Monsters Unleashed #1 (Marvel) In a rare treat, a proper Marvel U book makes it to this week’s reviews. If you are a fan of strange monsters appearing from nowhere and causing total havoc, this comic will scratch the Godzilla-sized itch you need to have scratched. If you are or were a fan of Marvel […]
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Dusty joins the great CC from Bloody Good Horror to talk about The Babadook pop-up book and whether or not owning a book that could bring great harm to your household is a good idea. You can listen/download here
This post contains a ton of spoilers about the Underworld series. You’ve been warned. You know what I love about the Underworld series? Pretty much everything. It starts off as a solid vampire/werewolf (or lycan, in the parlance of the movie) action-horror series, taking story cues from Romeo and Juliet and visual cues from The […]
Paper Cuts: 1/30/17
Richard Corben’s Shadows on the Grave #2 (Dark Horse) This book still stands out with beautiful black and white, classic horror style art. The first issue’s strength were the chapters coming before the main overarching tale. This issue’s strength came from the ongoing and absolutely terrifying and brutal art of the Cyclops monster. This book […]
One thing we like to ask people is how they go about the arduous process of creating characters for their stories. While we’ve never had the same answer twice there have been a few standout answers and I’d like to discuss one of them today. It comes from our friend Charity Langley and it’s called […]
Paper Cuts: 12/19/16
Tales from the Suicide Forrest #1 (Amigo) You may have not read the original “Suicide Forest” published by IDW, but you may be familiar with the story, which was turned into the 2016 movie entitled, The Forest. It is all based around Aokigahara – or The Suicide Forest – a real area in Japan, where […]
Frederick stood 50 feet from the entrance of the haunted house while his teammates pleaded with him to go inside. He rattled off a bunch of statistics of mechanical failings in these kinds of pop-up carnivals while they rolled their eyes. “Just 3 years ago in Iowa, the roof came loose and injured 5 people. […]
Game Guide for Horror Fans
It’s probably heresy to admit on this site, but horror isn’t my favorite movie genre. When it comes to video games, though, it’s by FAR my favorite; seven out of my ten favorite video games fall squarely into the horror genre. (You could probably make a case for Heavy Rain as well, since some of […]
The Barn: Movie Review
Dusty reviews The Barn: a loving and bloody homage to 80s slashers.
Paper Cuts: 12/5/16
Number one issues can be tricky. The writer needs to set a world, give compelling characters and leave with something to come back around for the next installment. All within the confines of 32 pages. Bad Moon Rising has some elements that intrigue, but unfortunately get lost in the shuffle because there are too many plot […]