When Lohman’s circus acquires a jaguar, they don’t realize it’s carrying something unexpected inside of it. They only realize that the new cat is reacting strongly to the lion tamer’s assistant Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou) and that jittery quality is passing to all the cats in the show. The cause will soon be revealed … but […]
Read more "A Violent Creation: Baby Blood"When Shori attains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is, where she is, or what she is. She knows only the unrelenting hunger. It is satisfied at first by a surprisingly docile and self-sacrificing animal. Later, it is a human being who gets too close, who whispers words not of warning or fear […]
Read more "Parable of the Bloodsucker: Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling"The beautiful Belgian tourist Hilde (Susana Taber) is enjoying a private cover, swimming and sunbathing when a snorkeler in the rubber wetsuit comes along. At first, she is pleased to see him—does she know him, perhaps? Then, the knife appears. Passing boater Zachary Kendall (Ricardo Vázquez) stops off to help, but the murderer has gutted […]
Read more "Marina! It Is Time to Feed the Fish: The Fish with the Eyes of Gold (1974)"Oscar Bataille (Fernando Rey) is a French prosecutor who specializes in violent crimes, pleading punishments for murderers and fiends to the full extent of the law. He’s been a big proponent of the guillotine death penalty. Over his career, Bataille has killed dozens in this way, saving society from the burden of supporting monsters for […]
Read more "Not So Violent Blood Bath: Penalty of Death (1974)"In a thunderstorm rocked manor in Louisiana, Lord Archibald Marian (Ángel Menéndez) reads a quatrain from his favorite book, Revelation, and soon discovers that his fate is intertwined with the message. Earth to bury us, water to drown, wind to buffet, and fire to burn. It’s a recipe for disasters, which will be realized when […]
Read more "A Killer Inheritance: Night of the Skull (1974)"Mary Downing Hahn has been composing chilling examples of middle grade horror and thriller since 1979. Since their release, some of those earlier books have seen awards as well as adaptations as graphic novels and a film or two. However, she has not rested on her laurels. Hahn is still going strong forty-five years on. […]
Read more "The Creep Next Door: Mary Downing Hahn’s The Thirteenth Cat"Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) felt lost after her church closed outside of Detroit. She’d survived terrible events in the past and felt God was protecting her for some kind of reason, but it was not clear what that might be. However, when contact came from Italy in the form of Father Sal Tedeschi (Álvaro Morte), offering […]
Read more "The Sinister Secrets of Our Lady of Sorrows: Immaculate (2024)"Alexandra Parkman (Christine Moore) is carrying around quite a bit of bad baggage, thanks to her creepy abusive dad. He’s gone, now, and she’s a grown woman, but she can’t stomach the idea of being touched, which makes things difficult for her fiancé Bill King (Tim Gail). She’s the head of a shelter for abused […]
Read more "1 Blood Sacrifice = 13 Years of Power: Prime Evil (1988)"Molly and Michael’s Mom, their stepdad Dave and his daughter Heather are moving out of Baltimore. The parents are artists—she a painted, he a sculptor—and the idea of living in the country is appealing for many reasons. They found a lovely house complete with nice visual appeal, large grounds, an outbuilding for supplies and workspace, […]
Read more "Not-So-Invisible Fiends: Mary Downing Hahn’s Wait Till Helen Comes"When a celestial event captivates the world, it leads to scientific curiosity as well as prognostications of doom and despair. However, it passes without much incident, as such events do, and the public interest moves along. However, it has left its influence upon the earthlings. Not on human beings, but on something much smaller. A […]
Read more "A Strange Incident in the Arizona Desert: Phase IV (1974)"
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