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Continuing Down the Xmas Hole – Christmas Horror Part II
Ok – that title just seems dirty, but in the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working through a number of Christmas horrors, new and old, that I hadn’t seen yet, seeing (to paraphrase Morpheus) “how...
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Top Ten New To Me in 23
I’m about two and a half years into this blogsperiment? Blogventure? Bloject? (Ugh – I think these are just getting worse and were never necessary to begin with) And in that time, I’ve had good runs...
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Three Universal Draculas
Is there a character in the horror landscape that looms as large as Dracula? My whole life, from long before I was at all into horror, I’ve known him. Simple plastic Halloween masks, Scooby Doo...
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A Sleazy, Sweaty, Brutal Masterpiece – Maniac (1980)
I like a bit of variety on this here blog, and after last post’s discussion of three classy, classic Dracula films, I thought it would be good to go in a completely different direction and take on...
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Argento’s Animal Trilogy
I’ve been wanting to do this post for a long time – I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to finally make it happen. Dario Argento played a significant role in my early forays into the genre. I...
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Sometimes They Return: Cemetery Man
Certain films make such a strong impression that even if you love them, you are rarely drawn to re-watch. It just seems better to sit with the first feeling they gave you – you don’t want a subsequent...
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Permeable Bodies and Minds in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser
I’ve previously made mention of how Clive Barker played a key role in bringing me into the horror genre. Though I’d always loved Halloween, monsters, and the gothic, I really wasn’t a horror kid. I...
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Brandon Cronenberg: flesh, mind, and loss of self in Antiviral, Possessor,...
I don’t know why I haven’t watched any of the films of Brandon Cronenberg yet. When I was first really getting into horror as a genre, his dad, David Cronenberg, was my absolute favorite director,...
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Catching up with the Angel of Indian Lake
I was on a roll there – I’d gotten two posts up in two weeks and I knew that a book I wanted to write about would be delivered soon – The Angel of Indian Lake, the third and final entry in Stephen...
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Accidentally backing into positive messaging: Sleepaway Camp
So it was June, “pride month,” (or at least it was when I sat down to start this post weeks ago – this is certainly coming late, but things last forever on the internet, so whenever you read this,...
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The Lost Boys – eternal youth, actually youthful
I have been a bit indulgent this summer – not publishing nearly as much as I’d ordinarily like, and not exactly challenging myself with particularly heady, analytical projects. Rather, it is summer,...
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The American Nightmare: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Turns 50
Golly – where do I even start with this? When approaching a film this big, this significant, it can be daunting. Books have been written about it – it has been discussed ad nauseam by academics and...
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La Folie Halloween Show 2024 and a Recent Film Roundup
As a horror blogger, I have long read other horror blogs and I think one of the most common sentences has to be “sorry I haven’t posted in a while,” or at least I like to think it’s that common cause,...
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Friends to the End: Running the Chucky Franchise
I mentioned last year when doing my annual “Top 10 New To Me” post that I had absolutely fallen in love with the Chucky TV series – I hadn’t had access to it yet and when it showed up on Shudder, I was...
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