by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 21, 2016 | Blog, New
We really didn’t expect to like this show. Not even a little. The original Hitchcock film stands on its own (Yes we’re well aware of Robert Bloch’s source material, but come on: Hitchcock’s Psycho is the best-remembered horror film of its generation, for good...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 21, 2016 | Blog, New
How many modern-day horror tropes can you cram into sixty seconds? Just ask Sam Raimi. He did exactly that in a wonderful and weird new one-minute commerical/trailer thing for Buick. Yeah, that Sam Raimi, of Evil Dead and the first round of Spider-Man films. And you...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 9, 2016 | Blog, New
Lev Grossman’s novel, The Magicians, didn’t jump out at you as great materials for TV. It’s dark, cynical, occasionally oversexed, bitter, and just a little bit brilliant. So imagine our surprise when SyFy, that grandiose purveyor of cheese,...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Jan 25, 2016 | New, Uncategorized
There are have been countless movies about evil children, from The Exorcist to Children of the Damned, and Corn and on and on. As a tired horror trope, it is rivaled only by the moves about evil dolls, from The Twilight Zone’s “Talking Tina” all the...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Dec 21, 2015 | New, Uncategorized
Yes, this is exactly the kind of dark but oh-so-perfect remix that makes the holidays worth screaming about. Ho Ho Horror indeed… Tweet Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
