Tag: horror
Bone Tomahawk: Weird Western Wit
Bone Tomahawk is a compelling little Weird Western movie, lurking right on the edge of the genre with its […]
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Read This: Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology
Nothing like a new year for ringing in the Old Ones! Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology is one of […]
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: Small and Sharp
Before any more time goes by I’d like to review A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night—a strange, small, […]
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Read This: A Manhattan Ghost Story
As I mentioned in my previous post, my first encounter with the late T.M. Wright was his 1984 novel […]
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The Visit: Worth Stopping By
The Visit is quite an effective little horror film about two children meeting their grandparents for the first time. It relies on nothing but finely-tuned acting and sharp camera work to make it scary. And it was—I jumped, I flinched, I gasped in shocked surprise. Is it derivative? Absolutely. Is it predictable? Frequently. Is it scary? Yes, indeed.
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Musings on “In the Walls of Eryx”
The popular focus on H.P. Lovecraft has long been on his Cthulhu Mythos. “In the Walls of Eryx” stands apart from that particularly haunted universe. Instead, its universe is a bit closer to home.
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