Sketchy Details @Home #10: Flickering Poltergeist
This week on Sketchy Details @Home, we play along with the comedy poltergeist challenge of SyFy’s Face Off. The results on this challenge were really good overall. The judges hated the design I used...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: Devil
My new Horror Thursday column is up at Man, I Love Films. This week, we’re diving into the M. Night Shyamalan film that was cleverly marketed as not an M. Night Shyamalan film to quell the revolt...
View ArticleSlipstream #11: Your Halloween 2013 Playlist
Why settle for last minute programming choices on Halloween night when you can have a horror aficionado set the groundwork for the best triple feature ever? In the new episode of Slipstream (all...
View ArticleChiller Theatre Expo: The Jaws Museum
At the Chiller Theatre Expo in Parsippany, NJ this past weekend, the world’s largest collection of Jaws memorabilia came to the show for the first time ever. The collection is rarely exhibited in...
View ArticleEscape from Tomorrow Review (Film, 2013)
No discussion of Escape from Tomorrow can be divorced from the production of the film. Writer/director Randy Moore’s surrealist horror story was shot on location (and without permission) in Disney...
View ArticleSharon Needles’ Top 13 Horror Movies for Chiller TV
I love researching things. It’s not a joke. There is no punchline. I take great joy in finding something I don’t know and learning everything I can about it. This really applies to the horror genre. I...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: Black Rat
This week on Horror Thursday, we’re looking at a slasher film from Kenta Fukasaku, the screenwriter of Battle Royale and the writer/director of Battle Royale II: Requiem. He brings his eye for...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: Brain Dead
I think I enjoyed writing the review more than I enjoyed watching the film. I so rarely get to discuss Lovecraft’s earlier, less-heralded work that I turned a so-so horror into a launching pad for...
View ArticleTakashi Miike Directing As God Says Film
I’m terrified of Takashi Miike’s next film project. I’m a big fan of his style and know that if anyone can make this particular story work, it’s Miike, but it’s really disturbing. Production on the...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: Donovan’s Brain
Yesterday was a bit of a mess, but I did manage to get Horror Thursday up eventually. Last week was even worse. The servers ate my original review of Donovan’s Brain that focused on expectations versus...
View ArticleTake Out & Other Stories: A Collection of Weird Fiction by Robert Gannon
Buy for Kindle. Buy at Smashwords. Friends, professors, and family have told me for years that I should just take the plunge and self-publish some of my fiction. I resisted for a number of reasons. The...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: Room 237
Forget everything you thought you knew about Room 237. Yes, technically it is a documentary that features fan theories about the true meaning of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. That’s the misdirection...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: Are You in the House Alone?
What happens when CBS decides they can produce an adult-targeted after school special about pedophiles and male gaze? A laugh a minute horror film that’s meant to be shocking and disturbing. Are You...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: Loner
Well, they can’t all be winners. This week, I looked at a South Korean horror film with a great concept that no one actually wanted to explore on the creative team. Shame. The film I thought it would...
View ArticleLetting Go: Art, Anxiety, and the Competition at Chiller Theatre Expo
I grew up with diametrically opposed art influences in my life. By the time I was in fifth grade, my public school art teacher all but told me to never pursue the arts. In the shocking finale to her...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: I Sell the Dead
Listen, I’ll admit it. My review of I Sell the Dead isn’t the best looking partner at the dance. The hair is messy and the shoes are scuffed. It still gets the job done. This is what happens when I…
View ArticleHorror Thursday: Corridors of Blood
This week on Horror Thursday, we’re looking at one of the odder Boris Karloff films. No, he doesn’t play a literal monster or undergo some horrifying physical transformation; it’s psychological horror...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: We Are the Night
I’m a sucker for a good psycho-sexual vampire film. We Are the Night, an award-winning German vampire film (it got nominated for screenplay and editing at the German equivalent to the Oscars and won...
View ArticleHorror Thursday: The Ninth Gate
This week for Horror Thursday, I watched The Ninth Gate. It’s one of those horror films that people told me I’d like since it came out and no one could explain why. Turns out it’s because it’s a...
View ArticleThat Looks Nothing Like Nosferatu, Mr. Hill (A Robert CBR6 Review)
My second review for Cannonball Read 6 is up. I’m a big Joe Hill fan. He’s a more aggressive writer than his father, Stephen King. The big difference is that Joe Hill lets people edit his work. My big...
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