THIS THING BETWEEN US
This novel’s David-Searcy-meets-Stephen-King-meets-Philip-K.-Dick aesthetic makes for an invigorating reading experience
This novel’s David-Searcy-meets-Stephen-King-meets-Philip-K.-Dick aesthetic makes for an invigorating reading experience
What follows are the type of little-known films that tend to comprise my “Look Back in Bedlam” listings, of which this is the 1982 entry
A novel that often reads like a Ramsey Campbell Greatest Hits package
The second feature by Brandon Cronenberg, who as in his first (2012’s ANTIVIRAL), created a film that’s heavily informed by the work of his father David
By Bollywood standards this 1984 film is quite good, packed with chills and boasting a tight storyline that nearly manages to sustain itself over a fast moving 145 minutes
What is there to say about 2019? A lot, albeit not on the movie screens
The paperback edition goes out of its way to avoid the dreaded H-word, instead proclaiming it a “Psychosexual Thriller” and “Modern Gothic.” Don’t be fooled: this is very much a work of horror fiction, and an unusually potent and unflinching one.
1973’s THE EXORCIST remains one of the most successful and enduring horror movies of all time yet, Hollywood being as it is, multiple sequels were an inevitability.
This is the official sequel to THE EXORCIST (the novel) written by its creator William Peter Blatty. Most of the things that made THE EXORCIST such a memorable read are in evidence in LEGION, including page-turning suspense, strong characterizations and a powerful sense of raging evil.
Maybe this obscure exercise in European absurdism doesn’t belong in a horror book review, but it does contain generous helpings of mutilation, cannibalism and demonic possession.