The Loneliness of Dying in ‘Alien 3’Alien is widely regarded as one of the best science fiction/horror movies of all time, if not the best. Aliens is widely regarded as one of…Dec 16, 2024Dec 16, 2024
The Repressed Paganism of ‘Rawhead Rex’Clive Barker blew the Splatterpunk movement wide open when his Books of Blood turned him into an overnight success. These days it’s almost…Nov 22, 2024Nov 22, 2024
Wild Men: Masculinity in ‘Harry and the Hendersons’For the most part, Bigfoot has had it pretty rough in his cinematic career. While there are some gems out there — both ones that have…Nov 21, 2024Nov 21, 2024
HBO’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…Nov 19, 2024Nov 19, 2024
Spidey, 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…Nov 18, 2024Nov 18, 2024
Damned 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 13, 2024Nov 13, 2024
Short 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 12, 2024Nov 12, 2024
Grief, 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 8, 2024Nov 8, 2024
Like 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 7, 202424Nov 7, 202424
‘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 5, 2024Nov 5, 2024
