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Continue reading →: Red Lights (2012)
Somehow, in spite of an intimidating cast including Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, and Elizabeth Olsen with nothing to do, I had never heard of Red Lights before Netflix suggested it to me. But just a glance was enough to tell me that it seemed right up…
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Continue reading →: 2015: The Year in Writing
Well, it took me a while to get to this, so here we are almost two months into 2016, but here’s a recap of how writing went in 2015. First off, it was my second full year as a full time freelance writer. It was also, by far, the hardest…
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Continue reading →: Split Second (1992)
Given my longstanding affection for Rutger Hauer and monster movies, it should come as no surprise that I watched Split Second–probably a few times–when it was at the video rental section of my local grocery store growing up. That said, I didn’t remember much of anything about it besides that it…
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Continue reading →: Panic, and Festivals Thereof
Last year, just before I left for Panic Fest, I received a phone call about my dad’s failing health. It wasn’t the first such call, and it wasn’t the last, but that Panic Fest sticks in my mind as the last time for a long time that my dad’s illness,…
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Continue reading →: “The Voice in the Night” (1958)
A few years ago, I co-edited Fungi with Silvia Moreno-Garcia. In the time since, my affection for William Hope Hodgson’s “The Voice in the Night” and its peculiar 1963 Toho film adaptation Matango–as well as all fungal monsters everywhere–has been well documented. However, in all that time, there was always another adaptation of “The…
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Continue reading →: And Other Warnings
Some of you may already have noticed, but Never Bet the Devil, my first collection which was published in 2012 by Evileye Books, has gone out of print as of December 31, 2015. It’s still available from some online sellers, but its sudden scarcity has triggered bizarre online algorithms which have…
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Continue reading →: 2015: The Year in Creatures
Well, 2015 may have been the big year of high-number sequels in long-running franchises, but it bucked recent tradition in one major way: For the first time in a long time, the majority of movie monsters on screen this year were not in multi-million-dollar blockbuster tentpoles (Star Wars notwithstanding), but…
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Continue reading →: The Howling II (1986)
As of recently watching The Howling 2: … Your Sister is a Werewolf (also known as The Howling 2: Stirba – Werewolf Bitch, according to IMDb) I am pretty sure I have now seen all six (!) of the original Howling movies, for better or (more likely) worse. Prior to finishing out the set,…
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Continue reading →: 2015: The Year in Movies
I started 2015 with a modest goal: I wanted to watch more movies that I had never seen before than ones that I had. I think I accomplished that pretty handily. In 2015, I watch 255 movies, 156 of them for the first time. Of those 156, 25 of them…
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Continue reading →: Happy Whatever
Well, so far this December I’ve posted all of one time, though, y’know, that was a write-up of Krampus, so at least I’ve got my priorities on straight. (Speaking of Krampus, the latest episode of the great Werewolf Ambulance podcast not only covers that very film, but also gives a great shout out…
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