Synopsis: Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) has an idyllic homelife in the Baltimore suburbs. A lovely home, lots of cute little birds to watch, a milquetoast husband Eugene (Sam Waterston), generally sweet kids Chip (Matthew Lillard) and Misty (Ricki Lake). She also has a hidden dark side. This manifests when someone stomps on her view of […]
Read more "We All Have Our Bad Days: Serial Mom"Synopsis: It’s still morning and already a hell of a day for reservation sheriff Traylor (Michael Greyeyes). His wife Joss ‘s (Elle-Maija Tailfeathers) dog got loose, messed with some kind of hazard and needed putting down. His sons Joseph (Forrest Goodluck) and Lysol (Kiowa Gordon) have been arrested across the river for drunken disorderly, one […]
Read more "They Have Their Entertainments, And We Have Ours: Blood Quantum"Before the gripping thriller Blacktop Wasteland exploded onto reading lists and to be read stacks across the crime fiction reading world, author S. A. Cosby wrote stories and even a couple of novels. My Darkest Prayer is in a similar vein to Blacktop Wasteland, featuring crimes and cover-ups running through a small-town Virginia setting. My […]
Read more "“Talk Shit. Spit Blood.”: S. A. Cosby’s My Darkest Prayer"Synopsis: What happens when a trio head off to a shady Eastern European clinic for some cheap, no-questions-asked plastic surgery? Why, they are exposed to questionable medical practices (one lad up on regs asks, “Don’t EU guidelines prohibit surgeons from drinking coffee before a procedure?” while staring at a man in surgical scrubs smoking and […]
Read more "You Get What You Pay For: Yummy"Synopsis: After a powerful storm washes through the small town of Fly Creek, Georgia and knocks out power, some strange things begin to occur. Worms are ending up places they have no business going, they are disappearing from sealed crates in locked trucks where they are supposed to be stored, and a few people are […]
Read more "The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out: Squirm"Stephen Graham Jones weaves the everyday and the mythic with the ease of a Clive Barker. Though his darker turns are not necessarily as gruesome as some of that author’s better-known works, the two writers shared a skewed view of both the world and the genre that has made their name. Whereas Barker has left […]
Read more "It’s All About Squandered Potential, Not Actual Accomplishments: Stephen Graham Jones’ Mapping the Interior"Synopsis: Michael Fury (George Chakiris) has come to Los Angeles to track down a killer. The police are baffled by the brutal slayings, beautiful women left without a drop of blood in their bodies and a pair of puncture wounds on their neck. Reporters like Frazer Kelly (Frazer Smith) have given the serial killer his […]
Read more "Leave the Dead Alone: Pale Blood"Synopsis: A couple of bros, Gregg (Chris Chrone) and Darrell (Greg Joujon-Roche), are out on the town with some great dates June (Rebekka Armstrong) and Celia (Cynthia Chase). When walking back to their college campus from an Italian splatter move and dinner, they are jumped by a couple of ‘roided out mutants (bodybuilders with goofy […]
Read more "“They’re Going to Kill My Friends!”: The Immortalizer"Some horror stories are flawless considerations of grief, death, mortality, and what waits when the candle wicks of our lives reach their ends. Others are tall tales, shaggy dog stories that straddle the line between chilling and utterly ludicrous. Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians is a fine example of the former, tackling the […]
Read more "They Were All My Friends, And They Died: Stephen Graham Jones’ Night Of The Mannequins"Synopsis: The dead of night is that time when reality seems to fall away and dream logic intrudes on the real world. Such is the theme of the 1977 anthology picture Dead of Night, which presents a trio of stories (ala 1975’s Trilogy of Terror) from scenarist Richard Matheson and directed by Dan Curtis. The […]
Read more "Let’s Play Hide and Seek: Dead of Night"
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