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…
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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…
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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 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…
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#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…
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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 moreWe don’t get many speculative fiction about pre-colonial villages, which is it a shame, because when it’s down well, (see: The Witch and The Crucible, it’s a master piece of terror and storytelling. That time period is rift with subject to illicit fear, because the settlers and pilgrims were literally scared of everything, every thought,…
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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 morePremise: The trilogy continues where it left off. There’s even a ‘previously on’ montage. The survivors of the massacre back in 1994 continue their quest to break the Curse of the Witch of Shadyside by speaking to one woman who survived a previously mentioned massacre at Camp Nightwing in 1978. This is her story. DUHDUH!…
Read moreACT 5, SCENE 1 INT: SISTER’S HOME – BASEMENT – NIGHT SISTER struggles to pull a lifeless LEIGH up the steps. SISTER (mumbling to herself): Son of a…What the hell did I do? We had a plan, Sister. Right? Sister? What the hell did I do! CUT TO, ACT 5, SCENE 2 INT:…
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