A family tragedy compels a young couple to trade their city life for one in the country. They end up purchasing a secluded house, complete with no internet, gas, or the utilities that most of us can’t live without. To make matters worse, the house […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVTruth or Dare, the directorial debut from ascending scream queen Jessica Cameron, is one of those rare movies that inspires an irrational compulsion to bathe. In fact, this reviewer’s thoughts became sanitarily grandiose after watching this exercise in sadistic cinema. A hot shower? A man-sized […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVGODZILLA (2014): “Return of the King” “History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of man…” —Godzilla Blue Oyster Cult If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. A trite cliché, but one that applies most definitely to this year’s reboot […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVAll our legends die. One day, Savage Readers, we’ll sign on to Facebook and find out that Stephen King, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, and John Carpenter are crafted of the same mortal maggot-meat we all are. On May 12th, Swiss artist Hans Rudolf Giger died […]
Featured ArticleHunting after the obscure and arcane has always been a fixture of the horror genre. That’s why Peter Straub’s Mr. X is an apt metaphor for the entire experience of reading horror fiction: we, the readers, look for the mysterious man (or woman) behind the […]
Authors Books & ComicsWhat can go wrong when a group of teenagers retreats to a secluded cabin for a vacation filled with sexual tension and mind-altering substances? Director Richard Gray’s The Evil Within promises to answer this perennial question for the horror-hungry masses on May 6th. Luckily, as […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVFrom the darkness has curiosity ever reached out and struck you? Has it caused you to wonder about your favorite genre writers and what’s on their bookshelves? It’s reached out and struck me. Do they have some classic pulp detective novels? What about graphic novel […]
Authors Books & Comics“Seven dreamers…” Like most horror fanatics, Alien was my first venture into the world of science-fiction terror. The film evokes such an inky black feeling of dread and tension, it remains to this day a film that sticks with me days after I re-watch it. […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsDirected by Jason M. Koch with a script from Mark Leake, 7th Day is a brutally dark character study that follows Allen Dean (Mark S. Sanders) through seven days of his life. Allen is a middle-aged man who lives in the house where he grew […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVI have a soft spot for the weird, the gonzo, the high-concept, and Christian Grillo’s Apocalypse Kiss is unashamedly all three. Set in a dystopian year 2050 in which mega-corporation Horn Industries has merged with the United States government, dividing the country into an affluent […]
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