A horror comic book line curated by Joe Hill is noteworthy genre news. With a mug of tea and covered by a throw blanket, I dug into one of the graphic novels jointly published by the aptly-cheekily named Hill House ...
Read More »Picasso, Goya, and The Imagery of Suffering.
It’s been said many times that art is subjective. After all, interpretation and opinion are both in the eye of the beholder. Art has provided us with beauty, romance, and an escape into the realms of fantasy. It’s also managed ...
Read More »Stag Films – When Gregory Dark Met the Melvins
Despite the fact that the term “transcending genre” has perhaps itself already become a cliché, at least in film discussion, the fact nevertheless remains that much like certain filmmakers, there also exists in music select bands and artists that treat ...
Read More »American Madness; Or, How A Country Lost Its Mind
The first time I encountered the writing of Cathy O’Brien was in 2014. I had binged the first season of True Detective, and I was scouring the Internet to better understand just what the hell creator Nic Pizzolatto was going ...
Read More »CONSPIRACY USA: Cattle Mutilation in Popular Media, Pt. 1
“Is it ‘saucers, Satanists, or CIA?’: All have received accusing glances as the mutilations investigation has proceeded. The ‘answers’ may lie with any of these—or with all—or with none.” ~ Thomas R. Adams, Project Stigmata, March 1978 The image that ...
Read More »And a Little Child Shall Lead Them: Childhood Motifs in Stephen King’s It
I was sitting in a golf cart with Frank Darabont one day during the filming of The Green Mile, talking Stephen King with him while waiting for a shot to be set up. “What’s your favorite King novel?” he asked ...
Read More »Ghost Stories on Tour (Theatre Review)
Don’t think for a second that you know what’s coming just because you know the story.
Read More »Perfect Execution: Film and the Electric Chair
The shocking truth (and serendipitous nature) of film and its relationship to the electric chair has its origins in one man out to destroy another. Propaganda, exploitation and animal cruelty are all part of the same story. One we are ...
Read More »East meets West: The vengeful ghost of Jennet Humfry
There’s a lot to love about Britain. Beautiful countryside, friendly people, rich and intriguing history, a plethora of wonderful artists, musicians, filmmakers, not to mention the full English breakfast and the Sunday roast. Truly fantastic stuff. However, for me personally, ...
Read More »Have We Met Somewhere Before? A Retrospective Look at Reincarnation in Modern Romance Films
I will admit to being highly interested in the paranormal. Ever since I was a child, I gravitated toward the weird and unusual. The idea of ghosts didn’t frighten me rather I was intrigued by the notion that there would ...
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