Author: The Evil Cheezman

Not to be confused with the theatrical film of the same name from 2016 featuring the animated doll, this one could just as easily have been titled “The Care and Raising of a Serial Killer.” It’s disturbingly accurate in terms of showing the audience the ways it can too easily happen. There’s that whole debate,…Continue readingMovie Review: THE BOY

There’s this dude named Aaron Sims, who worked on concept art for the series. Before that, he allegedly worked with a dude named Jeffrey Kennedy who wrote the screenplay for a movie titled TOTEM. The lawsuit alleges that Sims recycled “plot, sequence, characters, theme, dialogue, mood, and setting, as well as copyrighted concept art” for…Continue readingSTRANGER THINGS Creators Sued—Again—For Copyright Infringement

You know, I get sent links all the time to movies from production companies wanting me to review them. All the time. Most of the time those movies aren’t of particular interest to me, or aren’t relatable enough to the subject of this website or one of our sister sites (vampires.com and darkness.com) for me…Continue readingMONSTROUS

If you want to kill somebody and you want to get away with it, you need to do it in Yellowstone National Park. But only in a specific part of Yellowstone National Park. Here’s how that works: almost all of the park is located in Wyoming, but 50 square miles of it are located in…Continue readingThe Yellowstone Zone of Death

I learned, after making my way back to the boat and finding the surviving men waiting for me, that there had occurred some debate amongst the group regarding leaving me behind. Oran had upbraided those leaning in that direction, challenging their pride and condemning their, as he called it, abandonment of duty. He’d risked having…Continue readingTHE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Part 32

The most obvious comparison is the situation with the JUSTICE LEAGUE movie, the one done by Joss Whedon to less than enthusiastic reception and the original, which is now being finished by the original director Zack Snyder. But it also makes me think of what happened with the fourth EXORCIST movie, where there are actually…Continue readingThe Craven Cut

When it comes to the classic Universal Monsters, we Monsterkidz will take as much as we can get! There are several new projects in the works, thanks to the incredible success of this year’s THE INVISIBLE MAN both critically and financially. (Remember when this one came out? It seems so long ago now, though it…Continue readingKid-Friendly Universal Monsters? Sure!

It’s Leigh Whannell, the same dude who so capably brought us the recent THE INVISIBLE MAN. The movie couldn’t be in better hands, then. As for who will be portraying Larry Talbot onscreen, the most important bit of news is that it ISN’T Duane “The Rock” Johnson! The Rock has long been connected to the…Continue readingWe have a new Wolfman, and he has a Director!

As my father’s side of the family originally came from that part of the State (after migrating from Georgia sometime after the Civil War), I’d long been familiar with the legend of the Witch of Hinds Road and her fiery-eyed familiar. In town, or close enough, this past weekend, as I’d driven down to catch…Continue readingThe Hellhound of Hinds Road

In those days I entertained a sporadic spirituality, feeble and transient at my weakest moments yet running deep, like a vein of gold in basest rock. I was, as St. Paul instructed, working out my own salvation. For some, great suffering can serve as a wedge driven between a man and God; for others, a…Continue readingTHE CONFESSONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Part 31

Anyone who knows me at all will tell you I am rabidly anti-censorship. I despise “cancel culture.” I despise political correctness (what it has come to mean). I despise Silly Jerkoff Wankers and their causes. And this despite the fact that my social views would be considered liberal by the most conservative definition and radically…Continue readingWhat’s a “Normie”? My Sworn Enemy!

Maurice Sendak’s WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is my favorite children’s book, and one of my favorite all-time books, period. As a wee tyke, this book struck a chord within me that I didn’t understand at the time. I grew up in a different age and under circumstances different, sometimes far more different, from today’s.…Continue readingWalken and WILD THINGS

There is some evidence—And please do note that “evidence” does not equal definitive “proof”, as I have had complaints before from people I’ve interviewed, people who advocated for some theory or new perspective, people who got pissy when I refused to announce that they had definitive proof, despite their presentation of evidence, to support their…Continue readingThank the Neanderthals for the Novel Coronavirus?

I really like the Soska sisters. They’re young women (young attractive women, though that hardly matters), identical twins and hardcore geeks. *Talented* young female geeks, which is something even more rare. I’ve heard them speak on behind-the-scenes features in regards to their films and they seem like a couple of cool dudettes. But this director…Continue readingSoska Sisters: Daughters of Darkness?

This Mexican film was submitted for consideration for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars the year it was released (2017). It didn’t make the cut. I can’t remember which movie won in that category that year, but it doesn’t matter. I guarantee you, whatever that movie was, TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID was just as…Continue readingMovie Review: TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID

It is a sad fact of human nature that any movement, and every movement, no matter how pure, good, moral, or noble it is, will, given time, become coopted and corrupted by extremists. It’s also frustrating, if you’re one of those sufficiently educated to recognize this fact, in that you are powerless to ever keep…Continue readingYour Weekly Dose of Stoopid: Fantasy Racism

I have heard stories, as no doubt you, my readers, have also, wherein the narrator or the protagonist, at some point in the midst of the tale, will chance upon some person or thing that bears, or will bear, great significance for the former, and he or she will experience some feeling of portent, some…Continue readingTHE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Part 30

If your knowledge of Norse mythology comes from the Marvel cinematic universe, in particular the Thor movies, you have a decent but imperfect education on the subject. There are things that the writers of those screenplays, and the comicbooks upon which those screenplays were based, changed for the benefit of the story. For example, the…Continue readingCareful Where You Stick Your Hand, Tyr!

I’m going to need to be careful with this one. It pisses me off, and thus I might be prone, were I not careful, to say something less nice than I ought to. It must be noted that the decision to pull her book came from author Alexandra Duncan. She was not forced to do…Continue readingYour Weekly Dose of MORE Stoopid

There’s a petition circulating demanding that Netflix remove M. Night Shyamalan’s SPLIT from its playlist. Why? Because it inaccurately depicts people who suffer from dissociative identity disorder? Wait, you mean people with DID don’t actually develop superpowers when they shift personalities?!?! Cry me a freakin’ river. Cancel Culture is so idiotic. It started out as…Continue readingYour Weekly Dose of Stoopid: Cancel SPLIT

I’m happy to announce that Nightmare Toys, my favorite of all stores, owned by my friends Kristy and Phillip and recently relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada from Madison, Alabama, continues to grow and prosper. This past week the announcement was made that Nightmare Toys had purchased Big Bang Toys, also in Las Vegas. While Nightmare…Continue readingNIGHTMARE TOYS Acquires a Big Bang

Sean Penn directed the movie INTO THE WILD in 2007. The film was based on the book of the same title by John Krakauer. Both told the story of 24-year-old Christopher McCandless who, disillusioned with the trappings of modern civilization, decided to make like Thoreau and live off the land. He hiked deep into the…Continue readingOut of the Wild, or The Deathtrap Bus Goes on Walkabout

David Lynch has been busy during the quarantine. Hopefully working on plans for a new season of TWIN PEAKS. He wouldn’t tell us if he was, though. He had the third season cooking for 25 years in his head while telling fans that he hadn’t even thought of such a thing. But he’s been making…Continue readingLynch, on Lynch (and Other Stuff)

As I sit typing these words, it is June 29th. This would have been Ray Harryhausen’s 100th birthday. The pioneer, the trendsetter and trailblazer, the master. Cinema as it exists today would not exist if it hadn’t been for Harryhausen. That’s not hyperbolic overstatement. It is a fact. Happy birthday, Ray—and thank you. Thinking about…Continue readingHappy Birthday to the Master!

This is not to say I did not entertain my own terrors at that moment. I have before mentioned my fear that the beast that possessed me would not, despite the gravity of the injury involved, allow me to die. What if, I thought as I sat there, the Hand did catch me, did crush…Continue readingTHE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Part 29

It became obvious to me some weeks ago that if I was going to salvage an enjoyable summer in the midst of the ‘Rona madness, it was going to have to become a summer of drive-in movies and roadtrips. I took just such a roadtrip this past weekend to several of the filming locations for…Continue readingSTRANGER THINGS Country, Part One

Starcourt Mall in Hawkins is really Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, Georgia. It’s a beautiful mall, but it’s a ghost town these days, y’all, and not because of the ‘Rona pandemic. Almost every store in the place is closed. (And maybe the spirit of the Mindflayer!)Continue readingSTRANGER THINGS Country, Part Three: The Battle of Starcourt Mall

More photos from my roadtrip to the filming locations for STRANGER THINGS! As a little bit of extra color commentary, as I was leaving the school I decided to drive around it, to see if there was something I might have missed. As I drove around behind the gymnasium, I interrupted a prostitute busy earning…Continue readingSTRANGER THINGS Country, Part Two

This past week brought the disappointing news that GODZILLA VS. KONG has been pushed back an entire year to summer of 2021. Which sucks. A tiny nugget of other kaiju-related news also came out. Michael Dougherty, director of GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, shared a photo of his Kongzilla figure. This has people speculating that…Continue readingKongzilla

The giant hand stood in the midst of a large circular chamber, rising some fifteen feet above us, almost reaching the ceiling of the room. I had to admire the artistry that had rendered it. It looked so real, like the hand of a giant man turned from living flesh into stone, so smooth and…Continue readingTHE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Chapter 28

If people are supposed to be socially distancing in real life—emphasis on the “supposed to be” part, as I’ve observed little in the way of it on my occasional outings—then actors in movies have to be socially distant, too. That means actors can never get closer to each other than six feet. No kisses, no…Continue readingYour Weekly Dose of Stoopid

The new game from Nacon and Cyanide Studios, WEREWOLF: THE APOCALYPSE—EARTHBLOOD (cool title) is still in development. When it releases you’ll be able to play it on your Xbox One, PlayStation 4, or online. Until then, you will have to content yourself with this new trailer. Shall we watch it together? Okay. Click here. Then…Continue readingWEREWOLF: THE APOCALYPSE Trailer Unleashed

The Dark Universe died an unglorified death after the failure of the remake of THE MUMMY. Then, in what seems like the twinkling of an eye, it was reborn. Fitting for a shared cinematic universe of the Universal Monsters, don’t you think? We’ve already had THE INVISIBLE MAN, which kicked major ass. We’ve got a…Continue readingWhy did Romanek Walk on THE WOLFMAN?

We received a press junket for the film THE DINNER PARTY, now available for livestreaming and on DVD. You can check out the trailer for it here. Here’s the official spiel: “Bill Sage (American Psycho, “Power”) and Jeremy London (Mallrats, The Devil’s Dozen) star in writer-director Miles Doleac’s The Dinner Party, now available on DVD…Continue readingCome to Dinner

Last week I made mention of Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” in an article explaining why I don’t think it’s appropriate to do music reviews on a site like this one. Zevon’s song constituted one of the few exceptions when it’s not only okay to discuss music, it’s mandatory. What song even comes close to…Continue readingDoin’ the Werewolves of London

The editorial in this linked article really resonated with me. In many ways it is my story. I, as was the author, was raised in a fundamentalist Christian environment, although mercifully my mother wasn’t controlling and domineering the way his parents seem to have been. She never really knew what to make of my passion…Continue readingLosing Religion and Finding Faith

To begin with, let me say that I loved A GHOST STORY. (Read my review here.) Loved it. That fact only made me sadder when I learned that the film’s producer Adam Christopher Donaghey had been charged with raping an underage girl on the film’s set. (He is, pardon the de rigueur cliché, innocent until…Continue readingA Sex Fiend Killed Fangoria?

“Are you still praying, Oran?” I asked my friend over my shoulder as we enetered the ruined temple. “Yes, my lord. I am praying in earnest.” The roof of the structure had collapsed in places, leaving jagged holes in the ceiling a good twenty feet above our heads through which sunlight streamed and roots dangled,…Continue readingTHE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Chapter 27

Mere hours earlier I had thanked providence for the, I so believed, increased chance for success that my not having to travel alone accorded me; as I traveled with a group, albeit small, of seasoned warriors, I felt the probability greater that I would locate the temple to which the old woman had directed me.…Continue readingTHE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Chapter 26

Check out this website, peeps. The company is called WEARWOLF USA and if they can’t meet your lycanthropic sartorial needs, then I daresay you don’t need what you think you need! If you don’t believe me just peruse their collection. T-shirts, sweatshirts, long-sleeved and tank tops, beanies, and more caps than you can shake a…Continue readingI’d Like to Meet His Tailor!

We were at dock. I estimate we were about halfway through the night. I awoke at the same moment, I later learned, as several men on the boat, awakened by the unnatural sound—and how soon we had learned to distinguish the natural from the unnatural in this alien landscape!—of oars dipping into the river, the…Continue readingTHE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Chapter 25

The venue I have turned into a theater for live productions, the Historic Lowry House in Huntsville, Alabama, has been shuttered for the past three months due to the ‘Rona. This past weekend it opened again for a sold-out paranormal investigation of the sort we host there on occasion. Conducting such an investigation while maintaining…Continue readingFireside Chats: The Scratch

I tend to be drawn to movies featuring Djinn (alternately Jinn). If the term is not immediately familiar to you, a Djinn is a shapeshifting fire demon from Arabic mythology, and from the religion of Islam, as Djinn are mentioned in the Koran. They occupy in Islam the same spot that “demons” hold in Christianity.…Continue readingMovie Review: UNDER THE SHADOW

I follow numerous Horror-centric websites, both for my own entertainment and to keep up with any and all news that I might deem worthy of reporting upon for this site, here, or one of our sister sites (vampires.com and darkness.com). Something curious I’ve noticed is that more than one of those sites occasionally post music…Continue readingFireside Chats: This Ain’t No Music Site

I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Though Skinwalker Ranch is itself located in Utah, the History Channel show THE SECRET OF SKINWALKER RANCH provides the best—and most accurate, representation of the State of Alabama, and people from Alabama, on television. Dr. Travis Taylor, arguably the show’s “lead”, is from Alabama. (He…Continue readingSkinwalkers and Science

There are those who will insist the show is fake no matter what, just as there are people who will swear the earth is flat and that we never went to the moon. We shouldn’t even waste our energies trying to convince those people of anything, people for whom belief, or in this case non-belief,…Continue readingTHE SECRET OF SKINWALKER RANCH: The Wrap-Up

Luke Skywalker got into a car wreck just after filming the first STAR WARS. In fact filming was still going on, if you count “pick-ups”, which Mark Hamill was unable to do, which resulted in a body double being employed. Hamill suffered a broken nose and damaged cheekbone in the accident, and the belief was…Continue readingThe Wampa and Hoth Horror

“What if something were to happen to the boat?” I asked the men. If we followed the map the old woman had given me, we would have to disembark from the ship at a certain point and travel inland on foot. “We can spare a man to stay behind and guard it,” one suggested. “I…Continue readingTHE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Chapter 24

During the two months+ I spent in lockdown I found it unnecessary to groom. The only places I went were the grocery store, when necessary, which was just a quick in and out; the drive-in movie theater, wherein I remained in my car, with the same being true of a couple of drive-in church services…Continue readingFireside Chats: In Praise of the Neckbeard

Submit it for your consideration: the premise of a Horror movie. The members of an orchestra are left stranded in a centuries-old castle due to a global pandemic. The castle is haunted. And it is surrounded by packs of wolves. You’d go see that movie, wouldn’t you? I sure would, unless I found out it…Continue readingFireside Chats: Surrounded by Wolves