In Fact, YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED: John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness

Brian Marsh (Jameson Parker) is a theoretical physics grad student who’s part of the latest semester of quantum theory headed by the infamous and merciless Prof. Howard Birack (Victor Wong). Brian and his fellow students Walter (Dennis Dun), Kelly (Susan Blanchard), Catherine Danforth (Lisa Blount), Lomax (Ken Wright), and Mullins (Dirk Blocker) expect a challenging […]

Dissonance and Despair: S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence

Claire Kovalik is the team leader of a deep space work group. They repair downed beacons and whatnot, work out at the ass end of space. Voller is the crass but skilled pilot, Kane is a mechanical subject matter expert and second in command, Lourdes is a comms specialist, and Nysus works software and computer […]

Keep Watching the Skies! The Birds II: Land’s End

When Ted (Brad Johnson) and May (Chelsea Field) decide to rent a lovely cottage on scenic Gull Island, they expect to have a nice family summer away from the hustle and bustle of big city life. Their daughters Jill (Stephanie Milford) and Joanna (Megan Gallacher) aren’t quite thrilled with no access to their friends or […]

Upon Night’s Plutonian Shore: Raven’s Hollow

Edgar Poe (William Moseley) and his fellow cadets Will (Callum Woodhouse), Lutz (Mathis Landwehr), Lawrence (Kyle Rowe), and Thomas (Michael Guest) are on training maneuvers when they encounter the man stretched out like a scarecrow, opened from stem to stern and left to die. As it is, he is not yet dead. When asked who […]

The Red Brings Out Her Eyes: I’m Dangerous Tonight

Amy (Mädchen Amick) is a somewhat repressed psychology student who finds herself challenged by a new assignment—it’s a group project with assigned partners. However, her partner turns out to be poli-sci student and budding actor Eddie (Corey Parker), who pleads overload and tries to convince Amy to request a new partner but only convinces her […]

Stories and the People They Haunt: Ronald Malfi’s Ghostwritten

With his latest quartet of novella length pieces, Ronald Malfi tries something a little different: he approaches the subject of storytelling from four different angles and finds plenty of anxieties to analyze and fears to foment. In “The Skin of Her Teeth,” Hollywood agent Gloria Grossman goes in search of a missing client and finds […]

Bad Men on Twisted Yet Righteous Roads: Guns and Guts

After a man, known in the script only as Prisionero Escapado (Rogelio Guerra) escapes his prison stake, he has to ride like hell. When he loses his horse as a distraction, he makes good a foot race escape, finds a town, trades his stolen pistol for a new horse, rides like hell, trades the exhausted […]

And Be Polite to All You Meet: Speak No Evil

Bjørn (Morten Burian), Louise (Sidsel Siem Koch), and their daughter Agnes (Liva Forsberg) meet a boisterous but pleasant family while on holiday in Tuscany. Patrick (Fedja van Huêt), Karin (Karina Smulders), and their shy son Abel (Marius Damslev) are friendly, complimentary, and swell. Sure, the boy has problems talking due to a birth defect with […]

They’re Playing Our Song: Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II

What’s one of the biggest lies they spill in high school? Why that Prom is a special time in a girl’s life, something to be remembered forever and ever! A hallmark moment, a perfect evening of looking beautiful and being recognized for that beauty. I’d say the number of men and women who give even […]

Odd Jobs: Nelson DeMille’s The Maze

After an active career in the NYPD and a couple of federal task forces, John Corey has been retired and it trying to drink his way through the day. He whiles away the hours reflecting on his life and spinning little stories about Russian agents or Islamic terrorists sending assassins for him. You know, playing […]

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