by mike | Sep 25, 2012 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction |
The last post addressed two cross-genre, sci-fi/horror classics, Alien and Aliens. Trust me, the praise will not be as effusive for Alien 3 or Alien: Resurrection. Still, they’re part of the quadrilogy and deserve some thoughts, so here goes. Keep in mind that the...
by mike | Sep 19, 2012 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction |
The four-film Alien series—the ones with Sigourney Weaver—easily merits a couple of posts. And yes, I know that there were scads of later movies—Alien vs. Predator; Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem; Alien vs. Care Bears, etc.—but those don’t count. (Okay, I’m pulling your...
by mike | Sep 13, 2012 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares |
Okay, a confession: of all the things that creep, crawl, fly, slither, swim, burrow, or move around by means of propulsion other than two legs, the ones that weird me out more than anything else and cause nightmares are—bats. Go figure. It’s not like we had a barn...
by mike | Sep 2, 2012 | Books, Bookstores, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Writing |
Until Field of Dreams hit the screen in 1989, my number one favorite movie was Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror flick, Psycho. That was a long run of twenty-nine years, Psycho having been released in 1960. A lot of great movies over the last two decades have pushed...
by mike | Aug 26, 2012 | Baseball, Books, Magical realism, Research, Writing |
“Three years ago at dusk on a spring evening, when the sky was a robin’s-egg blue and the wind as soft as a day-old chick, I was sitting on the veranda of my farm home in eastern Iowa when a voice very clearly said to me, ‘If you build it, he will come.’” These words...
