2019: The Year in Bedlam
What is there to say about 2019? A lot, albeit not on the movie screens
What’s in My Halloween Bag…
What follows is a more-or-less random selection of Halloween-themed ephemera
IT’S ALIVE III: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE
The second sequel to IT’S ALIVE (following 1978’s IT LIVES AGAIN) was this straight to video goof from 1987
IT LIVES AGAIN
The Sequel to IT’S ALIVE, made by the original film’s late creator Larry Cohen
GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH
A novelization that replicates the unfettered spirit of its Joe Dante directed source
Thoughts on TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
By now TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, the Showtime shepherded follow-up to 1990-91’s TWIN PEAKS, has been analyzed from every conceivable standpoint
Tracking the Fortunes of the New Friday the 13th
It’s the week of February 13, 2009 and the hotly promoted FRIDAY THE 13th remake has opened number one at the U.S. box office.
The Strange Saga of the Exorcist Sequels
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.
LEGION
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.
ESCAPE FROM HELL
That book remains an invigorating jaunt through Dante’s Inferno, with the deceased science fiction writer Allen Carpenter traversing the nine circles of Hell.