by Dave | Dec 1, 2015 | Sidenotes |
Many thanks to everyone who submitted short stories for the Wax & Wane anthology. We have been really pleased with the variety of submissions received, and with the excellence of so many of them. We think this is going to be an outstanding anthology. From a Coven...
by Dave | Nov 25, 2015 | TV Reviews |
“Penny Dreadful” is one of my favorite shows currently on television, and I’m very glad that Showtime is going to deliver a third season. There’s something gleefully lurid about the Gothic melodrama, which relishes bathing the audience in...
by Dave | Nov 8, 2015 | Sidenotes |
I just read that Gunnar Hansen died at 68 years of age. Few people have ever been more iconic to Horror as Hansen’s incarnation of Leatherface in Tobe Hooper’s original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974). It remains a deserved classic of the...
by Dave | Nov 2, 2015 | Sidenotes |
I love Halloween. Even as a grown-up, Halloween forever is a highlight of my calendar. I like the autumn chill in the air and the magical spirit of the days. Most amusing for me is how effective the simple sheet ghost costume is. I’ve worn the sheet ghost...
by Dave | Oct 29, 2015 | Sidenotes |
Always eager to read a haunted house story, I picked up David Mitchell’s new book, “Slade House.” I haven’t begun to read it, yet, but once I do, I’ll review it on this site. I’m always a sucker for haunted house tales, I have to...
by Dave | Oct 17, 2015 | Movie Reviews |
Okay, so if you are of the delicate constitution that is spoiler-averse, consider yourself warned, as there are some slight spoilers below… I caught Guillermo del Toro’s CRIMSON PEAK today, and I’d say that I think people may enjoy it if they go into...
by Dave | Oct 16, 2015 | Sidenotes |
I’m looking forward to catching CRIMSON PEAK this weekend, although the reviews I read seem to indicate that it’s a lavish and beautiful production that isn’t ultimately terribly scary. It appears to be less a horror movie as a paranormal romance of...
by Dave | Oct 14, 2015 | Sidenotes |
I love the story The Atlantic ran about the mysterious star the Kepler Space Observatory had discovered. I won’t rehash what the story was on it (you can click the link above for that), and it’s surely a longshot — but it’s fascinating that the...
by Dave | Oct 8, 2015 | Movie Reviews |
I caught Swedish Death/Doom Metal band, Ghost over the weekend at the Riv, on a US tour around their third album, Meliora. They played to a sold-out, all ages show, and owned the room. Purson opened for them, did their own credible neo-psychedelic rock music...
by Dave | Oct 5, 2015 | Movie Reviews |
I caught “The Martian” over the weekend, in a well-packed theater, and while I found it a reasonably entertaining fusion of, say, “Castaway” and “Apollo 13,” I wasn’t blown away by it. I’m still mentally processing why...
by Dave | Oct 3, 2015 | Sidenotes |
“Goodnight Mommy” was definitely a creepy and different type of horror movie, and what an opportunity for women to do a fab Halloween costume — you get to be Mummy Dearest! To be “Mother” as a costume idea is so simple and effective in...
by Dave | Oct 3, 2015 | Movie Reviews |
I caught the wicked horror-thriller, “Goodnight Mommy” at the Music Box Theater last night, and I have to say that the movie was a fiendish little fairy tale. I use that term “fairy tale” in the fullest sense of the term, for this story is a...
