Month: June 2018

If you’ve watched the classic drive-in masterpiece THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK, you’re going to recognize the name Crabtree. Julius E. “Smokey” Crabtree was just a regular small town dude until he was hired by writer-director Charles B. Pierce to serve as a consultant and guide for the filming of the movie. Smokey and his…

I agree with that guy from CABIN IN THE WOODS, who wanted to see the merman but was sadly disappointed (until he wasn’t). I think we need more mer-people in Horror as a whole. Yeah, either that or I’m still a toddler in my cerebral development and I can be distracted by shiny things. This…

I guess I should be asking, DID you watch Monster Week, since by the time you are reading this it is likely that Monster Week will be at least partially over. What exactly is “Monster Week”? It’s Animal Planet’s version of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, a week of monster and cryptid-related programming airing on that…

It’s official. Funko is certifiably the coolest company in existence. Perhaps the coolest company in the history of the human race. It’s even conceivable that it is the coolest company since the Big Bang occurred, creating the Universe some 14 billion years ago. Yes, Funko is THAT cool. Don’t believe me? Need some evidence? Ask…

This is gonna be one of those incidents where we have to wait for the DNA evidence to come in, and when it does we’re probably all gonna be disappointed. But the animal shot and killed by a rancher in Montana recently sure LOOKS weird. It doesn’t look like a wolf. It doesn’t look like…

I love me a good Bigfoot movie, and there have been some great ones. ABOMINABLE, WILLOW CREEK, EXISTS, and the granddaddy of them all, THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK. Will BIG LEGEND, due out this summer, take its place among them? Check out the trailer here, courtesy of the fine folks over at Bloody Disgusting,…

It’s a rare feat for any work of Art to manage to be two things at once. DEAD INDIAN WARS by Clark Casey, just like its predecessor, DAWN IN DAMNATION, succeeds both as a “straight” story and as a parody, and yes, it does so at the same time. A common problem with satire, in…

I’d been planning to see RAMPAGE but could never make the time. First I was busy, then AVENGERS came out, then DEADPOOL 2, and I had to see them first. Thanks to a pre-season tropical disturbance, though, it rained out my Memorial Day, so I spent some extra time at the theaters this past weekend.…

More and more every day, journalism regresses. Blame the Internet if you want, but for whatever reason we are regressing, not progressing. We’re headed back to the days of William Randolph Hurst with the yellowing of digitized newsprint. More and more articles each day revert to clickbait sensationalism. In short, the go-to for journalistic writers…