Month: April 2021

If you’re like me, you read that headline and immediately thought, hey, wait a minute, the Rougarou *is* a Cajun werewolf. And you, like me, would be correct. But as I recently heard on some television program (one of those dramatizing supposed real-life encounters with paranormal entities, Bigfoot, etc.) there are some who maintain that…

I didn’t vote in this year’s Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. I could have. I received my “ballot”. But I was conflicted. Also, I hadn’t seen all the nominees in all the categories. Granted I could have simply abstained from voting in those categories, in the interest of honesty. I’ve done that before. But I was conflicted…

I don’t really feel the need to verbally eviscerate the AltRight overly much (although I do occasionally make fun of Trump trolls) mainly because it seems unnecessary. Really the only people in the world who DON’T know that the AltRight is evil are people who belong to it, and actually they know it, too, they…

Maribelle gasped, flinched. It—he—drew his hand away. Strange how soft his hand felt. She had been lying with her feet out from beneath the covers, her leg that she hadn’t bothered shaving in several days, that still hadn’t gotten tan despite all the time she’d been spending in the sun. And the creature had touched…

When she’d first arrived in Kenya, Maribelle had found it a little disconcerting how early night came. Not even seven PM and already the world had gone dark. Now she didn’t mind it. The heat, the routine of life here wore her out. By dusk she was often ready for sleep. Tonight she was exhausted.…

John Logan, the creator of PENNY DREADFUL, is an extremely gifted writer (he wrote the scripts for GLADIATOR, THE AVIATOR, ALIEN: COVENANT, HUGO, etc.). Now he’s going to try his hand at directing. He’s going to be helming WHSTLER CAMP for Blumhouse. The movie is being called “a queer empowerment story set at a gay…

I despise recreational drug use. Not because I’m some kind of moralist. It’s just that, when you’ve struggled for as long as I have trying to get your brain to function in something resembling normal parameters, the idea of deliberately ingesting chemicals that will alter your brain chemistry just for a short-lived transient pleasurable sensation,…

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men gang aft agley, as the poet said. I went to the theater this past weekend intent on seeing, in addition to a second helping of GODZILLA VS. KONG, the new Horror flick THE UNHOLY. Instead I ended up seeing NOBODY for the second time. Which was fine,…

When it was first announced that Warner Brothers would be releasing all their 2021 movies to theaters and to livestreaming on the same day, I said that I thought it was a mistake on their part. I still say that, and I think the guys wearing suits and sitting in offices are starting to realize…

I saw it today. It. Him. The creature. The Blackmane. BM from now one, for the sake of convenience, okay? So it wasn’t at all what I would have expected. I did expect that it would be a somewhat frightening experience. I mean, it would be like coming up on any animal in the wild,…