriller released in May of 2023, seems to be one of those books that had the horror/thriller community all abuzz, and it actually won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award in the horror category, though I didn’t actually know about any of that when I randomly came across it … More Books: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Since in my last movie review, I finally got around to seeing a classic horror film from the 1950s that I had previously and shamefully been sleeping on (Night of the Demon from 1957), I decided to continue along the same lines for this installment, taking in another film from the same decade that gets … More Movies: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
English writer A.J. Wills worked as a journalist for more than a decade before becoming a full-time novelist in 2021; his was a name I’d heard before, leading me to believe I’d actually read something of his, but I guess I was mistaken because none of the titles of his novels rang a bell. But … More Books: The Warning by A.J. Wills
British director Danny Boyle first came to worldwide attention in 1996, with his breakout hit Trainspotting, a charmingly scuzzy black comedy about drug addicts, and a film that is largely credited with revitalizing the somewhat stagnant British film industry at the time, which had been mostly focused on social realism dramas and prestige period pieces. … More Movies: Shallow Grave (1994)
The Scare Salon 