Everyone, we're joined via Chat by none other than creative genius, actor, and one of my favorite humans, LOTTA LOSTEN! Good afternoon Lotta! Lotta Losten (LL): Hello!!! Thank you so much letting me drag you into this chat room. LL: It’s my pleasure! I have wanted to pick your brain ever since I showed your original Lights Out short film to my writing students. LL: I remember that you told us that you showed it to your students when all of that happened and it made us SO happy! Pick away! I'm honored. Yes! A few of them were struggling with brevity in thei[...]
0 Are you ready to tour the web with Faith’s Favorite Frights? It’s Wednesday, and I’m your undead host. Let's start with a read, shall we? I have two for you this week. First off, you need to read this short story by Gwendolyn Kiste. Do you like vampires? How do you feel about Dracula? Even those unfamiliar with Dracula will find something to love in this Bram Stoker winning short story. Stop what you're doing and go read The Eight People Who Murdered Me right now. I'll wait for you here. Halloween Fiend is a fun novella if you enjoy a Hallowe[...]
Welcome to May! It is my pleasure to invite you to this month's Midnight Society Movie Night and my live-tweet of The Room! Ever since seeing trailers for this movie, I have wanted to see it, but haven't. So, what better way to enjoy the experience than to watch it for the first time than with all my horror friends. All in the safety and comfort of our own homes! With our jam-jams and snacks and couches and blankets... Let's watch The Room! Poster for the ShudderTV movie The Room Directed and written by Christian Volckman, The Room premiered on Ap[...]
About a week ago, I finished the first draft of my middle grade horror manuscript Nightmare Garden. I know. I like the title too. The beginning of my middle grade horror manuscript Nightmare Garden So what makes my words middle grade horror? Do I even know what I'm doing? Yes. Mostly. And these are all my opinions, for I'm no expert. I love reading middle grade, so why not write it? I wrote Nightmare Garden because my first adventure into the land of MG was so much fun. Well, fun...and painful...and frustrating...and fun. Middle grade, my happy[...]
It's Camp Nano time, and if you're writing horror like all of us here at the Midnight Society, you need some good music to write to. I tend to flip between horror movie and video game soundtracks, and one of my absolute faves is on Spotify now, so you can check it out for free--the soundtrack for 2015's Dying Light. The soundtrack, composed by Pawel Blaszczak, is like a modern John Carpenter movie score. The main theme creepy, while making you want to go out and kick zombie ass at the same time. Many of the tracks are variations on that core theme, and[...]
We Go On, an intriguing indie horror film on ShudderTV! With all the craziness in the world right now, Midnight Society Movie Night makes me happy. A chance to watch a movie with my scary-loving friends is just what I need. So let's watch We Go On! Some doors should never be opened. 2016 movie We Go On poster This movie, written and directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton (also known for The Witch in the Window), appeared at film festivals around the world in 2016. Now on DVD and ShudderTV. Seriously, ShudderTV has offered me so many titles I wo[...]
Social distancing may not be everyone's personal favorite, but my entire life has led to this. Don't get me wrong. I am outgoing. I can be very loud. I even love hosting parties of somewhere between twelve to fourteen people. But I'm still very much an introvert. It just takes me thirteen thousand bajillion trillion times as long to decompress and recoup from things. However, I'm related by lots of blood to lots outgoing extroverts and have made them watch A LOT of movies with me. Mostly during one of my M. Night Shyamalan-a-thons. And I have learned SO MA[...]
I fly a decent amount for work now, and it’s one of the few times I can catch up on some of the newer horror flicks, as well as old classics that make their way to in-flight entertainment services. Welcome to another installment of Airplane Movie Reviews. I'd heard a lot of good things about Ready or Not, and for the most part, the movie is a fun, thriller-comedy featuring a great performance by Samara Weaving. But I can't help comparing it to 2011's You're Next, and in that comparison, Ready or Not falls very short. https://youtu.be/ZtYTwUxhAoI Rea[...]
Tis the first Friday in the month, which means I talk about which horror movie I'll be live-tweeting! Join me in watching the 1980 film The Changeling! Movie poster from the 1980 horror movie The Changeling On a quest to find all the horror I've missed in life, I scrolled through Shudder TV, found this movie, and wondered why I hadn't seen it. You read correctly, I have not seen this movie. I'm also shocked. The Changeling, a 1980 Canadian supernatural/psychologcal/horror movie, directed by Peter Medak, story by Russell hunter, and screenplay by Will[...]