The feature adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is still several months away, but a new documentary aims to give fans an interesting and thought provoking look at the history behind the popular book series… Continue Reading
JimJam here back again for my reaction to the 2019 Release of the Horror/Thriller Crawl. While struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, a young woman finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for… Continue Reading
Bigfoot is one of the most well-known cryptids possibly lurking the North American continent. A possible reason for this is that sightings of bigfoot-like creatures goes back to before the days of the first European landing on the shores of… Continue Reading
Okay. Let’s get some stuff out of the way before we get into this review. Yes, Isaac Thorne is part of our team. No he did not ask me to review his book. I actually put in for an advance… Continue Reading
Throughout horror cinema history, writers and directors have played with the notion of body invasion and replication. Such stories were famously played in John Carpenter’s The Thing, both versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and, most recently, Jordan Peele’s… Continue Reading
Gruesome gifts come in small packages in Malicious (2018), in which college professor Adam Pierce (Josh Stewart) and his pregnant wife, Lisa (Bojana Novakovic) move into a new house provided by the university to which Adam has been recently employed. When… Continue Reading
You’re not the boss of me. It’s a phrase we’ve all uttered at some point, most likely as children. These days, that phrase doesn’t seem to have as much power as it did a few decades ago. No matter who… Continue Reading
Any storyteller, no matter the medium, has to strike a balance between action and exposition in order to maintain the interest of the audience. Too much action (plot), and you risk preventing the audience from developing empathy for your characters.… Continue Reading
Elves: A Review by Luce Allan Throughout the holiday season, Christmas-themed horror films have splattered both the big and small screens with tinsel, blood, and a dash of entrails. One such film is Elves(2018), in which a series of evil and… Continue Reading
Luring a viewer into a film’s story requires two key ingredients: a hook and the suspension of disbelief on the part of the viewer. Sometimes a hook is enough to provoke a viewer into adding a dash of suspension of… Continue Reading