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Continue reading →: “Each one of these things comes from an egg, right?”
It was March 14, 1989 when I first saw Aliens in its broadcast television premiere. (Thanks to Jason McKittrick of Cryptocorium for helping me track down the date.) I must have been seven years old–I would turn eight that October–and it hit me the same way that Star Wars seems to have hit most…
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Continue reading →: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Revisionist Glee
For the month of March and into April I was watching with some interest a March Madness-style bracketed tournament over at the Save Horror Twitter in which their best-reviewed movies competed for reader votes to see which one would ultimately emerge on top. A few days ago, I expressed my…
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Continue reading →: Numbers of the bEast: The One We Keep Secret
Almost all of this story is true. Or no, wait, maybe most of it is a lie. Either way, I’m not going to tell you which part is which. # So there we were, standing outside that bar near the Hollywood Theater–the one that isn’t the Moon & Sixpence or…
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Continue reading →: My Soul to Take (2010)
I’m just going to go ahead and say it: My Soul to Take got a bad rap. I’m not gonna say “gets,” because I don’t think anybody even talks about it enough to say anything bad about it anymore, minus a passing mention in that episode of Castle where Wes Craven guest starred.…
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Continue reading →: Purged
I recently–in front of The Witch, I think, inappropriately enough–saw the trailer for the third installment of the Purge franchise, which is coming out this summer under the fairly cute title The Purge: Election Year, and remembered that I’d heard that the first two movies in the series were better than I expected,…
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Continue reading →: High Adventures
Though I have played tabletop role-playing games most of my life–and spent more than my fair share of that time as GM–I had never actually written an adventure until I was asked by Matt Goetz of Privateer Press to put together a campaign to cap off the forthcoming Iron Kingdoms Unleashed…
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Continue reading →: Making Contact (1985)
Before his name became inextricably associated with blockbuster disaster picture fare like Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and the execrable American Godzilla, Roland Emmerich made an incredibly bizarre little movie called Joey, or, as it was known in its American release, Making Contact. (I first heard of Making Contact thanks to this list.) Making Contact is…
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Continue reading →: But Is It Scary?
A couple of months ago, I was asked to contribute an installment to Nightmare Magazine‘s recurring column The H Word. I chose to write about a topic that I’ve spent a lot of time pondering during the years that I’ve been a consumer and creator of horror film and fiction,…
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Continue reading →: Where You Will Find Me (in Fine State)
So, the latest news is that my story “Mortensen’s Muse” will be joining an absolutely stellar lineup in Ellen Datlow’s Children of Lovecraft, which also allows me to check “be in a book with a Mike Mignola cover” off my list. I’m very excited about this publication and this story, which…
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Continue reading →: The VVitch (2015)
So here I am, almost two months into 2016, and I finally saw a movie in theatres for the first time this year, and of course it was a movie that technically came out last year, apparently, though it didn’t get a wide release until now. I have a feeling…
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