Month: October 2018

Marley lay on top of the sleeping bag, the thin padding offering little protection from the hard floor. The solitary blanket she’d wrapped herself in separated her from the outside world, a fragile insulation. She lay still, as still as a corpse, her eyes squeezed closed against the nightmare the world had become. She could…

This is admittedly a minor quibble, but I’m not above picking some nits now and again. Check out this teapot. Cool, innit? But it’s being sold as a “Wolfman” teapot. As in, *the* Wolfman, the Universal Monsters Wolfman, the most famous of all werewolves. (More on this in a second.) And any true fan can…

So here’s this movie. I’m going to review it, knowing that the majority of you, if you choose to watch it, won’t like it. You might even hate it. For that matter, I don’t even know if *I* liked it. And yet the film is flawless. It is in every respect a perfect and completed…

Scream Factory is doing us Horror marks a solid, no question about it. Bringing lots of lesser-known cinematic offerings from yesteryear to us on crisp, spiffy new Blu-rays. They don’t discriminate. Even when dealing with a movie that should be forgotten, should be blotted out of the public consciousness, razed from collective human memory. If…

I know you all did what every responsible Horror mark ought to have done this past week, right? You hit your local newsstand or bookstore or the magazine rack at Kroger and grabbed your copy of the new, freshly-returned FANGORIA magazine? (Does Kroger still sell Fangoria? When I was a kid in the glorious 80s,…

Whence came the first serial killer? I expect there is no real answer to that question. Our bestial forbears, little chimpanzee-like hominids, likely had amongst their number a shaggy brute who killed just for the pleasure of the act, and did so repeatedly. That would qualify as a serial killer. Don’t believe it could have…

Friends, you have it within your power. I stand as a victorious gladiator, hand held high, thumb pointed downward, asking for your support. The time has come to kill the critics. Metaphorically. Is this somewhat hypocritical, seeing as how I’m a guy who gets paid to write movie reviews? Nope. Because I am the evolution…

I always hate having to read through some long review to get to the meat of it if I’m in a hurry. Not that this will be a long review. But I’m all about instant gratification where its warranted. Let us cut to the proverbial chase, then. GO SEE VENOM. It is as much a…

Roosevelt Brewster steadied himself, bracing, shoring up his defenses. Around him the commotion and bustle of the police station went on, uninterrupted and ignored. He stared through the glass doorway into his office–the Chief’s office–but his by default after the old man’s stroke. That office contained the only comfortable furniture in the building, a soft…

There are three possibilities here. Pick the one that makes the most sense to you. Scenario number one: there are several different species, and perhaps different races, of undiscovered primates, either apes or subhumans, at large all around the world, that have somehow managed to remain completely undiscovered by modern Science. This isn’t out-and-out impossible,…