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....
by mike | Dec 3, 2018 | Books, Death, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized |
So what did horror-meister Stephen King think about the Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House, a revisionist version of the 1959 classic ghost story by Shirley Jackson? He tweeted that it was great, practically a work of genius. And remember, he is no fan of...
by mike | Nov 22, 2018 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
I actually presented this post for the first time on Thanksgiving in 2012. What better day to talk about a turkey? This being Thanksgiving, it seems appropriate to write about a turkey of a movie. I’m talking about Mimic 2, the 2001 sequel to one of my favorite horror...
by mike | Nov 12, 2018 | 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 | Nov 8, 2018 | Books, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
In the interest of transparency, here is a post about the Invisible Man. 😊 It first ran in 2015. Old joke: Igor says to Count Dracula, “Master, the Invisible Man is here!” and the Count replies, “Tell him I can’t see him.” (Like I said, old, and also bad.) Of late...
