I want everybody to think back to a time in their lives when they had a dying relative. I’m sure you made a promise to this relative at some point during a hospital visit. Did you break that promise? Because if you did, then this movie exists almost entirely as a way to punish you […]
Category: Archives
The movie Dark Skies is best described as a roller coaster ride that you have been on ten times already, but the entire track is only ten feet long. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? I’ll start off with the positives…. Some of the effects were interesting, at times very similar to Paranormal Activity but with Aliens. The acting […]
Rec 3 is a 2012 Spanish Horror film directed by Paco Plaza. If you’re like me and growing incredibly tired of the found footage concept then you’ll be happy to hear that the film starts off that way, but switches to a more conventional narrative about 10 minutes in. This is obviously the third in […]
John Dies At The End is a movie that has cult hit written all over it. Directed by Don Coscarelli (of Phantasm and Bubba-Ho-Tep;fame), this movie is based on the book of the same name by David Wong (Senior Editor at Cracked.com). The film stars Chase Williamson and Rob Mayes as Dave and John, two best friends […]
Horror has always found a way to weave itself into other threads of our lives outside of movies and literature. My casket maker and I were sitting in a bar (no this isn’t a joke, the jokes will come later and will hopefully be better than any punch line I could dream up here) discussing […]
Categories
What Comes Next: The Battery
You can read my review of this movie here, and you can read about the “What Comes Next” series here. As always, there will be spoilers. So if you haven’t seen this movie, you’ll need so before reading this article. And I highly recommend that you watch this. Before I get into the meat of […]
Recently, the great Renfield Rasputin wrote a piece in which he mentioned Horror as an emotion. I had never considered this before and found it to be a beautiful concept. I will touch on this some more today while sharing some examples from my life for context. I previously mentioned that Evil Dead was […]
I ended the first part by mentioning how a masterful blend science fiction and horror themes can make for an intriguing and beautiful story. Today I am going to talk about a story where these conventions have been put together perfectly. Dead Space- FORMAT: Video Game Dead Space tells us the story of Isaac Clarke […]
As you may well be aware, Horror is my first love in fiction. I did start this website afterall. What I don’t talk about often enough though is my second love, Science Fiction. Before there was Horror in my life there was Sci-Fi. I grew up an avid fan of the Star Wars films (before […]
Greetings All, I return with another Indy Short of the Week. This week I bring to you Red Star, a stand alone to the Fallout Nuka Break series. This short film is about the journey of our mysterious Ranger as he decides whether or not to leave his quiet and solitary life behind in order […]