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
Spanish filmmaker Amando de Ossorio is best remembered today for his cult classic Blind Dead movies (Tombs of the Blind Dead from 1971, Return of the Blind Dead from 1973, The Ghost Galleon from 1974, and Night of the Seagulls from 1975). Of those, I’ve only covered the first so far, but recently, a friend … More Movies: Demon Witch Child (1975)
The 2023 English/German horror film Baghead (not to be confused with the 2008 horror comedy of the same name directed by the Duplass Brothers) dropped on Shudder in April of 2024, and there seemed to be a bit of buzz around it, so I was curious to give it a look. I will say right … More Movies: Baghead (2023)
In 1968, Michael Reeves’s historical folk horror film Witchfinder General (which Tom and I reviewed here) hit theaters in its native Britain. Starring the always incredible Vincent Price and renamed The Conqueror Worm for American audiences, the film took the real-life figure of English witchfinder Matthew Hopkins and spun a lurid tale of torture and … More Movies: Mark of the Devil (1970)
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
T. Kingfisher is the horror- and fantasy-specific pen name of prolific children’s book author and illustrator Ursula Vernon. I had read one of her horror novels before (The Hollow Places, from 2020) and enjoyed it quite a bit, so when a friend recommended one of her newest books to me, I was happy to give … More Books: A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
I feel as though choosing books at random like I do ends up netting me a higher-than-average percentage of novels by British authors, and I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe British writers are just better at coming up with titles and concepts that intrigue me, or at least are more capable of targeting … More Books: Sallow Bend by Alan Baxter
At the end of November of 2022, an author named Alan Golbourn contacted me and offered to send me a couple of his novels for review, and of course I accepted, because free books are one of my very favorite things. I regret that it’s taken me this long to get around to reading one … More Books: The 666 Murders by Alan Golbourn
Not too long ago, when I did a post and video about Disney’s 1980s “Dark Phase” and talked particularly about the 1980 film The Watcher in the Woods, I happened to mention that the movie in this specific cycle and era that actually got the most discussion for being straight-up nightmare fuel for 80s kids … More More Dark Disney: Revisiting Return To Oz (1985)
The Scare Salon 