The first trailer for the new Ring reboot landed this week, and you can check it out in the player below. https://youtu.be/WOH3ORdVmk8 I adored the first Ring movie. While not quite as good as Ringu, the Japanese movie it was based on, The Ring was still pretty damn terrifying and superbly paced. My concern with this new trailer is that there's not a lot of mystery to it. We are basically getting the script outline over the course of the two-minute trailer. Still, I am absolutely going to see Rings. If rings can conjure up even one tenth of the dread the ori[...]
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1 Stuart Gordon is one of my top three horror directors of all time (John Carpenter and Sam Raimi being the other two). His birthday was August 11th, and to celebrate I'm going to recommend three of my favorite H.P. Lovecraft adaptations that he directed. *Note: These trailers contain some foul language, plenty of blood, and one (Dagon) features brief nudity. Re-Animator (1985) https://youtu.be/6NOcRIHiRtc Based on the H.P. Lovecraft story Herbert West--Reanimator, Jeffrey Combs plays Dr. Herbert West, a man who has created a serum that reanimates the dead. As y[...]
Like everyone else on the planet who is remotely interested in horror, I recently devoured the eight episode masterpiece that was Stranger Things. As someone who grew up in the '80s, this series has earned a very special place in my heart. And I could write for days about the loving homages to King, Carpenter, Koontz, Barker and many other horror masters that the Duffer Brothers wove into the show. But that's not what I'm here to write about today. See, there are few things that I love even more than horror, but one of them is music. There are places where my lov[...]
Confession time: I've never read Stephen King's IT. Well, that's not entirely true--I've tried to read IT four separate times over the last thirty years. I was twelve when the book first came out, and I remember taking my dad's copy after he was done with it. I was a big Stephen King fan, having gobbled up all of his short stories to that point. I'd also recently finished Pet Sematary, so I was excited when I saw IT on our kitchen table one day. But despite two separate tries in the next year or so, I wasn't able to get more than halfway through the book. In t[...]
Hey kids, my post this week is a bit different since I've been at Disney World all week with the family. I did manage to squeeze in a bit of horror though, when we visited Disney Hollywood Studios. For it's at that park where there is a monument to my favorite television show of all time, The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone Tower of terror is a ride centered around a haunted elevator. Unlike a lot of other freefall rides, this one is actually pulled down at a speed of almost 40mph by cables attached to the bottom of the elevators. It also bobs back up, and shu[...]
Romance, mystery, dread and terror--Robert Chambers' The King in Yellow has them all in spades. It's a collection of stories that has influenced countless horror writers over the past century, including H.P. Lovecraft himself. Four of the stories in the book reference a play called The King in Yellow, a play so infamous it was banned because simply reading it causes people to go insane. We as readers of the short stories never get to see more than a snippet or two from the actual play, lending to mystery of it. The titular character in the play is a terrifying,[...]
Afterlife with Archie has returned after a long hiatus, and wasted no time in reminding everyone this may be the best horror comic going right now. For those that haven't been reading this series (and you really need to be), the undead apocalypse was started when Jughead tried to have Sabrina resurrect Hot Dog, his beloved pet who had been hit by a car. But Hot Dog came back as something...different. And with one bite, poor Jughead became the first of Riverdale's residents to turn. Since then a small group of friends have grouped together to try and stay alive,[...]
I am a lifelong gamer (since the days of Red Box D&D and the Atari 2600), and one of the ways I like to recharge my creative batteries is by immersing myself in a good video game. It probably comes as no surprise to you that horror games are among my favorites to play. I find that inhabiting a scary story is a great way to inspire my own creative process, and few experiences are as immersive and interactive as games. One of my absolute favorite series of all time is the Dead Space series, and in particular the first two games of that series. It's Ghost Month[...]
Today, we're taking a trip in the wayback machine, kids. We're going to head back to about 1982 or 83, when an early chapter in my horror-loving origin story was written. When a man by the name of Wade Denning scared the holy hell out of me and helped instill my fascination with all things macabre for the rest of my life. In 1975, Pickwick Records released "Famous Ghost Stories With Scary Sounds," a collection of short horror stories by the likes of Edgar Allan poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving and more. Denning--who was well-known for his commercial jingle[...]
First off--RIP Prince. There will never be another. Welcome to another installment of DIEmonds in the Rough, where we search for the bloody nougat center of awesomeness inside a hard shell of mediocrity. This week’s installment In Maximum Overdrive, a comet passes by earth and the planet ends up in the tail of it for a little over a week. During that time, the machines of the world--everything from electric steak knives to gas-powered lawnmowers--become sentient, and rebel against mankind. The movie was written and directed by Stephen King himself, and was ins[...]