THE REACH
A superlative short film adaptation of what has been called Stephen King’s finest-ever story
TV Flashback: FANTASTIC TALES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
An Edgar Allan Poe inspired TV anthology; at least one segment is quite good.
THE TOUCH
A horror-themed relic from what has been called “the most dark and surreal time of Russian history”: the early 1990s
HELL HOUSE LLC, Critics and Creative Campaigns
All about the recent furor over the marketing of HELL HOUSE LLC: LINEAGE, with info on Tom Laughlin, David Lynch and James Cameron
WAX, OR THE DISCOVERY OF TELEVISION AMONG THE BEES
There will never be another film quite like this shot-on-video mind-roaster from 1991
FOG HEART
In my view one of the absoloute finest books by horror writer extraordinaire Thomas Tessier
POLTERGEIST III
The Second sequel to POLTERGEIST, and about on par with the first, which is to say a mixed bag: bombastic, cynical and plain dumb, but with some affecting elements
POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE
A lousy movie, yes, but one that actually improves upon its predecessor in many respects.
SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART
Not a bad novel by any means, but SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART is overlong and not entirely satisfying
GHOSTS IN THE SWAMP
A long-forgotten German horror-science fiction-fantasy epic, translated by indefatigable Joe E. Bandel