Picking up where we left off last month, 26-year-old writer Stephen King rolled the dice with his first novel Carrie in 1974. When all was said and done, King had collected $200,000 ($1.8 million today) for his efforts. Now the question was could he follow it up? King himself feared …
Read More »Don’t be Diss’n Terry: ‘ORGAN TRAIL’ (2023) – Review
Tar the wagon and ford the river! If you grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, you probably know of the scholastic educational game The Oregon Trail. It may be a punchline nowadays, but it successfully tricked kids into learning. It taught us about to the trials and tribulations of …
Read More »Jon Wright’s ‘UNWELCOME’ Blu-ray: Full of Fun Extras
I have a confession to make – while I own a Blu-ray player, I don’t actually own any Blu-rays. It was a hand-me-down and I use it for my old DVDs as I am a digital girl. That being said, when I was given the chance to review the Blu-ray …
Read More »Paul C. Hemmes’s ‘MAYA’ (2022) – Movie Review
A shape-shifting soul collector seeks to lead a group of unsuspecting non-believers into the afterlife in Maya, a 2022 horror film, written and directed by Paul C. Hemmes (Dead Enders 2010, A Grave in the Woods 2018). Maya (2022) Synopsis Nothing is what it seems when a group of unsuspecting friends …
Read More »Video Game Review: ‘SUCCUBUS’ (2023)
You made a game called Succubus…but it’s extremely censored? This is a game about a sex demon in Hell, riiiight? So why would you release a game like this, covered in censor blur? It’s distracting at first to see all the character designs blurred out, to the point the screen …
Read More »No Quarter: ‘DISTRESS SIGNALS’ (2023) – Movie Review
Lions don’t pick off the weakest prey of the herd, they pick out the one that’s the furthest away. Modern predators in civilization can be in our inner friend circles, daddy-issue creeper dudes in the woods, or even just intrusive thoughts of our own minds,- I call them ‘the shitty …
Read More »‘HUNT HER KILL HER’ (2023) Delivers Visceral Horror Action – Review
I’ve had my eye on Welcome Villain’s festival horror hit, HUNT HER, KILL HER (originally titled NIGHT SHIFT) since I first saw the trailer. I didn’t get a chance to see it in theaters, unfortunately, but I’ve been patiently waiting for the digital release. I recently FINALLY had a chance …
Read More »‘CRITTERS 2’ (1988) Serves Up More than ‘The Main Course’ – 35 Years Later
Fun Fact: Not Just Slang for Nethers, Tehachapi is Also a Town! 35 years ago the sequel to Critters was released. Critters 2: The Main Course, is one of those sequels I list as ‘just as good if not better than the original’. It was Mick Garris’s directorial debut and …
Read More »Going back to 2012 – A Review of ‘Slender Man’ by Anonymous (Book Review)
I think it’s safe to say that a majority of people in this day in age have at least heard of the name Slenderman. According to Wikipedia, he was created as a CreepyPasta internet meme created by Eric Knudsen (also known as Victor Surge) in 2009 on a website called …
Read More »‘SISU’ (2023): The Best Time You Will Ever Have Watching Nazis Die – Review
I’m going to be honest here: I don’t like Nazis. Hell, who does? So show me a film about killing them and I’m there! But even I was not prepared for the all-out slaughter and good time ahead from the Finnish film directed by Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports): Sisu. SISU …
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