by mike | Feb 15, 2024 | Death, Horror, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
This story is enough to spoil anyone’s appetite. I first presented this post in2020. When Wes Craven, the late film director, needed source material for his 1977 horror classic, The Hills Have Eyes, he turned to a story that combined truth and possibly fiction. An...
by mike | Jan 18, 2024 | Creature Features, Disaster Movies, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
A creature feature that the critics liked? How rare. This post first ran in 2020. 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,...
by mike | Jan 1, 2024 | Books, California, Horror, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
First of all, Happy New Year! For my first post of 2024, I hearken back to my first of four horror novels. Originally titled The Well and published by Bantam Books, the book is now called The Modoc Well and is part of my own imprint, Atoris Press. In addition to being...
by mike | Dec 21, 2023 | Horror, Monsters, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
The story of the Jersey Devil is one of the weirdest that I’ve come across. This post first ran in 2020. Did a woman named Deborah Leeds give birth to a spawn of Satan in 1735? According to the folklore of the forested Pine Barrens region in the southern part of what...
by mike | Nov 9, 2023 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
You don’t want to curl up with a pizza or some tacos while viewing this film. I first presented this post in 2020. Until recently I had not watched the excellent 1986 remake of The Fly in many years. This is my excuse for forgetting that I should not have viewed the...
by mike | Nov 2, 2023 | Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I still don’t know why everyone hates this film. Maybe it’s a Tom Cruise thing. 😊 I first presented this post in 2020. This Tom Cruise-fueled reboot, The Mummy, is a serious contender for the guiltiest of my Guilty Pleasures. It lost a chunk of change for the studio,...