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Continue reading →: “I’m an actress, not a human sacrifice!” – Ghost Chase (1987)A decade before Independence Day and nearly as long before even Universal Soldier or Stargate, Roland Emmerich made a pair of odd family/comedy/horror hybrids. The first of these (and Emmerich’s second feature-length production, after his film school thesis project, The Noah’s Ark Principle, which showed at the 34th Berlin International…
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Continue reading →: Make Your Voices HeardNominations are now open for The Pitch‘s Best of KC 2025 and I’m throwing my hat (and, frankly, several other hats, for good measure) into the ring. You can nominate me, Orrin Grey, for Best Local Author (under People & Places) and, while you’re at it, nominate the Horror Pod…
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Continue reading →: “The World is Hell” – Felidae (1994)“Animals are good human beings, and human beings are evil animals.” Not too long ago, I was hired to write a brief and fairly surface-level explainer of German krimi films for a client. Who knew that I would shortly be putting that same knowledge to use while watching an animated…
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Continue reading →: “I’m a normal person!” – I Saw What You Did (1965)William Castle is my favorite director, even though he is probably nobody’s nominee for the best director, which – as I said about House on Haunted Hill, which might be his magnum opus, at least for me – frees him up to be so many other things. Despite this, I…
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Continue reading →: When It RainsA couple of years ago, we bought a new (to us) house. We love this house, but it has been a trial, in part because it is actually a very old house (more than 100 years) and in part because the people we bought it from flipped it and made…
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Continue reading →: Born to Runner-UpGlowing in the Dark didn’t win a Rondo Hatton Award. Is this disappointing? Sure. But it isn’t surprising, and this truly is a case where it’s an honor just to be nominated. During the live chat where the award organizers announced the winners, they said that this was the best…
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Continue reading →: “You have until midnight to find the House on Haunted Hill”Okay, I lied. Today is the final day to vote for Glowing in the Dark for Book of the Year (Nonfiction) in the Rondo Hatton Awards. You can click on that link for more info, but all you have to do to vote is send an email to taraco@aol.com with…
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Continue reading →: Bat Appreciation DayToday is Bat Appreciation Day and, to mark the occasion, I thought it might be fun to share a player character option I created for use in the 5th edition of the world’s most popular roleplaying game. I’ve always loved bats and I’ve always loved goblins, so smushing the two…
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Continue reading →: You Have Seven DaysI promise that, here at least, this is the last you’ll hear from me about this subject, but you have only seven days left to vote for Glowing in the Dark for Book of the Year (Nonfiction) at the Rondo Hatton Awards! Voting is easy. All you have to do…
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Continue reading →: Notes from Underground“The audience knows the truth. The world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if you can fool them, even for a second… then you can make them wonder.”—The Prestige (2006) Before we get to today’s big news, I want to take a moment to remind you to…
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