For good or ill, we cannot blame Stephen King’s SLEEPWALKERS on cocaine. As seductive and reasonable as it seems that the Mick Garris film, with screenplay by King — with its vampiric incest, death by… Read More »No Vegetables, No Dessert – SLEEPWALKERS (1992)
According to legend (and by “legend” I mean various interviews, Bitter Karella conceived of MOONFLOW during a poorly planned trip to Lassen National Park. Setting out too late, Karella and company ended up wandering the… Read More »Terror and Transformation: Bitter Karella’s MOONFLOW
“When you think about Evil Dead, you have to know that you’re going to be introducing the Evil Dead universe to a new audience who have no idea what it is, so I thought you… Read More »No Heaven: Evil Dead (2013) at 13
Every once in a while a debut novel comes along where you’re not only excited about how good it is, but you’re excited for the next one. Mae Murray’s I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU… Read More »I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU (Mae Murray, 2024)
When people mention Bram Stoker’s Dracula, two things are likely to come up: Keanu Reeves’ accent, and that the movie was a critical and commercial dud. We’ll get to the accent thing a little later,… Read More »“An Exercise in Feverish Excess”: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
The end of December, when a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of end-of-year roundups of things. 2022 has been a great year for horror in general, but also for me personally. Late in 2021,… Read More »My Favorite Horror Books of 2022
There are two things horror writer Hailey Piper is particularly good at: building a world with such a steady, quiet pace you barely realize it’s happening, and scaling up the horror from the personal to the cosmic… Read More »QUEEN OF TEETH (Hailey Piper, 2021)
