Month March 2011

REVIEW: ‘Insidious’

The problem, I think, with most horror movies these days is that they’ve forgotten how to scare us. The relationship of today’s horror film to the audience is very much like that of an old married couple who’ve fallen into… Continue Reading →

Tentacles over Texas: Lovecraft-Themed Film Festival Coming to Dallas

Everything, with rare exception, is better with tentacles. With that in mind, it pleases me to no end to announce that the fine folks at DOA Bloodbath, who already host three great genre film festivals (Pretty Scary, Fears for Queers… Continue Reading →

REVIEW: ‘Red Riding Hood’

Four reviews and countless diatribes later, I think it’s pretty safe to say: I hate the Twilight movies and all things like them. I try to be objective about them, really I do. However, there is something about the bloodless,… Continue Reading →

Auntie Maim: What do Horror Fans Want?

This week’s edition of “What Do Horror Fans Want?” we finally give an unbridled rein to one of our new additions here around the TerrorScribe grotto, Auntie Maim.

No Mountains. No Madness. No Movie.

How does one kill a Lovecraft monster? Option it to Universal Studios. Even after the much ballyhooed – at least in genre circles – of the melding of director Guillermo Del Toro, producer and current 3-D deity James Cameron, Tom… Continue Reading →

PRETTY SCARY 2 REVIEW: ‘Fugue’

For a couple of years in college, I was a music major. I generally liked it except for Tuesdays and Thursdays when, invariably, I’d have a 7:30AM class. My freshman year it was Music Appreciation. Music History took its place… Continue Reading →

REVIEW: ‘Spirit Camp’

If you ask either of my ex-wives, there are a great many things that I don’t know anything about. However, I do know something about cheerleaders. Now before you start with the knowing winks or high-fives, let me clarify: my… Continue Reading →

REVIEW: ‘Drive Angry’

Are you sitting down? If you’re not, you might want to. Ready? Here goes. Nic Cage has done a movie I like. It’s that that I dislike him as a person or actor. It’s not that he hasn’t done anything… Continue Reading →

PRETTY SCARY 2 REVIEW: Shorts, Sweet and To the Point

Nine shorts were presented at this past weekend’s Pretty Scary 2 Film Festival, sponsored by genre regular Shannon Lark’s Viscera Film Festival. Although these films were short -some lasting less than a minute – their message was loud and clear:… Continue Reading →

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