Nat BrehmerHBO’s ‘Spawn’ Remains an All-Timer Comic Book AdaptationLike many growing up in the ’90s, I was a huge Spawn kid. So were my friends. We read the comics religiously and passed them between each…1d ago1d ago
Nat BrehmerSpidey, the Night Stalker: Revisiting 1977’s ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’At this point in time, it’s hard to imagine more than three or four years going by without a Spider-Man movie. This year has produced zero…2d ago2d ago
Nat BrehmerDamned Campers: Examining ‘Friday the 13th: Church of the Divine Psychopath’In 2005, we received a crude, hyper-violent, exceptional splatterpunk horror novel. It was gleefully mean-spirited, with a jet-black sense…Nov 13Nov 13
Nat BrehmerShort Fiction: ‘The Silver Moon Motel’“The Silver Moon Motel” first appeared as one of the few original stories in my book Dead Ends, which was primarily a collection of stories…Nov 12Nov 12
Nat BrehmerGrief, Empathy and Why Illyria Was One of the Best Characters on ‘Angel’Angel made many drastic changes to the status quo throughout its five-year run, but none more than in the final season. After spending the…Nov 8Nov 8
Nat BrehmerLike Busboys in a Restaurant: Mourning Innocence in ‘Stand by Me’Stand by Me is my favorite film, though it is admittedly tied for that position with John Carpenter’s Halloween. This is the film that…Nov 7Nov 7
Nat Brehmer‘Saga of the Swamp Thing’ and the Horror of HumanityEvery comic book hero undergoes a transformation, whether it be internal or external. Spider-Man was bitten by a radioactive spider…Nov 5Nov 5
Nat BrehmerHope, Allegory, and Embracing the Jewish Roots of SupermanSuperhero stories, especially films, are loaded with Christ allegory. From Daredevil to Spider-Man to Wolverine, we’re almost always bound…Nov 4Nov 4
Nat Brehmer“Make Me Wanna Die”: Modernizing Gothic Tradition in the Music of The Pretty RecklessIn the introduction to his first short story collection, Night Shift, Stephen King wrote that “the great appeal of horror fiction through…Oct 31Oct 31
Nat BrehmerArchetypes and Urban Folklore in John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’Halloween is a simple story. That’s the first thing its detractors tend to point out, but it’s also the thing that makes it so endearing…Oct 31Oct 31
