THE WARD
This may seem like just another trashy potboiler of the type you see dozens of each year, and in many respects that’s just what it is
THEY LIVE
Despite its flaws—and it does contain some fairly grievous ones—John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE is a witty, perceptive and impossible-to-forget concoction
The Jack Martin Books
Movie novelizations are among the most thankless forms of writing that exist
SHOCK VALUE
The subtitle says it all: “How A Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror”
2005: The Year in Bedlam
The following encompasses my picks for the year’s best and worst horror films released in the US in 2005
The Fifty Best Horror Movies of All Time: A Personal Selection
What follows are my fifty favorite horror movies of all time
THE THING
A novelization of John Carpenter’s 1982 classic THE THING by the prolific Alan Dean Foster (who also novelized DARK STAR, ALIEN and—pseudonymously—STAR WARS)
Books On Horror Movie Makers: An Overview
For true horror movie fans, horror moviemakers are as venerated as the films they make. Just check out some of the books about our horror heroes
Is It Just Me or Do These Movies Suck?
Here I’ll take some potshots at a number of horror’s most revered figures
Debunking Some Stupid Sayings
The horror genre, like any other, is host to a number of ideas perceived by many to be Gospel. I’m debunking them.