Month: February 2019

This one came and went awfully quickly at the theaters (which is just a nicer way of saying it bombed). I didn’t catch it, and I typically try to see all the decently rated Horror flicks. It’s a shame HELL FEST got lost in the shuffle, because it’s a really good movie. It’s a throwback…

At last, evil had found its true form. The Beast raised its snout, testing the air. A million scents to process, to identify. Some faint, others stronger. The Beast listened. A million sounds, some louder than others, closer. A million heartbeats, coming from everywhere, like a concerto of drums. The Beast licked its chops. Hungry.…

Coyotes in California have been seen by witnesses, these former sporting bright blue eyes. This would either be a case of a genetic mutation or else a group of stereotypical California surfer girls are in actuality were-coyotes. Folklore is full of accounts of werewolves who were recognized while in lupine form because of their eyes,…

I’m from Alabama, as regular readers know (and a fact which many a stereotypical Alabamian has lamented) and I’m a chronicler of Folklore specializing in the grim, the dark, the spooky. Yet I had never before heard of the Wild Woman of Marengo County, Alabama. Maybe this is because she hasn’t put in an appearance…

I’ll start with the argument I respect least. This dude or lady—he or she has one of those names that could go for either—offers five reasons why GLASS was a failure. And he or she is wrong on all five points. As I stated in my own review of the film, just because a person…

I’ve seen criticisms directed at the new Ted Bundy movie EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE that claim the film glorifies Ted Bundy. I have yet to see the movie so I cannot comment directly one way or the other, but as someone who has written about serial killers I will state that it should…

These are exciting times for lovers of the classic Universal Monsters—and who among us isn’t? CBS has just ordered a new pilot for a television program to be entitled FRANKENSTEIN. This one isn’t the familiar tale of the mad scientist and the Monster we all know and love, however. It’s gonna be a cop drama!…

Earlier today I reported that a fire had destroyed Wolf’s Museum of Mystery, one of may favorite places in the world. The MOM had closed up shop in Saint Augustine, Florida but was all set to reopen this Spring in New York state, inside an historic former church building. The owners, Wolf and Ali Mertz,…

This is breaking news, literally and metaphorically. The to-be location of WOLF’S MUSEUM OF MYSTERY, a deconsecrated church in Wellsville, New York, was destroyed in a fire over the weekend. Everything is a complete loss. Owners Wolf and Ali Mertz had just gotten there and just gotten everything moved in. They hadn’t even started unpacking…

Most famous for her starring role opposite the titular Creature in the Universal Studios classic CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (more on that in a second), Ms. Julie Adams, who inspired a little boy still several years shy of puberty to nevertheless feel its first stirrings when he watched her in that film some years…