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Second Breakfast Octoberween: “The Killer Shrews”

“Those who hunt by night will tell you that the wildest and most vicious of all animals is the tiny shrew. The shrew feeds only by the dark of the moon. He must eat his own body weight every few hours or starve. And the shrew devours everything: bones, flesh, marrow… everything. In March, first…

October 25, 2020 in Octoberween, Second Breakfast.

Second Breakfast Octoberween: Horror’s Best Year?

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…

October 11, 2020 in Octoberween, Second Breakfast.

/horror visits “The House of Usher” (1960)

Baddie: I mean, the House of Usher. It’s in the name. Lesson: The Usher line is tainted, Mr. Winthrop. Octoberween is a time for reflection. SciFridays is now /horror, the leaves are changing (but not in Texas) and I’m trying to be good at Twitter. (Follow me on Twitter @slash_horror!) It seemed appropriate, then, to theme…

October 7, 2016 in Movie Review, Octoberween, SciFriday, slash_horror.

Octoberween Five: I’ll Live Forever, But Most People Won’t

Horror can be anything. Goofy, political, dramatic, and everything in between. But the best horror, is, at its core, human. We (by “we” I mean “everyone but me”) are all going to die, and death comes in myriad forms. We meet it in myriad ways. Personally, I hope to go out laughing, but I have…

October 1, 2016 in Octoberween.

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