The Ghost Writer

(The book.)  I picked up this red-faced beauty at an airport on my way home last winter. I had brought a few other novels with me, but I fell in love with this one, unsuspectingly, almost immediately upon opening.  Often, horror novels, a la my tried-and-true Stephen King, feel like a brutal one-night stand (Pet — read more

When I go to see a horror movie in theaters, ⅓ of what I’m excited for is to see what’s coming up next. Because regardless of how you feel about horror movies, horror trailers are objectively art. Take 28 Years Later. I know this is an unpopular opinion, and I’m happy to discuss it in — read more

Webster’s dictionary defines pontificate as: “to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way.” Sorry to start this one off like a bad bridesmaid’s speech. There are a lot of spoilers under here for Pontypool. Pontypool is genius because it’s constantly self-referential and repetitive, the thing itself that defines the virus of the movie. — read more

It had me in the first 6.5/8ths. Had me in the way sometimes, when I’m really hungry, I can eat most of a chocolate bar before I start to feel sick. I was hungry for horror this fall, and I’d literally never heard of Slasher before, so I decided to give it a shot, and — read more

What makes a classic a classic? Timeliness, certainly; when Norman Bates saying “And then her head” was about as graphic as things got.  But aside from that is the feeling, so central to everything I watch and read, that there will never be another original trope. Demon baby, haunted house, Oedipus complex, the unkillable, the — read more