Premise: A bartender seemly content with his life of waiting- waiting for his love to wake out of a coma, waiting to move on with his mediocre life – is challenged by a note found on his car: An ultimatum that forces him to choose between the lives of two people he doesn’t know. The…
Read more#day5 #31daysofhorror “Final Girls” by Riley Sager
Premise: The media labels female survivors of horrific massacres as Final Girls. Quincy, Sam and Lisa are different in every way except they each survived their own brush with death. When Lisa dies, Sam is unexpectedly impacted. When fellow survivor, Quincy, shows up out of the blue to shake up her world, Sam stills reliving…
Read more#Day4 #31daysofhorror A Review of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Premise: The Graveyard Book traces the story of the boy Nobody “Bod” Owens who is adopted and reared by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered. (Wikipedia) What I Like: I don’t know how this book was suggested to me. I don’t generally read Young Adult fiction, because some…
Read more#day3 #31daysofhorror A Movie Review of Malignant (2021)
#day3 #31daysofhorror Premise: Paralyzed by fear from shocking visions, a woman’s torment worsens as she discovers her waking dreams are terrifying realities. What I Liked: Have you even wondered what it’s like to walk backwards? Not just walk backwards. Climb things. Punch people. Kill scores of thems. All while moving backwards. The physics behind that…
Read more#Day2 #31daysofhorror Review of “The Light House” (2019)
#day2 #31daysofhorror reviews. The Light House (2019) was produced by the studio (A24) that brought us the acclaimed The Witch and Hereditary. So the bar is set high. Premise: Two men must work at a light house. One clings to superstition and prone to soliloquies and story telling, and the second is treated like a…
Read moreAn M. J. Cross Movie Review: Hungry Wives
We start Day One of #31daysofhorror with Season of the Witch (1973) (originally released under the name Hungry Wives.) Either title was bound to grab attention. Premise: A disaffected house wife finds allure and horror as she dabbles with witchcraft. What I Liked: I really like horror films that adjacently tackles the horrors faced by…
Read moreWho’s Watching American Horror Stories?
The creators of American Horror Story have decided that the fad of episodes confined to a season’s theme was so yesterday. Usher in American Horror Stories (#ahstories or #AHSs), one off stories connected to the bigger FXmultiverse. I’m glad American Horror Story is back. It’s absent during this pandemic was felt. The original anthology series…
Read moreAstro City: Black Horror Webseries Ep 7 “Expose” ACT 2
ACT 2, SCENE 1 INT: CHANNEL 8 NEWS – OFFICE MELISSA DAY is sitting at her desk, staring blankly at her computer screen. She’s reading a recent headline – “Gruesome murder in the Bricks” She clicks out of the screen and reads an article about the weather instead. MAIL CLERK enters her office and hands…
Read moreAstro City: Black Horror Webseries, Ep 6 “Ties” Act 4
ACT 4, SCENE 1 INT: BUTLER HOME – KITCHEN – LATE AFTERNOON The house is quiet. The kitchen is dirty with soaked papers and wet floor. A phone starts to ring. CUT TO ACT 4, SCENE 2 INT: BUTLER HOME – STAIRS – SAME The phone ringing gets stronger upstairs. We also hear heavy sobbing….
Read moreAstro City: Black Horror Webseries, Ep 6 “Ties” Final Act
ACT 5, SCENE 1, INT: APARTMENT – NIGHT ROMEO is strapped to a chair with a lot of duct tape. His arms are tied up behind the chair. His legs are taped to the chair legs. His mouth is covered with duct tape that goes around his head. His forehead is bruised and bleeding. His…
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