Although it’s still little over a day before we turn the page from 2022 to 2023, this is the last post on Considering Stories for the year. Happy New Year, everyone! Let’s hope the next one is better than the last couple. Today, we will kick away the old year with a quirky science fiction/horror […]
Read more "Let’s Do The Time Warp Again: Bloody New Year"Some seemingly inconsequential events can blossom in unexpected ways, shaping a person in profound ways. The summer of 1997 hosted a string of seemingly minor events for Jamie Warren, his disabled brother Dennis, and his friends Mia and Clay, which turned downright cataclysmic. He’s been running from the fallout as much as possible, winding up […]
Read more "Sunshine Devil Girls and Dark Magicians: Ronald Malfi’s Black Mouth"When grad students Elvira (Gaby Fuchs) and Genevieve Bennett (Barbara Capell) go in search of the grave for their thesis subject, they soon find themselves lost. Countess Wandesa Dárvula de Nadasdy (Patty Shepard) was a medieval woman said to have practiced Satanism, witchcraft, and vampirism and reputed to be buried with a magical silver cross […]
Read more "On the Night of Walpurgis: The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)"Ah, the opening days of the global pandemic reaching American shores … Remember how people sat at home and zoomed in to workplace conferences, how we all wore masks (sort of) when we went into public spaces, how we refused to accept hugs and physical contact. Well, back in those days, tech guru and billionaire […]
Read more "Hidden in Plain Sight: Glass Onion"Max (Emjay Anthony) is a believer. Santa is the source of the good gifts, the bringer of wishes. He’s got a letter in his pocket asking for some important things, which are better than presents. He’s got wishes for his dad Tom (Adam Scott) and mom Sarah (Toni Collette) to love each other. He got […]
Read more "Oh, The Weather Outside Is Frightful .. And So Is: Krampus"When Beth agreed to house sit for a wealthy family who is spending some time in Vietnam, she knows she is undertaking a big responsibility. The house is gorgeous, the family’s four year old yellow Lab Jake is good but a bit of a handful, and the Oregon coast is somewhat lonesome. Still, it’s a […]
Read more "Despair and Hope at the End of the World: K. C. Jones’ Black Tide"Tori Tooms (Riley Dandy) is the owner of a record and merch store that caters to the rock and roll/heavy metal crowd. She knows her clientele so well because she’s pretty much catering to herself—hers is a tribe that reveres solid fright flicks, powerful guitar sounds, and has no place in their hearts for the […]
Read more "And He Absolutely Will Not Stop … Until You Are Dead: Christmas Bloody Christmas"Five low-fi tales of supernatural horror and earthly terror await in the latest installment of the V/H/S franchise. However low-fi the stories may seem, the actual captured video images feature some interesting effects and a few dashes of CGI, connected not by a wraparound story but a series of charming stop motion animation experiments involving […]
Read more "Play or Die: V/H/S/99"Bruce Ernst (Josh Ruben) has something broken in his head. Most of the time, he can behave in a normal fashion, allowing him to blend in with privileged patrons of wealthy auction houses, bidding against the others over an artistic prize. Unfortunately for him as the movie opens, Kate Horna (Malin Barr) wins the current […]
Read more "The Red Light Comes on to Say It’s Time to Begin: A Wounded Fawn"None of the refugees aboard the hundred year old, ocean going liner Arcadia have a terrific life. The ship was designed to hold only seven hundred passengers, and in the four decades since it’s been moored off the coast of the Federated States, the population has bulked out well past that capacity. Resources are scarce […]
Read more "Say You Want a Revolution? Well, Everybody Wants to Change the World: Sarah Daniels’ The Stranded"
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