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• The Power of

  

  One rare treat is rediscovering something that intrigued you as a young person, but which you’d completely forgot. Living in a small town and seldom going to... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Staunching Stigma

  

  Independence Day is not a great movie. As my readers know, that doesn’t stop me from watching. I’ve seen it a few times. Watching it post-UFO/AUP disclosure... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Peak Del Toro

  

  Crimson Peak is perhaps my favorite Guillermo del Toro movie. Gothic to the hilt, the story—a bit overwrought—features plenty of ghosts and a house appropriate... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Plea

  

  One literary Saturday recently I found myself in the attic.  When we first moved to this house I sometimes wrote up there but I quickly learned that with no... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Somehow Inevitable

  

  You had to expect me to write about Zontar: Thing from Venus. I bought the “Beast Collection” set to see it many years ago. In those days I tried to watch the... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pet Theory

  

  We don’t have any pets.  At least not beyond the spider near the sink that I don’t have the heart to release outdoors in winter temps.  But I have had. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Search Continues

  

  This movie’s so bad there’s a backstory. Years ago I was really wanting to see Zontar: Thing from Venus. This was before streaming, and I found it as part of th... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Weather Bugs

  

  In one part of my life (ahem) I’m compelled to use Microsoft Windows products.  (In my personal life I’ve used Macs since before 1990. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old Vampyr

  

  Early movies are fascinating. I learned of Vampyr, a 1932 production by Carl Theodor Dreyer, from Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu’s In Search of Dracula,... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Low Stakes

  

  Elsewhere on this website I refer to myself as an “unfluencer.” This quasi-serious attempt at humor does bear a kernel of truth. It’s difficult to get your voic... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Black History

  

  The first of the “blaxploitation” movies, Blacula is a period piece. In 1972 vampires were still all the rage, following from Dark Shadows and the continuing... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bibliographer for Hire

  

  Why is bibliographer not a job?  Why can’t a person make a living categorizing knowledge?  I ask this because I see YouTube videos of people saying your job... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Red Dress

  

  Horror sometimes takes a creative turn. In Fabric is an art film as well as a horror offering. The basic premise is that a certain red dress, sold at a bizarre... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Major Drum

  

  We don’t get out much.  Live shows can be expensive and these cold nights don’t exactly encourage going out after dark.  Living near a university, even if you... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Grown-up Jane

  

  Watching Stephen King’s list of scary movies in the 30 years prior to 1980, I’ve found one or two that hardly strike me as horror. Some of the others remain... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Poking Around

  

  I’ll always prefer indies but ever since James Daunt took over Barnes & Noble it’s become a much better place.  I unfortunately didn’t get to any of Daunt’s... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Like Father

  

  There’s just something about old movies. After Universal discovered that Depression-Era people would still pay to see scary movies, they made a kind of... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Afraid

  

  It’s something many of us do. Trying to explain why, while religious, spiritual, and moral, we find horror fascinating. I read Brandon Grafius’ Lurking under th... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Friendly

  

  A ghost-revenge story, online. Unfriended is one of those low-budget horror films that manages to be remarkably effective through the acting and its overall... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Trouble on Campus

  

  I know what it’s like to have a story living within you. Academics writing novels don’t always qualify as Dark Academia, but Kathleen Kelley Reardon’s Shadow... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY