The greatest evil in the universe (played by Matthew Ninaber, voiced by Steven Vlahos) is imprisoned on a backwater planet and is accidentally released by Mimi (Nita-Josee Hanna), a little girl who dominates at the bizarre homebrewed sport of Crazy Ball but cannot really connect with people outside her own family (and maybe not even […]
Read more "Frig Off, Frig It, and Frig You: Psycho Goreman"Although the title could easily be confused with a classic Hollywood romance from 1954, the 1995 remake of the classic Hollywood romance story, or the sometimes sitcom (1996-2003) and sometimes chilling (2018-2020) adventures of a teenage witch, the movie under consideration today is the third installment of Indonesia filmmaker Rocky Soraya’s series about hauntings, creepy […]
Read more "Charlie-Charlie, Want to Play: Sabrina"For a while in the late 1980s/1990s, even if there was not official horror section at a bookstore, you could always find the backlists for a handful of dark fantasy, suspense, and horror authors. King’s output was in stock, of course, as well as Koontz. A handful of Barker’s volumes. Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. Maybe a […]
Read more "Where You Belong: John Saul’s The Unloved"As is the case with big budget feature films, there are a hefty number of low budget flicks that are not worth watching. As the budget reduces, the possibility of breaking out drops precipitously. A large number of cases fall into this category due to poor conception, laughable execution, or even criminal behavior occurring in […]
Read more "Sleep, Those Little Slices of Death: Beyond Dream’s Door"There’s still time to sign up for the free newsletter from publisher, Flame Tree Press, to read my dark science fiction yarn, “Decaying Orbit.” Hopefully, he thirty-second issue will also get archived on their site (other issues have). I will update when/if it’s available in that way. In addition to updates about forthcoming book releases […]
Read more "Publication Announcement: “Decaying Orbit”"When Maira (Luna Maya) and her husband Aldo (Herjunot Ali) lose their lovely daughter Kayla (Shofia Shireen) in a car accident, it’s a cruel shock. Aldo is able to move on a little sooner than his wife, mostly because he has to in order to keep the family in their lifestyle of choice. However, his […]
Read more "Who You Gonna Call: The Doll 2"Anya (Shandy Aulia) and her husband Daniel (Denny Sumargo) have moved from Jakarta to the big, beautiful city of Bandung. Here, they get a lovely, multi-story house on a brightly lit street filled with similar beautiful houses. She’s a doll designer whose career is slowly taking off. He’s an associate to a powerful builder, who […]
Read more "So Darned Earnest: The Doll"The people who want to assemble a wall along the US/Mexico border are convinced that doing so will stop bad people from crossing that border illegally to perpetrate awful crimes on US soil. Shane McKenzie’s short novel, Muerte Con Carne (literally translated as Death with Meat), argues the desperate are crossing that border in whatever […]
Read more "Predators Along La Frontera: Shane McKenzie’s Muerte Con Carne"After getting cajoled by local oil man Kyle Boatwright (Lou Perryman), oldster T. C. van Houten (Ford Rainey) sells the dump that is his family estate to a young couple from Chicago. Dad Mance Cashen (Patrick Kilpatrick), wife Emily (Suzanne Savoy), and newborn daughter April (Anthony Childs, Ryan Childs) are charmed by the place. Even […]
Read more "Time To Man Up, Kid: The Cellar"Eugene Moffat (Jack Rowan) is a man who is fighting the world. On the one hand, he’s battling the bartender at The Stoker, his little Irish town’s bar, for the privilege of losing himself to another pint. He’s at odds with the tourists who show up in town, interested in seeing the cairn on his […]
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