Hank had to drive almost to Tuscaloosa to find a Catholic church. Ironwood had a tiny congregation of its own that met for Sunday services in the old shoe store next to the PO’ FOLKS’ VITTLES restaurant, but the presiding priest only drove in once a week. Ironwood epitomized the “Bible Belt” stereotype for evangelical…
Month: November 2018
No, STRANGER THINGS is not going anywhere
Have you been seeing those clickbaity headlines pondering “Is the show ending?” or some such? And then if you click on the article, it says no such thing, offering only speculation without any evidence to support it? Yeah, I hate those, too. I try to never resort to clickbaity titles for any of my posts,…
Self-professed Vampire Stabs “Werewolf”
I am never one for blaming media—not movies, not video games, not TV, not the Internet, not music, nada, nothing—whenever a nutjob does something crazy. A nutjob who is prone to doing something crazy is going to find something to serve as a catalyst, and if nothing exists then the nutjob will make something up.…
Man or Beast?
Let’s do some cool visual stuff, a’ight? Starting with this video. Just watch it and prepare to be awed. (If you try to cut out the middleman and go directly to YouTube to view it, be prepared to sign in to prove you are of legal age. Not that anyone who is NOT of legal…
Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD
There are enough creatures on display for this one to merit a review here on this site, despite it being a “family friendly” flick. (Although it does manage to get a PG-13 rating.) In particular, the Matagot should be of interest to theria-minded Horror marks. Depicted in the film as solid black hellcats with shiny,…
THERIOPHOBIA: FEAR THE BEAST Part 25
The police told the Kidde family to go home and rest. Chaney Kidde had never been very good at doing what she was told. She’d gone home, hers and Marley’s, to get their dog. They’d wait it out at her parents house, that was the plan. Her mother had been near hysterics by that time,…
The Werewolf Spider of the Amazon
First things first: does the title of this article not sound like the title of an ah-maz-ing 50s B-movie? Too bad that movie was never made. Then again, it’s not too late. Some modern-day genius like Larry Blamire (THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA series) could still have a go at it. But on to the…
Cannibal Cookies
Fake news—and I’m talking about real fake news, here, as opposed to what the little orange dictator currently sitting in the Oval Office calls fake news, which is anything critical of him (and which is, if critical of the orange pervert, almost guaranteed to be accurate—but this is an entertainment site, and I must eschew…
Simon Pegg as the American Werewolf in London?
That’s purely conjecture, but it was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read that John Landis, writer and director of the classic AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, had approached Edgar Wright, co-writer and director of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, and asked him to take on the duties of remaking the former…
Horror is ALWAYS en vogue
Look, I get it, okay? I do. It’s survival of the fittest. Those of us who make a living by writing for the trusty ol’ Internet, we live or die by the clicks. The market is far, far more competitive than television or print media, the magazine racks or bookshelves, ever could be. (Fortunately the…