“Blood Society,” by Jeffrey Thomas is a thrilling horror novel infused with an exciting subtext of gangster lore. Thomas uses this unique hybrid to narrate the fascinating story of Attilio Augusta, a man transformed in his youth in Sicily into a creature somewhat like...
“I’m gonna rape the shit out of that c**t…” And so, we mourn the death of a movie. This is a movie that already drowns any potential suspense in a welter of soapy, soppy, silly flashback scenes that suggest someone wanted to make an elevator-based suspense movie...
There are only certain movies I can tolerate when it comes to reading subtitles, and those films are usually masterpieces in their own right Pan’s Labyrinth, OldBoy, Battle Royale, Ringu and Inside, are ones that have good stories, so as someone who does not...
“Skullbelly,” by Ronald Malfi, is an excellent novella of crime fiction with hints of a possible supernatural element to Private Detective Jon Jeffers’ case involving three missing teenagers. A fourth teenage boy returned from the same trip into the woods covered in...
Magnet Releasing has put out some very good films in the past few years. I have to admit that whoever is making the decisions at the company about the kinds of films that are being purchased for distribution has a good eye for cinema, especially when it comes to...
