Welcome to the Horror Writers mailbag! I’m hoping to make this a weekly column, but it all depends on how many questions I get. I didn’t get many for this edition, so I was forced to make up some questions. Please don’t make me do that again. It’s pretty sad. If you have questions you’d […]
Synopsis: A deaf, mute female author lives alone in a fairly secluded house in the woods. A man in a creepy mask shows up, kills her neighbor and terrorizes her. My thoughts: This seems like a pretty standard home invasion movie, but I gave it a shot because it was directed by Mike Flanagan. I […]
This is incredible.
Synopsis: Genetically modified super-wasps descend on a gathering of rich people. If you get stung (STUNG, you guys. I just got it) by one of these wasps, you will become a person-sized wasp. So kind of like zombies, except with wings and a stinger. But hey! Maybe you can produce some delicious honey. (Wasps cannot […]
At its core, this is a slasher movie about a girl who stays on campus over Thanksgiving break and finds herself stalked by 4 murdering psychopaths. The psychopaths kill a couple security guards, and the only thing standing between our heroine and certain death are her own wits. It’s pretty standard slasher fare. As far […]
Have you ever found yourself watching Superbad and thinking, “I wish there was a less well-written version of this with zombies and more annoying characters,”? Then this movie is for you! That sounds harsher than I mean it to. I apologize to the scouts and their stripper friend. Let’s break it down. Ben, Carter and […]
For the third year straight year a horror movie has made the festival rounds and has received rave reviews from self-proclaimed non-horror fans. In 2014 it was The Babadook. In 2015 it was It Follows. In 2016 we have The Witch. I consider myself lucky in that I was able to avoid trailers for any […]
This is a pretty much shot-for-shot remake of Cabin Fever (originally released in the not-so-distant past of 2002). There has been a lot of negative discussion about the fact that this remake even exists, but I had two things in my favor going into this: 1. I’m not a particularly big fan of the original […]
The sparrow had disturbed Grandmother throughout the week. She was living with us, and had been for some time. Grandmother had grown so frail that I insisted she move in. For her advanced age, Grandmother was healthy and content with only the faintest hits of senility. Her eyes were failing, we weren’t sure she heard half of […]
I recently spent a couple days in Milwaukee for work. Since I booked my hotel a little late, the only place I could find within walking distance of my meetings was The Astor. It’s an old hotel (built in the 1920s), and, while parts of it seemed a little rundown, it was a pretty cool […]