Guest Blogging for Women in Horror Month
Feb 23Wrote an essay on two of my favorite short stories from female authors for Women in Horror month. It’s been posted on the blog of Damien Walters Grintalis, a female horror author whose debut novel Ink is set to be released in December 2012. Thanks again to Damien for allowing me to ramble on her...
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Trailer Looks Better Than it Has Any Right To…
Feb 14
I’ve never read the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Nor have I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or A Tale of Two Cities and Innsmouth, or Gone With the Deadites. I shouldn’t make assumptions about works I’ve never read, I know, but I’ve always been skeptical about the entertainment merit of stories that seem to randomly marry literary characters / historical...
The Woman in Black: Then vs. Now
Feb 12
Disclaimer: This post is full of spoilers. Read on at your own risk. The latest version of the Susan Hill novel The Woman in Black arrived in theaters a week ago and made a solid impression at the box office. By no means is it a great film, in fact it might be too generous to even call it “good,” but it’s a solid effort at Gothic, haunted house horror. As a fan of the earlier,...
Good and Terrible: 8 Movies Featuring Exorcisms
Aug 30
In a blatant, shameless attempt to garner more hits, I’m making a topical post referencing the recently released film The Last Exorcism. And so I present to you an entirely subjective list of 4 good (and 4 terrible) movies featuring exorcisms. Exorcisms would seem to be a pretty popular topic in the horror genre, and yet it’s not explored as frequently as other common horror...
The Last of the Saw Flicks? Dare I Dream…?
Jul 23
Quick, somebody give me a top to spin so I can verify that this is reality! Even though it’s likely a lie, much like Friday the 13th’s blatantly false “Final Chapter,” the new teaser trailer for SAW 3D declares that this is the “Final Saw.” I won’t link to the teaser because f*** this movie and all of its predecessors, save the first one which was...
The Worlds Between Words – Devil in a Blue Dress
Jun 27
I recently finished Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley’s excellent hard-boiled mystery novel. Within the first third of the book there was a line that struck me like a solid swing of baseball bat to the abdomen. Mosley’s lead, World War II veteran Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, describes the fear that seized him during his introduction to combat. “The first time I fought...
