by mike | Mar 19, 2020 | Films About Writers, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
My old pal Edgar was, uh, a rather complex individual (he said, by way of understatement). This post first ran in 2016. Okay, I’ll stay on my Edgar Allan Poe kick for one more week. The 2012 film, The Raven, is not about Poe’s classic poem, but about Poe himself—more...
by mike | Feb 27, 2020 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
I have a snow globe containing a dead guy who had froze to death in the snow. What does that say about me? This post first ran in 2016. There are gifts, and then there are GIFTS. You know the kind: where the Giver is totally in tune with the Givee and knows what would...
by mike | Feb 24, 2020 | Horror Movies, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
In the 1956 classic sci-fi/horror movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a young boy insists that his mother is not his mother. This is followed by a woman who swears that her Uncle Ira is not her Uncle Ira. It soon escalates to an epidemic. In the excellent 1978...
by mike | Feb 6, 2020 | Aging, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I might’ve even shrunk a bit more since this post first ran in 2016. 😊 I scored my first driver’s license as a teen in New York City, shortly after they invented the automobile. It listed my height at 5’10”, and it still says that today. Tell the truth, I don’t think...
by mike | Jan 27, 2020 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I happened to be drinking coffee last week as I read some film teasers on Amazon Prime. The coffee wound up shooting out of my nose after reading one teaser in particular. It will be the first one on the following list. (Don’t be drinking anything.) A few others will...
by mike | Jan 16, 2020 | Films About Writers, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Paranormal, Romance, Uncategorized, Writing |
This film can generate a bad case of the willies. I first wrote about it in a 2016 post. In the 2015 Gothic thriller, Crimson Peak, director Guillermo del Toro has crafted an atmospheric period piece designed to scare the living crap out of viewers. Young, aspiring...
