Author Joe Lopez

Dubbed, "TerrorScribe" by a former editor, Joe made the conversion to horror sometime in the mid-2000s. Little did he know he'd favored the genre all of his life. When not struggling with short stories, he provided genre film reviews for local entertainment sites and later genre sites who could suffer his cynical views.

It was that same cynicism - and some might say hubris - that lead him to have a brief flirtation with filmmaking. His first two efforts, "Annotated" and "Antes Que Seja Tarde (Before It's Too Late)" both premiered at a local H.P. Lovecraft film festival. A third short, "Survivor Girl" proved to be his undoing though plans are in the works to revived the cursed project.

Born and raised in Dallas, TX., Joe now resides in a small Texas town. Statistics say more dead bodies turn up in small towns that big cities... though he claims to have NOTHING to do with that.

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 →

HPLHS Strikes Again: The Whisperer in Darkness Trailer

While Lovecraft fans like me endure the excruciating wait for Del Toro’s “At the Mountains of Madness”, pickings are notoriously slim for any other tentacle-y goodness. Ordinarily, when Hollywood gets its grubby little mitts on any of Lovecraft’s work, the… Continue Reading →

Women of Horror Spotlighted in Pretty Scary 2 Festival

The local horror film festival season kicks off when the Pretty Scary film festival opens at the Texas Theater February 26th.

REVIEW: ‘Husk’

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Let me tell you about the horror movie with the bunch of pretty kids who get waylaid somewhere out in the country where there is no cell service and then are attacked by… Continue Reading →

REVIEW: ‘Prowl’

They say that you can never go home again. What exactly does that mean? It’s usually one of those nebulous phrases that someone says during a bittersweet homecoming. Sometimes, however, it’s just the hard truth. You can’t go home. Sometimes… Continue Reading →

REVIEW: ‘The Rite’

Faith. What do you believe? Why do you believe it? In the case of religion, we have faith that there is a purpose for our lives, that there is a meaning to it all and ultimately, that there is reward… Continue Reading →

That ‘Insidious’ Teaser

Much has been made of the competition between “Saw” and “Paranormal Activity”, but much of that has only been at the box office. Aside from that, the creators of “Saw” (James Wan and Leigh Whannell) and the producers of “Paranormal… Continue Reading →

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