Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat (2007) is less a movie and more being shoved into a Party City in late September. It is a haunted hayride where you’re not entirely sure all the people on the trail are actors. It is lighting a three-wick candle that has a […]
It’s October, and at this, the Halloweeniest of times, my mind reliably turns to Tim Burton. It will be an especially Tim Burton Halloween for us this year because my son has decided he wants to dress up as one of the gorgon twins from Miss Peregrine’s Home […]
Halloween looms, my dreadful darlings, have you considered your seasonal reading? Perhaps in your secret heart, not the one in your chest, but the one you have sealed in a cast glass jar and hidden high on a shelf in a cobwebbed attic or buried beneath the gelid […]
SF/F Editor Keith has wandered into the woods and we’re not sure where or what time he’ll even come out. Except that he’ll definitely be back here next month. In the meantime, enjoy this piece he wrote on American Sci-Fi Folk Horror. I’ve spent the latter half of […]
What if James Bond went to Bombay in the late 1970s and wasn’t so much a secret agent as a stylist and interior designer for a particularly aesthetics-oriented villain? The plot of Shaan has very little to do with any of the Bond films that I can remember. […]
“Jason X is my favorite episode of Andromeda.” – Carol Borden “Honey, this is bad. This is Space Mutiny bad.” – my husband “Guys, he just wanted his machete back!” – actual dialogue from Jason X After enough sequels that you might lose count of which Friday the […]
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