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 9, 2022 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
Ah, for the good old days, when the Governator made action movies… This post first ran in 2018. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a horror movie? Yep, he starred in the 1999 clunker, End of Days. Wait, did I say clunker? Well, the reviews were uniformly bad, but since I’m...
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 | Jan 10, 2022 | Ghosts, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
“Your girlfriend lives in the corner penthouse of spook central.” Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) delivers that line to fellow Ghostbuster Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) in the 1984 comedy/horror classic, one of my all-time favorite films. The building Ray is referencing...
by mike | Sep 16, 2021 | Fantasy, Ghosts, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Nightmares, Romance, Uncategorized |
This was supposed to be a “Christmas post” when it first ran in 2017, but since then it has been viewed countless times—in just about every month of the year. As a Jewish kid growing up in The Bronx—in a neighborhood of mostly other Jews—I had little exposure to...
by mike | Sep 9, 2021 | Horror, Horror Movies, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
True or not, the legend of this passage to Satan’s digs in mid-America sounds pretty creepy. I first presented this post in 2017. An unincorporated community called Stull, located a short distance from larger Kansas cities Topeka and Lawrence, has the dubious...
