Month: January 2022

I had no idea, prior to seeing it on the shelf at my local Tar-zhette, that Mego had even produced a figure based on the Reptile, one of the lesser-known monsters from the heyday of Hammer Studios. It was a most pleasant surprise, and of course I had to buy her. The procurement of this…

Hell, nobody messed with James “Cooter” Coolidge. Folks knew better. Ever since he’d nailed that last guy in prison. The one that talked shit about Cooter. Cooter had used a smuggled razor blade to cut the guy’s throat. After that, nobody messed with Cooter. He sat up in the darkness. His head ached like a…

Something of an urban legend now, supposedly kids all across the country have, while playing with Ouija boards, contacted a demonic entity named “Zozo”. If this is even true—and it may well not be, as all existing evidence is purely anecdotal—then it’s easily explained away by the Ideomotor Effect. In case you’re unfamiliar with this…

Okay, so here’s the skinny from someone “in the know”. I won’t reveal my source, but trust that this information comes from someone I believe to be credible. Here goes. There apparently is a cave system underneath Blind Frog Ranch, just as is depicted on the television show. And there is a tradition of lore…

I am speaking about the two television programs, THE SECRET OF SKINWALKER RANCH, airing on the History Channel, to which I am slavishly devoted, and THE MYSTERY AT BLIND FROG RANCH, which I had not ever watched until last night, when I caught a few episodes. How do they match up? When I first heard…

I heard good things about this one. It got some grand reviews when it was making the rounds on the indy circuit. I’d hoped it would play in a theater close to my geographic location. It would’ve made for perfect pandemic-year fare, when independent Horror was, alone of all the genres, flourishing. Alas, it never…

Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett Sr from Maryland just got a new heart. It wasn’t a human heart, rather a “genetically modified” heart from a pig. And it’s obviously working, as Mr. Bennett is alive and reportedly in good spirits. This is first and foremost a story of medical miracles, of technological advancement. But dealing as it…

Michael Sarnoski, who brought us the movie PIG starring Nicolas Cage, has signed on to helm that A QUIET PLACE spinoff film we’ve been hearing about. It will take place in the same continuity as the two previous films and is to be based on a story idea by John Krasinski, but none of the…

Gael Garcia Bernal of OLD will be the titular werewolf, or *a* werewolf, at any rate, and one assumes he will be portraying that character. That has been announced previously, and I have reported on it previously, also noting that the character he will be portraying is considerably younger in the comics, a twentysomething. He…

I had planned to go see TURNING RED. I had figured to cover it for this site, dealing as it does with the subject of lycanthropy. Yes, the lead character transforms not into a wolf but into a giant red panda, but it still qualifies as lycanthropy. But now it looks less likely that I…