Month: April 2022

In the interest of fairness, I have not seen TURNING RED. That’s because Disney made the unwise decision to release the film straight to livestreaming, cutting out its previously promised theatrical run. (Liars, liars, pants on fires!) I can, however, read, and I’ve read a good bit about all the kvetching going on about TURNING…

Horror movies were one of the few, the very few, genres to prove successful during the Rona. With most theaters still closed and most audience members staying home, Horror flicks made some bank. How? For one thing, people were starving for entertainment, and those willing to venture forth were grateful to get it. Those movies…

The forthcoming fourth season of STRANGER THINGS may be the closest thing we’ll get to having Robert Englund back as Freddy Krueger. I hope not. Robert has another NIGHTMARE left in him, he’s said, and it’s for sure and certain the fans want him back. While we wait for the suits-in-offices to get their ducks…

The Vecna is the new monster threat we’ll be seeing in season four of STRANGER THINGS (debuting May 27th on Netflix). We already know that the Vecna was once human, but a human who has spent a long time in the Upside-Down and has mutated into a new form. Might that human be one Victor…

It sounds like a new kind of automobile, but it’s the new monster for the forthcoming STRANGER THINGS season four! In keeping with the tradition of the kids naming the monsters in the show after creatures appearing in DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS—the Demogorgon, the Mind-Flayer—the new beast is called the Vecna. In the world of D&D,…

“But if one life is sacrificed to save many lives, it is then justifiable,” the African said. “That’s easy to say,” Blaine said. “It is true. The Romans used to throw unarmed Christians to their lions. Men, women, and children. Yet the pagans in their cushioned seats witnessed the manner in which the Christians died,…

The question, Blaine said to himself, is not whether or not I love her, but how much do I love her? It felt stuffy inside the van, even with both the front windows rolled down. Blaine sat in the passenger seat, Phil Hamm next to him, wedged in behind the steering wheel. In the back…

Amman paused. “You don’t mind leaving the University, do you, Mother? You have to sneak around like a common criminal as it is.” She didn’t reply. She could not see him well, her room dark and the hallway lights being so bright. Her son stood in shadow, and his shadow reached into the room, across…

Why did it work for DARK SHADOWS and it never worked for anybody else? When DARK SHADOWS, which was always flirting with the supernatural, went all in on it in an act of desperation (actually bringing in a *vampire* as well as werewolves, ghosts, zombies, witches, and the like) it didn’t feel like a stunt—even…

Remember how you all were trying to spot all the ghosts hidden in the Netflix series THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE? (By the time I got to see the show all the ghosts had been outted, but knowing where they were and when to look for them didn’t make it any less fun for me.…