by mike | Mar 18, 2019 | Books, Creature Features, Films About Writers, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Research, Uncategorized |
Bestselling horror novelist Malcolm Page is on his way to Snake Island—which is also the title of this 2002 creature feature—to gather material for his next book. The other tourists and crew on this African river cruise are in awe of the guy; one crew member has...
by mike | Mar 7, 2019 | Books, Editing, Ghosts, Horror, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
Here is a post that first ran in 2015. Useful writing tips never become outdated. WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE! To some writers, “outline” is a dirty word (much like “synopsis”). To others, it is an indispensable tool in helping to craft their stories. As for me—well, during...
by mike | Feb 28, 2019 | Books, Bookstores, Films About Books, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Research, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
This was the first post in my long-running series, “Films About Books.” It first ran in 2015. BY THE DEVIL’S HAND Roman Polanski’s eerie 1999 thriller, The Ninth Gate, opens with an old guy named Andrew Telfer hanging himself in his library amid shelves crammed with...
by mike | Jan 28, 2019 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
The 2008 monster flick, Sea Beast, originally titled Troglodyte, is one of many films in the SyFy Channel’s “Maneater” series. With titles such as Grizzly Rage, Rise of the Gargoyles, Sand Serpents, Roadkill, and Blood Monkey, the series covers just about every myth,...
by mike | Jan 3, 2019 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Here is a visit back to the paranoid 1950s. I first presented this post in 2015. As a mere slip of a lad in the 1950s, I totally enjoyed (and had the crap scared out of me by) the numerous science fiction and horror movies spawned during that decade. Paranoia ruled in...
by mike | Dec 20, 2018 | Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I don’t have a category headed, “Guilty Displeasure,” or this film would have qualified. I first presented this post in 2015. In case you don’t know, that line comes from the 2006 horror/thriller flick, The Wicker Man, a remake of a 1973 British film of the same name....
