Horror

Resident Evil: Afterlife

23 September 2010

Today at Bloody Good Horror, I try to cultivate value from 97 wasted minutes of my life.

Five Implausible Urban Legends To Base Your New Horror Movie On

20 September 2010

1. Chewing gum is not fully digested for seven years. 2. All conversations in a room stop or pause at 20 minutes after the hour. 3. A statue of St. Joseph will grant speedy progress on property transactions. 4. Vengeful spirits murder anyone who doesn’t retweet them. 5. Sesame Street is replacing Cookie Monster with [...]

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Elsewhere

15 September 2010

Those of you who skip over my posts about horror movies will be happy to know that I’ve landed a gig reviewing movies at BloodyGoodHorror.com. My first post is a review of the 2005 flick Cry_Wolf. Read it here.

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My Soul To Take

25 August 2010

I’m hoping really hard for Wes Craven’s My Soul To Take. Craven is a masterful director and, his novel Fountain Society aside, has always been a solid writer, though his best work will probably stand as his collaboration with Kevin Williamson on the Scream saga (and he gets bonus points for co-writing Alex Aja’s remake [...]

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A Brief Anecdote

12 August 2010

One time I was walking out of the Blockbuster Video in Edwardsville, PA, carrying a movie (I don’t remember which movie) and I got into my car. There was a boy, maybe ten maybe twelve, coming up the strip mall sidewalk toward me, past the chinese buffet, past the Little Caesar’s, past the Radio Shack [...]

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If I Ran Hollywood

11 August 2010

Julia Roberts stars as a plucky heroine who travels abroad to find herself but finds food and guys who are sooo naked in the bargain. But just as she thinks her life is turned around, she finds herself at the mercy of a suave, eastern European serial killer. It’s like Under the Tuscan Sun meets [...]

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The Passage

22 July 2010

I’ve been trying to write about The Passage for awhile, but when I try, I just end up saying “Oh, it’s pretty good,” or something. It’s an epic book – it spans nearly a century, deals with an apocalyptic event that decimates the U.S. population, and combines eerie supernatural elements with a hard scientific rationale [...]

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Disturbing Behavior

20 July 2010

“The problem with America is mankind’s abject unwillingness to contribute to the delinquency of the young.” That’s what Nick Stahl shouts at a middle-aged man who refuses to buy him a case of beer in Disturbing Behavior, yet another variation on Red Scare paranoia horror from 1998 – the other notable being The Faculty, which [...]

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Splice

21 June 2010

Vincenzo Natali’s Splice is, at this point, officially a box office failure. It opened at #8, earning only $7,385,277. Its subsequent weekends have both seen sheer drop-offs of more than 60% from the previous weekend. Snakes On A Plane has a higher per-screen average. It has yet to recoup its humble $30 million budget after [...]

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Author’s Notes From My Follow-Up to the Imaginary Space Werewolf Romance Classic

11 June 2010

[NOTE: Make up an improbable-sounding name; "Acapella" sounds too much like 'Bella'] doesn’t fit in at her new school because she’s simply too perfect. Nobody else understands her deep and unabiding angst over this except for Edwin Culpeper. Edwin is a 4,000 year old mummy. Who exhibits none of the traditional traits of mummydom, save [...]

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