THE NIGHT STALKER
One of the most popular TV movies of all time, and still a witty and enjoyable, if extremely dated, 1972 film
NEAR DARK
One of the great vampire movies, and in my view the best-ever film by director Kathryn Bigelow
NADJA
The “masterpiece” of American indie film darling Michael Almereyda, a highly evocative and idiosyncratic (read: pretentious) black and white reverie set in mid-1990s NYC
Richard Matheson: 1926-2013
What made the late novelist/screenwriter Richard Matheson great? A number of factors, I’d say
HABIT
Courtesy of the multi-talented Larry Fessenden, HABIT turned out to be one the best films of 1997, accomplishing what so many others have failed to achieve: breathing new life into a tired genre
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DRACULA
Here’s a travel book I think we can all enjoy: a guidebook to the European locations specified in Bram Stoker’s immortal DRACULA
NOCTURNA
The set-up of this 1979 obscurity, about Dracula’s babe granddaughter loose in a disco milieu, is irresistible to a bad movie buff like myself
French Horror Essentials
From Adam I'm finally getting around to it. Whether you're a long-time reader or new to the site, you'll probably like my monthly newsletter. You'll get stuff before it's posted and occasional subscriber-only extras. Nothing stupid. No spam. Subscribers get my...Marc Behm in English
Here’s something unique: an American born, English-speaking author whose literary output is only partially in English
2011: Bedlam in Print
For fiction, 2011 was an only slightly better year than it was for movies—and cinematically it was a pretty rotten year