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July 7, 2024
A Quiet Kitty in New York City
A Review of A Quiet Place: Day One
I only recently watched the first two A Quiet Place films. The concept of alien predators that hunt solely by sound but somehow navigate the void of space (where, as we learned in Alien, no one can hear you scream…
July 5, 2024
Pursuing Art in the Age of Hawk Tuah
“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.”
-David Cronenberg
Like many people, I have dozes of different ideas at any given period, the bulk of which are never accomplished due to time and/or financial constra…
June 29, 2024
Curses, Foiled Again!
There’s a subgenre of horror that deals with cursed films. My favorite is John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns, one of his contributions to the Masters of Horror anthology. In Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, I found something which did…
June 26, 2024
Inheritors of the Fire
“The danger in bringing the light to a dark place, is that you might find out what lives in the darkness”.
-OUT OF DARKNESS (2022)
The nature of horror is ancient. It resides in the flickering shadows of our earliest ancestral …
June 23, 2024
Apocalypse Cow
Kyle, a young man of little means with a serious addiction, walked up to the food truck hiding a gun in his jacket pocket. He knew this dude made a lot of money because people lined up around the block to get a burger around lunch and in the evening…
June 1, 2024
Barker's Brilliance and the Future of Literature
By C. Rommial Butler
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Stephen King helped catapult Clive Barker into worldwide fame with this line:
“I have seen the future of horror… and his name is Clive Barker.”
He was right.
Where King helped make …
May 11, 2024
Doctor Gramma
By C. Rommial Butler
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When mirror regards mirror which is the reflection?
This question popped into my mind when I stumbled onto the doctor’s experiment.
But I cannot go into that without some background.
I’ve …
April 24, 2024
Pulling at Threads...
“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches, the other seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who’s ahead, who’s stronger.”
-Ca…
April 23, 2024
Ape-Mania: A Discussion W/ Hunter Goatley
“YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP. DAMN YOU. GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!”
-Captain George Taylor
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MAD: Hunter, it’s great to speak with you again today and thanks for agreeing to this short discussion! There’…
April 13, 2024
The Crow and the Winter Soldier
By C. Rommial Butler
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Here’s a tough thing for us to admit:
We are not responsible for every bad thing that happens to us.
Here’s another tough thing for us to admit:
We are responsible for the way we deal wit…