Reviews
Review: Darkness Rising Offers Nothing New
The roster of IFC’s Midnight line has since its inception been notably sketchy at best, with artful and memorable releases like Kill List, Berberian Sound Studio, Dream Home, and Super ...
Comic Review: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories Is A Wonderful Adaptation
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories is a manga adaption, by Gou Tanabe, of three of H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories, namely The Temple, The Hound, and The Nameless City. The Temple...
Book Review – A God in the Shed by J-F. Dubeau
If you’re looking for some summer reading that is both unsettlingly gory and a fascinating supernatural mystery, then you need to pick up A God in the Shed. It is the second novel from prom...
Comic Review: Buffy Season 11 #8
Faith is back! After losing her position as a co-lead when Angel & Faith reverted back to Angel, I wasn’t sure what was going to happen to a character I was used to seeing in the spotlight....
Looking at Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale Through the Eyes of Feminist Horror
If you are not watching The Handmaid’s Tale, then I urge you to begin to do so immediately. In lieu of any plot synopsis or spoiler warnings, I will shamelessly urge you to read my previous art...
How Pumpkinhead Became a Cult Classic
Stan Winston’s Pumpkinhead is one of the most underrated monster movies of all time. It took a couple of years after completion for it to gain an audience, and then a few years after that for i...
The Fog is an Impressive and Under-Appreciated Ghost Story!
John Carpenter found incredible success with Halloween, but it was not a success right away. He moved on to the next project believing that the film had been a flop. The early reviews and the early ti...
Review: Camera Obscura Is Like A Grown-Up Say Cheese And Die (But Less Fun)
2014’s Starry Eyes was an ambitiously flawed genre exercise in low-budget shocks that catapulted those involved into the hearts and minds of horror fans. Aaron B. Koontz, a producer on that film...
Comic Review: Harrow County Issue #24 Pits Friends Against Each Other In Spite Of The Real Evil At Play Elsewhere
The Harrow County comic book series revolves around a small southern town that is plagued by magic and disturbing paranormal activity. As Harrow County Issue #24 begins, Emmy and Bernice have a showdo...