Danno, Author at PopHorror

Danno

Dan Lee is a freelance writer, horror fiction author and independent publisher, and horror culture correspondent living in a small town outside a major Southern metropolis. His articles, interviews, editorials, and fictional works continue to run on several sites and publications. He is also one of the resurrectionists behind the return of the Nashville Zombie Walk (2017).

Spider Baby, The Maddest Story Ever Told – Lon Chaney Jr, Sid Haig, and the Beauty of Schlock and Insanity

December 18, 2017 Retro Reviews Comments Off on Spider Baby, The Maddest Story Ever Told – Lon Chaney Jr, Sid Haig, and the Beauty of Schlock and Insanity

On Christmas Eve 1967, Jack Hill’s Spider Baby, The Maddest Story Ever Told (AKA Cannibal Orgy, The Maddest Story Ever Told) introduced us to the delightfully demented Merrye family. Elizabeth, Virginia, and Ralph are the last members of a wealthy, reclusive, and horribly inbred family cursed with a disease that …

Terror Trek – The Hidden Horrors of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’

November 18, 2017 Editorials, Lists Comments Off on Terror Trek – The Hidden Horrors of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’

Thirty years ago, Star Trek: The Next Generation invited us back into the future to go where no man had gone before. While I geeked out quite a lot over space battles and aliens, what titillated and thrilled me most about Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future were the subtle elements of …

My Favorite Horror Movie – ‘Evil Dead’ (1981)

November 7, 2017 Editorials, Meet Our Writers Comments Off on My Favorite Horror Movie – ‘Evil Dead’ (1981)

Evil Dead has always held a special place in my heart. I can still remember that first VHS copy I owned, the beat up cardboard sleeve faded from where it had spent time on a video store shelf by the window, complete with Bruce Campbell’s clenched jaw jutting out at …