Cat is leaving the safe numbness of Los Angeles to head back home to Edenborough. Her twin sister El has disappeared while sailing, is feared dead. Cat knows better, of course. El is always one for grand schemes and demonstrations. There’s no real reason she should be gone, the ship she was aboard has inexplicably […]
Read more "I Should’ve Remembered; I Should’ve Known: Carole Johnstone’s Mirrorland"Sisters Lucy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Charlotte Bonnard (Judith Ivey) own a beautiful plantation house in the Louisiana bayou, which they’ve converted into a vacation getaway. It’s not the most popular place, seeing few customers. However, thanks to lusty handyman Etienne LeViolette (Benjamin Mouton) and their regular work, the place is in good shape. Perhaps […]
Read more "When Storms Come, They Drench the Sinful and Innocent Alike: Sister, Sister"In the 1980s, the UK was flooded with horror movies of a most salacious, insidious, filthy sort. The types of films that could ruin the moral character of anyone who saw them. Especially children. So, regulations were put into place to approve or reject those films legally entering the country and seeing distribution among the […]
Read more "Approved (With a Few Cuts): Censor"This week marks the end of this month’s series of four articles appreciating Larry Fessenden’s directorial work. As with the first two movies we looked at, this final film has a personal resonance for me. I’m currently employed by the oil and gas industry for my day job as part of an R&D team for […]
Read more "And Hope Dies: The Last Winter"There’s a spooky old Heian era manor waiting for guests. It’s bigger than expected, possibly unrealistically so. The mansion was colossal. Bigger than it should have been. Taller. In the dregs of my mind, a voice frothed with questions: is it meant to be so big? Had I misremembered? Were all Heian houses two storeys […]
Read more "Yawning Widely: Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth"When teenager Sam Adams (Jim Abele) moves to small town Wake, New Jersey, he’s pretty sure of the plan for the near future: Do anything it takes to get into Princeton. If that means going out for the football team as a much needed tight end, so be it. He’s good at ball, strong, a […]
Read more "It Couldn’t Happen Here: Wolfpack"My short story, “Out On Fisherman’s Pier” is a part of the latest edition of Thuggish Itch. This volume has the theme “By the Seaside” and my original story features a murder, a wooing, a touch of madness, and a little cautionary tale-type horror that wouldn’t be totally out of place in a Tales From […]
Read more "“Out On Fisherman’s Pier” appears in Thuggish Itch: By the Seaside"A trio of young women head out to a lovely if isolated house in the desert for a photoshoot, some fun, and to watch one of the biggest meteor showers in centuries. The place belongs to the Dad of high strung but sweet Heather (Sophia Vavasseur). She’s brought along her high maintenance influencer friend Dierdre/Dee […]
Read more "Now I’m Body Snatched And I Know Why . . . Because I Got High, Because I Got High, Because I Got Hi-i-i-igh: The Seed"Today, we continue our look at Larry Fessenden’s work as a director with the chilly, unsettling flick Wendigo (2001). Inspired in part by both folklore as well as Algernon Blackwood’s short story, it grapples with a family fraying at the edges finding themselves in unfortunate situation indeed. What should be a pleasant place to get […]
Read more "Hungry, Always Hungry: Wendigo"The latest Hap and Leonard work from Tachyon Publications is a terrific gathering of five different stories, all previously published in one form or another. Tachyon doesn’t really do much on the original novel side for Lansdale. They specialize in packaging together shorter works (though Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade plays with the collection […]
Read more "Hook, Line, and Sinker: Joe R. Lansdale’s Born For Trouble"
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