This is one of my favorite modern horror movies. I’m a sucker for movies that show a well-known story from a different perspective (Colin and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil are other favorites of mine in this vein), and this one absolutely nails it. If you’ve ever talked to me about slasher films, chances are […]
Let’s do another zombie movie, shall we? I really should have done this after Night of the Living Dead, seeing as how it’s an indirect sequel. Oh well. I didn’t love this movie immediately. Coming from Romero’s films, it’s a different kind of zombie movie. It has fun with the idea of zombies. They run. […]
I Will Follow You Follow me, if you will, down the winding road of the plot of episode four… We start out with Ichabod taking the piss out of Abbie during a driving lesson that becomes a TV car commercial road test. Love it. Then, while searching in the woods for a missing girl, […]
Once upon a time, I didn’t like spooky stuff. I was a skittish little kid and I avoided everything that scared me. Unfortunately, everything scared me. It wasn’t just horror movies or novels, although I kept away from those. Fucking E.T. made me lose my shit when I was six. Why didn’t anyone else realized […]
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Ambrus Sanguine’s Final Show
It was an elaborate set, as far as small television stations go. For over thirty years this faux Old World dungeon laboratory nestled within Studio 6 had been host to the Midwest’s longest running weekly hosted B-movie matinee. Antiquated beakers, cages, and sparking contraptions sat revealed by the stark brightness of house lighting; some of […]
Let’s cut to the chase: I was not looking forward to this season. While last season had some pretty good moments (“The Grove” was one of the best episodes of the series), it remains a frustratingly inconsistent show. So no, I wasn’t looking forward to the return of The Walking Dead. I had it in […]
That’s two depressing movies in a row. Let’s lighten things up a bit while still keeping it within the zombie family, yeah? To do while, we’ll go with Edgar Wright’s zombie comedy, Shaun of the Dead. This movie is perfect. It’s not a parody of the genre, but a loving homage to it. The difference […]
Toynbee Tiles are Back! Have you noticed something different about the streets this summer? I snapped a picture of this Toynbee Tile in my hometown of Newark. Other people have started spotting them again in New York City. These tiles first started making an appearance in Philadelphia in the 1980s and have been spotted as […]
End of Summer by J. Tonzelli is a book that tries really hard. It wormed into all my comfortable places and I wanted to like it. The thirteen short stories it contains are centered on Halloween, which is a soft spot for most of us in the scare industry. Cool weather, changing leaves jumping off […]
I was talking about Lake Mungo with a friend of mine on Facebook, and she mentioned how sad that movie is. Like, soul-crushingly sad. We’re basically watching a documentary about a close-knit family who tragically lost a family member, and we see them deal with the loss in their own way. It’s a heartbreaking character […]