by mike | Jun 23, 2022 | Books, Death, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Psychological Thrillers, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
This reimagining of a great haunted house story scared the crap out of viewers. I first presented this post in 2018. So what did horror-meister Stephen King think about the Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House, a revisionist version of the 1959 classic ghost...
by mike | Jun 20, 2022 | Creature Features, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Whoops, I’m a bit tardy with my post about the film franchise known as the MonsterVerse, but better late than never. Here is Part One. The MonsterVerse, produced by Legendary Entertainment, didn’t actually start out to be a franchise, but rather a vehicle for an...
by mike | Jun 16, 2022 | Books, Films About Books, Humor, Life, Movies, Romance, Uncategorized |
Four women rewrite their individual stories in their later years. This post first ran in 2018. It seems as though, of late, both the big screen and the small screen are paying more attention to those of us who are, uh, a bit older than most. This is true of the 2018...
by mike | Jun 13, 2022 | Books, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Publishing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
A magazine called Astounding Science Fiction, later renamed Analog Science Fact and Fiction, was highly influential in bringing the sci-fi genre into the mainstream many decades past. One of its editors, John W. Campbell, also wrote for the magazine, and in 1938 he...
by mike | Jun 9, 2022 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
Ah, for the good old days, when the Governator made action movies… This post first ran in 2018. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a horror movie? Yep, he starred in the 1999 clunker, End of Days. Wait, did I say clunker? Well, the reviews were uniformly bad, but since I’m...
