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Continue reading →: On Benighted
James Whale’s 1932 film The Old Dark House is one of my favorite movies of all time, full stop. It’s definitely my favorite of the great Universal films of the 30s, where it’s nestled amongst some very stiff competition. I can’t remember under what circumstances I first saw it, but I…
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Continue reading →: The Mimic Series
Now that I have a Blu-ray player, I finally rounded out my Guillermo del Toro collection by picking up Mimic. (I’d been waiting to get the Blu-ray-only director’s cut, since it was the only version that had a commentary track, and really, the commentary tracks are at least half the reason…
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Continue reading →: Fungi Week
It’s Fungi Week at the Weird Fiction Review, in honor of Fungi, the anthology of fungal fiction that Silvia Moreno-Garcia and I edited! You can read a story from the book, the excellent “Where Dead Men Go to Dream” by A.C. Wise, and there’s also an interview with Silvia and myself, in which…
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Continue reading →: The Devil’s Carnival (2012)
I liked Repo: The Genetic Opera, Darren Lynn Bousman and Terrance Zdunich’s previous musical horror collaboration, and I like stories about dark carnivals, so when I first saw a trailer for The Devil’s Carnival some time back, I was pretty excited. But like with a lot of movies, it flew under the radar…
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Continue reading →: Snow Days
It’s been a little bit since I posted on here. I know it’s like, the biggest Internet cliche around, but I really do promise to try to post more often. Things have been a little crazy the last couple of weeks, and none of it has been the kind of…
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Continue reading →: All the Print That’s Fit to News
A lot’s been going on, so I figured I should pop in here and mention at least some of it. For starters, I’ll be attending my first H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival this May in Portland. It’ll also be my first convention as a guest, which is pretty exciting, especially since…
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Continue reading →: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
Hey guys, remember the crushing disappointment that was Van Helsing? Tommy Wirkola sure does, and he’s managed to find the exact combination of gore, practical effects, asskicking, and harsh language to actually make that formula work. The result is the ridiculous-sounding (and genuinely ridiculous) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which seems to…
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Continue reading →: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Undead (2009)
I’ve been waiting to see this one for years now, because Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is one of my favorite things that has ever been written down, and adding vampires to it is kind of guaranteed to ruin it completely, but whatever, I was excited, because I am just exactly…
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Continue reading →: The Boring Stuff
This isn’t really the sort of thing I like to post about. I normally try to keep this ‘blog for talking about writing and movies and monsters, but every now and then something like this creeps in, so I’ll try to keep it brief: My dad is sick. He has…
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Continue reading →: 2012: The Year in Creatures
[Spoilers here, for Cabin in the Woods, mostly, so heads up.] If I live to be a hundred, publish ten-thousand bestsellers, and cure cancer, one of my proudest achievements will still and always be that John Langan once referred to me as “the monster guy.” I love monsters (it’s right…
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