An early novel by the popular fantasist Nancy Springer that reads like a more fanciful WITCHES OF EASTWICK. It’s pretty good, too, with many pleasingly imaginative touches and an enjoyable feminist-minded narrative packed with a goodly amount of death, destruction and scary monsters.
Nuclear war, as we all well know, has been the subject of many a movie
Reading this quintessentially British apocalyptic nightmare, two things immediately became apparent: 1). The English have the market cornered on dystopian narratives, and 2). In recent years such fiction has grown extremely wimpy
Edited by the late journalist/publisher Adam Parfrey (1957-2018), APOCALYPSE CULTURE is a complacency shattering compilation of articles, interviews and artwork dealing with the abhorrent, apocalyptic and plain weird
This proto-disaster movie hails from 1933. No, it’s not “good” by any means, but is fascinating in its presentation of one of Hollywood’s favorite movie tropes in embryonic form
MIRACLE MILE may not actually fall under the category of horror, but it is one of the scariest movies ever made
One of the most ambitious evangelical films of the 00’s, although that doesn’t mean it’s any good. MEGIDDO is in fact a royal crap fest, and inexcusably shitty even by traditional evangelical movie standards.
As wonderfully eccentric a take on zombie cinema as anyone could hope for, a Brazilian made film that’s creepy, perplexing, energetic, gruesome and recommended
Yikes! An asteroid is heading for Earth, threatening to wipe out the entire planet Sounds like METEOR, DEEP IMPACT, ARMAGEDDON and a host of other modern-day disaster pics, but it’s actually THE END OF THE WORLD, filmmaker Abel Gance’s 1931 epic.
The final installment of George Romero’s DEAD saga is about on par with his previous efforts LAND OF THE DEAD and DIARY OF THE DEAD: flawed in many respects, but pretty good for the most part