The djinn were born of fire at the dawn of creation, walking between the worlds of angels and man and scheming for the way they might take power over the mortal world. One djinn (Andrew Divoff) came to earth in Persia, 1127, and almost tricked a Persian King (Richard Assad) into dropping the walls between […]
Read more "Be Careful What You Wish For (Part 1): Wishmaster (1997)"It’s been two years since The Hollowing changed the world, transforming a swath of the world’s population into flesh-eating, rampaging ghouls. However, in that time, things have gotten back to a state of near-normal thanks to the advent of SynFlesh, an artificial protein that quells the hunger. What were once murderous monsters have more or […]
Read more "Ghoulfriends: Kayla Cottingham’s This Delicious Death"A nomadic group wanders the wastelands of 2019 in search of revelation and repentance … also a grave to push Kuzman (Nikola Ristanovski) into. Sadly, their assault weapons do nothing against the man but dirty his shirt. He is unkillable, a cursed man whom they ultimately leave behind. Undeath is not the delight it ought […]
Read more "The Future Is as Screwed Up as the Past: Goodbye 20th Century"Single dad Jeffy Coltrane and his daughter Amity live in a single-story sandstone walled house on Shadow Canyon Lane in the quiet tourist town of Suavidad Beach, California. He’s a lover of antiquity who shares a fascination with fantasy fiction with his daughter. She’s a plucky eleven-year-old girl, perhaps a little too smart for her […]
Read more "The Best of All Possible Worlds: Dean Koontz’s Elsewhere"Capt. Kate Sinclair (Charlotte Kirk) and WSO Terry Johnson (Alex Morgan) are flying a mission over Afghanistan when a rocket drops them out of the sky like a bad habit. They survive impact, but Afghanis are inbound with assault weapons. Terry is dropped, Kate gets away and stumbles upon possible safety in the form of […]
Read more "Guns, Guns, Guns: The Lair (2022)"When VICE news photographer Patrick (Kentucker Audley) gets a letter from his recovering addict sister Caroline (Amy Seimetz), disclosing that she has joined up with a recovery group and left the country, he’s immediately curious about where she ended up. When the response comes back that the commune called Eden Parish is in an undisclosed […]
Read more "If You Put Your Hand in the Dog’s Bowl, Don’t Be Surprised If You Get Bit: The Sacrament (2013)"Billy Rowe didn’t start out as a loser, but he sure ended up that way. As Skipp and Spector’s second original novel (their third collaborative work, if one includes the novelization of Tom Holland’s 1985 vampire-next-door flick, Fright Night) kicks off, Billy is strumming his guitar for the rats and the vermin outside his New […]
Read more "The Real Cost of Absolute Power: John Skipp & Craig Spector’s The Cleanup"When Jenny Scanlon (Suzanna Love) comes to the small, New England town of Devonsville to teach a combined class of 4-6 graders, she’s got twentieth century, Princeton, New Jersey ideas about how the world works. Not a one of them prepares her for the yearnings of recently widowed store clerk Walter Gibbs (Paul Willson), studly […]
Read more "Confess, Teacher/Environmentalist/Shock Jock! The Devonsville Terror"Horror author Rick Hautala passed away in March of 2013. To commemorate his career on this, the tenth anniversary of his passing, we’ve opened another of his books for consideration: the 1986 bestselling Night Stone. # Don and Jan Inman have moved to a small town in Maine with their daughter Beth. The old family […]
Read more "Beware the Stone: Rick Hautala’s Night Stone"Hunter White (Alicia von Rittberg) was abandoned when she was just a newborn, wrapped in a blanket adorned with Satanic symbols and dumped in a snowy Boston cemetery. Luckily a policeman found her before she froze to death. That cop, Raylan White (Clarence Smith) would go on to adopt her, raise her as his own, […]
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