by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 20, 2014 | Blog, New, Slider
There’s a lot to not-like in the trailer for Oculus, the upcoming horror film starring Karen (she’ll always be Amy Pond to us) Gillian. The movie may be good, bad, or indifferent – who’s to say, trailers are works of ‘art,’ to use the term loosely, all by themselves...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 12, 2014 | Blog, New, Slider
The CW isn’t known for its cutting-edge science fiction or horror, but it is the current or former home of stalwarts like Buffy, Angel and Supernatural. We want to give the mini-net the benefit of the doubt. But seriously: we really deserve better than what...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog, New, Slider
A recently unearthed, wordless short that has risen to haunt us all Though this no-dialogue, all-creepy short was uploaded to YouTube more than five years ago, it’s still just as weird as it ever way … and unfortunately both the URLs associated with it no longer...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Feb 1, 2014 | Blog, Slider, Uncategorized
Wait .. it’s not a joke? Seriously? Is there no end of the contempt that some moviemakers have for their source material? We should have seen where this was going with Man of Steel. The callous rconfiguration of Pa Kent as a bitter old man, the virtual...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Jan 28, 2014 | Blog, Slider
Peter Clines has built an incredible world that goes ‘way beyond simple gimmicks and pop-cult iconography. And the newest installment, Ex-Purgatory, has just been published. Superhero novels are kind of a thing these days. You don’t have to look too hard to find...
by johncsj@yahoo.com | Jan 9, 2014 | Blog, Slider
What scares you? Not the fantasy stuff. Not the sparkly vampires or sexy werewolves. What wakes you up in the middle of the night in an icy sweat? So much of what passes for ‘horror’ at the movies these days is painted in a thick coat of fantasy or over-the-top...
