The town of Lynnfield, Connecticut is thrown into a riotous tizzy when newspaper owner Jed Waterbury (Thomas Mitchell) acquires the serial rights to the latest bestselling novel sweeping the nation. It’s a salacious book about a woman who has relations with a man she isn’t married to! Think of the children. The Lynnfield Literary Circle […]
Read more "Watch Out for the Quiet Ones: Theodora Goes Wild (1936)"When Tommy and Kate got the urge to move, they were not merely interested in a different zip code, they were looking for new lives in a place that was more relaxed and picturesque than what they’d become accustomed to in Boston. They moved away from Massachusetts altogether, leaving behind their circle of friends and […]
Read more "Where the Dead and the Rats Are Always Waiting: Christopher Golden’s The House of Last Resort"When Larry (Jimmy Stathis) cannot stand the frustration of his kids Jenny (Allisun Kale) and Davie (Edwin Avedissian) interrupting his bedroom time with wife Robin (Clara Perryman), he does what any horny dude in 1970s/1980s era LA does. He answers a provocative room rental ad for a place in the Hollywood Hills, arranging with owners […]
Read more "The Most Beautiful Thing Is Being Killed By Someone You Love: The Black Room (1982)"When television producer Felix “Teig” Teigman and his cameraman Jack Prentiss headed off to the coldest place in the world, they had an eye on putting together a television show. The concept was loose, they had not even pitched it properly yet. However, as they took the lengthy road from port city Magadan into the […]
Read more "Suffering the Cold: Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones"Riley (Odessa A’zion) is out of rehab, clean for a few weeks, and seeing a guy she met in the program. Her roommate Nora (Aoife Hinds) is sympathetic. However, Riley’s brother Matt (Brandon Flynn) is taking an active role trying to keep his sister on the straight and narrow, and it is a high handed […]
Read more "Angels to Some; Demons to Others: Hellraiser (2022)"Anna Shepherd (Ella Hunt) has big plans for when she’s done with school. She wants to see the world, take some time off for herself. Her bestie John (Malcolm Cumming) knows about and supports these plans … sort of. He’s smitten, but his affection is unnoticed and therefore unrequited. They’re still a bit off, of […]
Read more "A Christmassy Christmas Time (With Ghouls): Anna and the Apocalypse"Like any lifeform, humanity wants to prolong its existence but when journeys to even the nearest star is a death sentence for anyone living with current propulsion technologies, the survival obsessed species does the next best thing. They devise a method for sending their knowledge and material into space, pouring all their accrued wisdom, learning, […]
Read more "Slow Boat to Tomorrow: John Scalzi’s Slow Time Between the Stars"Lucía (Constanza Cardillo) has escaped hell and dreads being pulled back in. On a farm in the jungles of rural Argentina, she gets inspirational notes from her Abuela (Marta Lubos), rests more than she would care to, and makes daily bicycle pilgrimages to town for cigarettes, drinks, snacks, and the occasional real food. While at […]
Read more "Hiding Out: Welcome to Hell (2021)"The summer they were eleven, Naomi, Cassidy, and Liv loved to play together in the woods. Young girls exploring their own wildness, they had the “Goddess game” to give them little quests, roles, and identities borrowed from classic mythology. However, that game came to a crashing end when Cass and Liv emerged soaked in blood. […]
Read more "Worrying Deceptions: Kate Alice Marshall’s What Lies in the Woods"It all starts with gunfire in the woods in the middle of the night. Brothers Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Julio (Demián Salomón) hear them, realize they are not hunters—the regularity suggests a revolver, not a rifle—but something else. They consider going out but decide against it—the night is dark and full of terrors, after all. […]
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