by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog, New, Uncategorized
Bates Motel has been an unexpected pleasure since its beginning. Expectations were understandably low before its first-season premiere: yet another reboot or lame-ass prequel of a treasured classic; one more chance to crap on tradition. But not this time. This...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Jan 3, 2017 | Blog, New
Beauty — or something that could almost pass for elegance — are rare on film at all, and even more rare in movies about the apocalypse. Christopher-Lee dos Santoss’ The Last Broken Darkness is the first truly stylish post-apoc tale since, perhaps,...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Dec 3, 2016 | Blog, New
Trollhunter, way back in 2010, was a rulebreaker when it came to horror genrification. It was sort of a found footage/mockumentary, but done with such a deft and realistic touch that you didn’t really think of it that way. It was a monster movie, too, and a...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Dec 1, 2016 | Blog, New
Don’t confuse this with Don’t Breathe or Lights Out. It’s an unsettling little short all its own, one of the artifacts from a Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, a fascinating YouTube channel that actually hides some gold. There are a lot of great things...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Nov 29, 2016 | Blog, New
… only $1.99 on Kindle right now. The vast, depressing majority of ‘urban fantasy’ these days is just half-hearted noir in fantasy drag, with orcs taking the place of gunsels, damsels instead of dames, elves as substitute street creeps, and magic...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Nov 26, 2016 | Blog, New
Short subjects are enjoying a bit of a renaissance these days, but sadly most of them — especially in the horror and speculative genres — are either highly imitative or just plain poorly made. Not so with Aftermath, a twenty-minute tale set ina near-future...
