I live in New York, about thirty miles outside of New York City, on Long Island. During the 9/11 attacks, I can remember watching the television and realizing that what was happening was not too far from my house. Five days later, I was shooting a film on a local...
I’ll admit I am no expert on Italian Horror films but as I read through the fantastic Italian Horror by Jim Harper, I was surprised at just how many of these films I had seen. I chalk that up to two things: First having a girlfriend in the 1980’s (who is...
There have been a lot of wonderful books released over the past decade on the subject of classic horror films of the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s, with many coming from Mcfarland & Co., who are also the publishers of this book. While most of these books focus on the films...
Upon reading Damn Nation from Dark Horse Comics, it’s easy to deduce its myriad of influences: George Romero’s zombie films, “28 Days Later”, “30 Days of Night”, etc…but that doesn’t make it a bad, or unoriginal story....
Revelations is a 168 page trade paperback from Dark Horse comics that collects the complete, six issue mini-series. Revelations is decidedly Da Vinci Code inspsired with its conspiracies and Catholic hierarchy cover-ups although it ends up being decidedly darker in...
EC Comics is long gone, a victim of 1950’s paranoia run amuck. Horror comics themselves went through a very long lull in the 80’s and most of the 90’s, taking a backseat to superhero and sci-fi related books. But horror comics have come back in a big way over the past...
