by mike | Sep 7, 2020 | Creature Features, Disaster Movies, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The 2019 creature feature/disaster flick, Crawl, is an anomaly. It did well at the box office, which is not that odd for the genre. But it also garnered its share of excellent reviews, compiling 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that doesn’t usually happen for creature...
by mike | Aug 20, 2020 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
Hollywood films tend to run in cycles…yes, even lunar cycles. 😊 This post first ran in 2016. Who knows, maybe there were a few extra full moons in 1981. Whatever the case, Hollywood appeared to wax lycanthropic with three wolf-themed films, including today’s subject,...
by mike | Jul 30, 2020 | Disaster Movies, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Actors write books, athletes get into acting, and on it goes. This post first ran in 2016. The bestselling author in question here is none other than Stephen King. His directorial effort, singular, is the 1986 “science fiction action horror comedy” film, Maximum...
by mike | Jul 23, 2020 | Books, Bookstores, Editing, Films About Books, Films About Writers, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Reading horror novels could be hazardous to your health. 😊 This post first ran in 2016. It is pretty well accepted that reading books can influence people in many ways, both positively and negatively. But can they drive readers to madness and murder? In the Mouth of...
by mike | Jul 9, 2020 | Books, California, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
So how did the ending of Finney’s novel and those of the four films differ? Let’s explore that here. THE ENDINGS I’ll call a spoiler alert here, just in case you want to explore any of this on your own. In the novel, to state it simply we could say, EARTH 7, ALIENS 0....
by mike | Jul 2, 2020 | Books, California, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
Who knew that the cautionary plot of this slim novel would endure for so many years? This post first ran in 2016. During my many decades—or is that centuries?—living on this planet I have encountered a number of people who’ve shared the same childhood nightmare. In...
