Week two! Look at this consistency. This week we’re watching “The Beach House” (2020). This is a Shudder original, which I think I’m sortof woefully under-aware of and should probably watch more of these. “The Beach House”, written and directed by Jeffrey A. Brown (this is his first feature-length film), is also a nice, tidy,…
I’ll cut right to the chase. 1932. I’ve taken a decent survey of history to back up this claim. Please feel free to disagree with me and offer whatever evidence you can, but I don’t believe 1960, or ’87, or 2015, or even 1922 could hold a candle to 1932, undoubtedly the best year in…
Hey, it’s uh, been a hot minute. Like many of you, I’m seeking refuge in this trashfire year by watching a lot of horror movies. If there’s anything nice to be said, maybe it’s the surprising surge in female-led ocean horror that 2020 has given us. I’m going to be taking a look at a…
It’s Halloween month! A time to celebrate all things spooky, frightening, and ghastly. I thought a nice, fitting way to ease into the haunting mood this year would be with a healthy dose of America’s favorite talking dog and meddling kids. In Octoberweens past, I’ve delved deep into what I (perhaps overconfidently) called a “Comprehensive…
Webster’s Dictionary defines “sequel” as: We did this already, but now we’re doing it again. Like so many Draculas before us, Rooster Illusion has risen from the dead for a second time. Did you ask for this? We don’t know. Did we ask for this? Our number-crunchers are crunching numbers as we speak. What we…
Friends, we are gathered here today to mourn the passing of Rooster Illusion, which I am killing again. October 31st, 2019: “Friends, we are gathered here today to mourn the passing of Rooster Illusion, which I am killing again.” —Octoberween: Treehouse of Horror V: Time and Punishment, written by me, just now, announcing the re-deadening…
The formula for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books was simple and effective: author and folklorist Alvin Schwartz collected ghost stories, urban myths, and legends from around the world and pared them down to language that would be easily understood by a readership of children. And if some of the stories were perhaps a…
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