by mike | Nov 10, 2022 | Creature Features, Films About Writers, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Nightmares, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing |
This film provides some big laughs while grossing viewers out. The post first ran in 2019. The 1986 comedy/horror flick, House, not only fits the bill as a film in which the main character is a writer, but more specifically, a horror writer. I’ve written about a bunch...
by mike | Oct 31, 2022 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
As an old guy living in a gated 55+ community, I no longer have to hand out Halloween candy at the front door, since no one does trick-or-treating. In addition to eating the last two Reese’s peanut butter cups, I get all the ones that come before them! Pretty cool....
by mike | Sep 22, 2022 | Books, Creature Features, Films About Writers, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
Why’d it have to be snakes! I first presented this slithery post in 2019. 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...
by mike | Aug 11, 2022 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
When it comes to “B” horror movies there’s bad cheesiness, and there’s good cheesiness. SEA BEAST slots among the latter, as I pointed out in this 2019 post. The 2008 monster flick, Sea Beast, originally titled Troglodyte, is one of many films in the SyFy Channel’s...
by mike | Jun 23, 2022 | Books, Death, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Psychological Thrillers, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
This reimagining of a great haunted house story scared the crap out of viewers. I first presented this post in 2018. 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...
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...