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The 2010s

Apologies for the brutal honesty, but regarding the 2010s I have this to say: What a lousy decade for entertainment!

This is the widely hailed worst novel ever written by Stephen King, and it is indeed pretty lousy

Yet another tragic celebrity death? I’m afraid so. The dear departed this time around is the great William Goldman, one of my longtime heroes

This is the infamously bad directorial debut of Stephen King

Movie-wise 1998 will go down in memory as a year of misunderstood classics

What follows is the latest installment of the Year in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s best and worst movies, according to yours-truly

Now here’s a subject I know a bit about: paperback horror novels of the so-called “horror boom” of the 1970s and 80s

Here we bid farewell to the brilliant, and frustratingly erratic, Tobe Hooper

Another, and extremely good, entry in Centipede Press’s “Studies in the Horror Film” series

In light of the untimely August 26, 2017 death of director Tobe Hooper, here’s a look back at one of his late period films