THE TOMMYKNOCKERS
This is the widely hailed worst novel ever written by Stephen King, and it is indeed pretty lousy
William Goldman: 1931-2018
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
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
This is the infamously bad directorial debut of Stephen King
1998: The Year in Bedlam
Movie-wise 1998 will go down in memory as a year of misunderstood classics
2017: The Year in Bedlam
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
PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: THE TWISTED HISTORY OF ’70s AND ’80s HORROR FICTION
Now here’s a subject I know a bit about: paperback horror novels of the so-called “horror boom” of the 1970s and 80s
TOBE HOOPER: 1943-2017
Here we bid farewell to the brilliant, and frustratingly erratic, Tobe Hooper
TOBE HOOPER’S SALEM’S LOT: STUDIES IN THE HORROR FILM
Another, and extremely good, entry in Centipede Press’s “Studies in the Horror Film” series
THE MANGLER
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
GEORGE A. ROMERO: 1940-2017
That George A. Romero, who died on July 16, 2017, was one of the most important horror moviemakers of his generation, and indeed of all time, goes without saying