Strange Magic – Book Review
There are some writers who, after writing one great piece of horror literature, have everything after that slow down their careers and they simply fade away. Writing is not what it was in previous decades, with fewer people reading books than ever before, and it is...
28 Weeks Later
Tagline: When days turn into weeks… The Story: The film picks up literally 28 weeks after the initial outbreak of the Rage virus in Britain. It has been five weeks since the last infected person has died of starvation and U.S. military-NATO forces have moved into...
Valley of the Scarecrow – Book Review
This past year (2010) has not been a great year for horror writers. The book as we know it is on the verge of being replaced by technology. The Nook, Kindle and whatever other reading device is available have turned the printed page into a soon to be thing of the...
28 Weeks Later
I was a big fan of 28 Days Later, and was disappointed I didn't get a chance to see the follow up 28 Week Later in theaters. So despite the bad reviews it received, I still wanted to see it and was a happy when the screener of the film unexpectedly hit my door step...
28 Weeks Later
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and Godfather II, Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens, James Whale’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein . . . . It is not often that a sequel trumps its predecessor. Rarer still is when such occurs at the hands of a...
Sacrifice – Book Review
Coming off his Bran Stoker award winning novel COVENANT, John Everson SACRIFICE is the second book to be released by Leisure Fiction and is a stand alone sequel to COVENANT. Everson is a writer that holds no punches. IN COVENANT, its violence and story prey upon it's...
28 Days Later (DVD)
The "28 Days Later" DVD is really cool. we get some really good special feature including 3 different alternate endings, Commentary with Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, Deleted Scenes, Animated Storyboards, Trailers, Photo Galleries, and A great...
The 13th – Book Review
When I sit down to read a book, I always try to find the influence behind the writer’s words and their story. Ideas are born from others' stories, yet, unlike the film business where films are remade or rehashed, original ideas come from the new minds that were...
28 Days Later
“Finally, a work that is consistent with zombie mythology,” you sigh as contaminated bodily fluids enter the mouths of the characters before you onscreen, inevitably leading to infection after decades of screaming vigilantes, covered in--and undoubtedly having...
2LDK
As a perverse “thank you” to two of his directors who met their deadlines for their respective shooting schedules, producer Shinya Kawai issued Yukihiko Tsutsumi and Ryuhei Kitamura a Hitchcockian challenge referred to as the “Duel Project”: create a feature-length...
2012
The end of the world is something that most really do not think about. Many of us go on day by day with no thought that any second it can all end. Since the beginning of the 1900’s when a small asteroid struck Siberia and wiped out acres of forest land, did people...
Siren – Book Review
In Greek mythology, Sirens were known as dangerous bird women. They seduced sailors on ships by singing to them and luring them in. They would make love to them, sink their ships and feed on them, much like a black widow. In later folklore, they were envisioned as...
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
Like Tim Sullivan’s terrific 2005 original, this shot-in-12-days sequel (with a new punning title replacing the long announced BEVERLY HELLBILLIES) is an extended cinematic love-letter to Grindhouse exploitation movies, specifically the work of Herschell Gordon Lewis....
Dweller – Book Review
Strange relationships between species of animals have become common these days. Recently I saw a hamster and a snake become buddies in a zoo in Asia. A tortoise and a hippo, and even a tiger and a rabbit have developed friendships. So who’s to say that if you come...
2001 Maniacs (DVD
I haven't had so much fun watching a horror film in a long time, I've been waiting patently for years to see "2001 Maniacs" I first got wind of it a few years back and after reading the synopsis, I was very eager to see it. We I did wait a few years and finally I got...
