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Hippolyta’s relentless search for answers takes her on a multidimensional journey of self-discovery and Atticus heads to St. Louis to consult an old family friend. Continue reading Lovecraft Country S1E6 “I Am.” Live Thread
Every October 1st, I post a thread about horror movie recommendations to watch for the 31days of Halloween. I decided to post this thread two weeks early so that we have time to plan the movies we want to watch … Continue reading Horror Movie Recommendations 2020
After Christina shows up at her doorstep, Leti confronts Atticus about his plan to surreptitiously return to Florida; in search of missing pages to a crucial text, Leti, Tic and Montrose head to Boston, with Hippolyta and Diana along for … Continue reading Lovecraft Country S1E4 “A History Of Violence” Live Thread
I’m working on three things right now: a couple of short stories and my absurdly ambitious and almost certainly doomed novel. One of the shorts is very much in the MR James vein, the other a moodier piece that ties … Continue reading Horror and Me: Working in the Lab, Late One Night
No kid ever wanted to be the knight instead of the dragon. Humans have rules, and worse, consequences. When a human does something, they have to live with it. Maybe they go to jail. Maybe they feel guilty. Maybe they … Continue reading Horror and Me: Our Favorite Thing Is Monsters
My grandmother’s house was built in 1886. It was a row house, typical of the factory cities of the northeast, with three rooms (and a bathroom) on the ground floor, two bedrooms upstairs (where 7 people lived for a while … Continue reading A Pleasing Terror: Horror and Me, A Prologue
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This month we have for you a … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Last Man on Earth (& “Bars and Stripes Forever”)
Dare to say his name. #Candyman is in theaters June 12. pic.twitter.com/yanJYDmxHE — Candyman (@CandymanMovie) February 27, 2020 Continue reading Candyman 2020 Live Thread
When condom monsters attack New York a bitter gay cop investigates. The trashy script, adapted from a German graphic novel, takes your standard monster movie and adds penis jokes. It works as well as it does because the leading man, … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Killer Condom (1996)
In July 1992, R.L. Stine’s first three Goosebumps books (Welcome to Dead House, Stay Out of the Basement and Monster Blood) appeared. “It was the point in my career where I would say yes to anything,” Stine recalled, and he … Continue reading Bad Monster Blood: R.L. Stine, Scholastic and the Battle over Goosebumps
Halloween: early 2000s -Modern era Almost more than any other slasher franchise, Halloween has been willing to go through a lot of redefinitions of what kind of killer Michael Myers is. Is he our worst fears, that anyone could do … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019: Day 31 – The Halloween Franchise Part 3/3
I didn’t watch the full 31 horror movies like I wanted to, but I did watch a lot of Halloween specials of sitcoms, so overall, I’m pretty pleased with what I did end up seeing. And here’s what I drew … Continue reading My (Illustrated) Month of Horror
Celebrate the spookiest day of the year with a campy creature feature toplined by “America’s FAVORITE Super Hero”, the Swamp Thing! Continue reading The Discount Spinner Rack Halloween Special: THE RETURN OF SWAMP THING (1989)
Welcome, all you ghouls and goblins and monster-fluid individuals, to a special Halloween edition of Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and … Continue reading Public Domain Theater (Halloween Special): A Bucket of Blood
The Middle Years: Halloween 4-7 Some horror franchises refuse to die. Halloween being over 40 years old and with more sequels planned is definitely among the oldest of the well known franchises out there. While the first movie captured lightning … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019: Day 30 – The Halloween Series Part 2/3
At the dawn of the 20th Century, modern understanding of death, medicine, and infectious diseases effectively ended the Vampire Panic, but also vampires themselves changed. In 1897, five years after Mercy Brown was exhumed, Bram Stoker publish his seminal novel; … Continue reading The Vampires of Rhode Island: I Am Waiting And Watching For You. Nellie Vaughn, 19, West Greenwich 1889
While Nightmare on Elm Street came to be the series that would make me a horror geek, Halloween was my first true horror franchise, early stepping stones that I will always remember and thus shall be paying tribute to the … Continue reading Month of Horror Day 29: The Halloween Series Part 1/3
If you read a list of horror films with LGBT characters you’ll find a lot of murder victims, serial killers and vampires. Occasionally a gay side character gets lucky (Cursed (2005), ParaNorman (2012) ) but often they’re first on the … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Horror Protagonists
In the Late 19th century Rhode Island was a state of contradictions. In the north, the factories and mills of Providence stood at the vanguard of the American Industrial Revolution. To the south, at the height of the Gilded Age, … Continue reading The Vampires of Rhode Island: The Last Vampire. Mercy Brown, 19, Exeter 1892
What are we to make of a movie like The Lighthouse? The longer you gaze into its depths, the murkier it appears. If it’s sense you want, look elsewhere. This is early period David Lynch territory, a smoky, rusty machine … Continue reading Movie Review: The Lighthouse
