When Dean Koontz announced he was leaving his then publisher Penguin Random House’s Bantam in favor of working with Amazon.com’s Thomas & Mercer imprint, it made quite the splash. The deal was for a series of short stories/novellas as well as a quartet of novels. We’ve gone through the stories, which formed the first season […]
Read more "Fear of a Transhuman Future: Dean Koontz’s Devoted"When Dieter (Frederik von Lüttichau) and Margot (Luisa Taraz) arrive at the family castle, it is late, the drive has been long, and the dysfunctional marrieds are worn out. Dieter is a verbally abusive sort, particularly because his wife’s family is the source of all money in the relationship. This combined with his impotence is […]
Read more "Loving and Punishing: Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (2021)"Georgia Perry (Radha Mitchell) wants to break the record for lone woman to sail around the world, and she has a pretty good chance of doing so. The Leander, a ship belonging to Georgia’s father Bill (Ray Barrett), successfully made that trip twice before. Georgia’s got a good plan, her boyfriend Luke (Dominic Purcell) secured […]
Read more "Becalmed but Far from Calm: Visitors"So, there’s this abandoned house with lots of rooms and a bloody history, used to be a foster home, but it turned into a scene of a bloodbath when a kid named Martin went nuts and killed everyone after a false accusation of child abuse. A local ghost story rose up, declaring the place cursed […]
Read more "Fine, Kill Me But Don’t Mess Up My Hair: Evil Laugh"When John Carlson was faced with the uncomfortable truth that his father was unable to lead the life he had been comfortably living before his stroke, he was poised with a difficult decision. His wife Julia took the initiative and declared they would not put the old guy into a retirement home. Instead, the family […]
Read more "She’s Lost Control Again: Rick Hautala’s Winter Wake"When the Sellers family renovated the house, they did everything right … except figure out the place was haunted by ghosts and a sacrifice hungry demon. When Deomonous the fiend (voiced by Tony Vespe) possesses their young daughter Grace (Presley Allard), dad Ken (Dave Peniuk) and mom Tammy (Sarah Cleveland) try to come up with […]
Read more "A Rom-Com With Teeth: Sorry About the Demon"Davey Osborne (Henry Thomas) is a typical 11-year-old kid with a love for video and roleplaying games and a perhaps unhealthy fantasy life. His imaginary friend and hero is superspy extraordinaire, Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman). As the prologue shows: nothing stops Jack. Jack Flack always gets away, a factoid that causes Davey’s best friend and […]
Read more "What You Always Wanted: Cloak & Dagger"While she’s waiting for her boyfriend to come back, pianist Sybille (Brigitte Christensen) is visited by a strange voice telling her that they are connected and she is in danger. Is this a ghost? A projection from the future? Sybille does not know, and her boyfriend Gerard (Marco Di Stefano) is not much help. Her […]
Read more "Christine! Angel! Blood Delirium"Charlie Garner moved away from town for privacy’s sake, but a side benefit is the ability to study the heavens with his telescope. One night while he’s doing so, his ex-wife Meg drives up for a chat. She’s not herself, talking about hiring him to look into a murder. He’s not a private detective anymore, […]
Read more "Saucer People in East Texas: Joe R. Lansdale’s The Donut Legion"Jack (Adam Driver) is content with his college life. He’s the leading authority on Hitler, after all, despite not knowing German (he’s learning it). Nevertheless, he’s married to a great (fourth) wife Babette “Baba” (Greta Gerwig), and father to several kids (some his, some Baba’s, only one belonging to both): Heinrich (Sam Nivola), Steffie (May […]
Read more "The Great Big Not Knowing: White Noise"
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