by mike | Dec 5, 2022 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Whether you’re a casual or serious fan of horror/sci-fi films (I’m the latter), you probably associate The Blob with the classic B-movie from 1958. After all, it was Steve McQueen’s first starring role. In subsequent years it produced a few sequels, but the first...
by mike | Jul 18, 2022 | Creature Features, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) uttered that awesome comeback line in Jurassic Park (1993). I’ll give you the full context shortly. There are a lot of great lines in what I consider the best of all the films in the Jurassic DinoVerse (my word). Here are a few...
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 | May 2, 2022 | Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Back in 2019 I wrote about the seven films (at the time) that comprised what is called The Conjuring Universe. This is a multi-billion (with a “b”) franchise of horror movies “based on the true stories” of hauntings and demonic possession cases involving Lorraine and...
by mike | Apr 11, 2022 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The story contained within the remarkable 2018 horror film, A Quiet Place, began on “Day 89” and went forward from there. So when A Quiet Place: Part II (2020) opens on “Day 1” we are assured of finding out how it all started. But it is not entirely a prequel to the...
by mike | Mar 7, 2022 | Fantasy, Ghosts, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
A while back, when I ranked the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World films, I mentioned that it was not a matter of Worst to First, given that I did not think any of them sucked. Good to Great was more like it. The same thing holds true for the four Ghostbusters movies. This...
