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• Easter Gathering

  

  On Easter I’m thinking of Conclave. My wife had been wanting to see it and we watched it on Good Friday—a work day, of course, in this “Christian” nation. In an... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unusual Autopsy

  

  I avoided The Autopsy of Jane Doe for some time because, well, autopsy movies just aren’t my thing. Besides, I thought it might be a “true crime” sort of movie... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Space Rocks

  

  The thing from another world.  No, not the movie, but an artifact.  My recent post about the asteroid sent me looking for something. Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Horror Adjacent

  

  We have the basic facts, but still, it takes a good bit of imagination. We simply don’t know what the life of Mary Shelley was like, as experienced by the... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• To the Maxxx

  

  Okay, so Maxxxine will be difficult to discuss in my usual format here, but I’ll give it the old college try. Ti West is quite a stylist when it comes to... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Four-leaf Clover

  

  It was recently my late mother’s birthday.  I didn’t post about it on that that day since it might become a security question some day.  In any case, it was a... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Going Viral

  

  Okay, so there are some pretty big plot holes, but Viral is nevertheless an effective horror film. The “virus” is actually a parasite spread by blood, which... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remembering Consciousness

  

  I recently inadvertently read—it happens!—about anesthesia.  I’ve been relatively healthy for most of my adult life and have experienced anesthesia only for... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seeing the Forster

  

  The thing about exploring dark academia is that its recognition is fairly new. It seems that the “concept” emerged only ten years ago and the longer that it’s... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dark Smile

  

  Romance. It’s not the same thing as Romanticism, but it’s often part of drama. It can, and often does, feature in horror. Tender feelings toward someone we... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Craving Enchantment

  

  I really want to know, but just can’t figure out, how to write like Katherine May. My wife and I read her book Wintering and now have added Enchantment. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fabric of Time

  

  I’m not a sewer.  I mean, a person who sews.  I know people who are, though, who are quite distressed that JoAnn Fabrics is going out of business. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unholy Conception

  

  Religious horror is difficult to get right. Immaculate received reasonably positive reviews, and did well enough at the box office. Its message of women being... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Late Shift

  

  M. L. Rio is best known for If We Were Villains, a book I have on my shelf but haven’t read yet. She’s one of those rare PhDs who can write, and her punchy,... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Different Village

  

  If I’m honest I’ll admit that I first found out about John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos from The Simpsons. In one of the episodes, “Wild Barts Can’t Be Broken,... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Think

  

  Those of us who write books have been victims of theft.  One of the culprits is Meta, owner of Facebook.  The Atlantic recently released a tool that allows... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Different Lord

  

  I just wanted to learn the basic outline of Lord Byron’s life without having to commit to the hundreds of pages most of his biographies boast. Something brief,... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Special Delivery

  

  Deliver Us is a horror movie intentionally built around religion. It hasn’t been discussed much on the sites I frequent, but I suspect that it should be more. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cuckoo’s Roost

  

  John Wyndham is someone I discovered through movies. Often considered a science-fiction writer, his works cross over into horror, particularly on the silver... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bad Taste

  

  There is a reason for watching bad movies, apart from the fact that they’re often found streaming for free. Sometimes that reason is that they’re so bizarre tha... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY