Steveawiggins

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• Don’t Stop Moving

  

  Stopmotion is a strangely affecting horror movie. Body horror as well as Euro-horror, it follows the dream-like world of Ella, a stop motion animator. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Routine Weirdness

  

  I’m weird.  Nobody has to tell me that.  Like most people, I suspect, with my mental condition, I value routine.  Although the time I post on this blog varies,... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Frightening

  

  Years ago a friend, which I define as someone who wishes me no specific bodily harm, suggested I watch The Frighteners. It finally came to a free streaming... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evolution of Psychology

  

  We are a fragile species.  Those of us who experienced childhood trauma carry it all our lives, even if it only seems to pop out unexpectedly from time to time.... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mirroring Reality

  

  I watched Oculus for two reasons: it kept coming up as a “freebie” on a service I use, and I’d been thinking about haunted mirrors. Well, three reasons—I also... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Author Pages

  

  It takes me awhile, sometimes.  Maybe it’s a generational thing.  I’ve been blogging for sixteen years now (my blog is a teenager! Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hungry Madness

  

  It’s been on my wishlist of movies to watch for a few years, In the Mouth of Madness. A tribute to Lovecraftian horror, as well as a probing of insanity, it is ... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hallowed Halls

  

  Every time I read a short story collection I tell myself I should do so more often. Knowing that you’re only committing yourself for maybe thirty or forty... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• House Spiders

  

  I give them names, the spiders who choose to live in our house.  That’s how I named Henry, shown in the photo.  I grew up with an almost debilitating... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Colorful Space

  

  Lovecraftian horror translates to film unevenly. Even when it’s successful, as in Color Out of Space, it really isn’t that close to reading Lovecraft. “The... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unwritten

  

  It has been clear to me for some time now that I won’t live long enough to finish all the books I’m writing in my head.  A good number of them have a head... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Friendly Fear

  

  I opened my book Holy Horror with an epigraph taken from Apocalypse Now, a movie I recently watched again. That quote was from Col. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• University Death

  

  This is an important and thoroughly depressing book. Despite globalization, I fear that a book from down under might fail to be readily found in the United... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• See Monsters

  

  I have a soft spot for seventies movies, but I can’t decide if The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is horror or not. I found it on a horror list, and... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gothic Novelties

  

  I’m a sucker for a good gothic novel. Dilapidated houses on the moors, suggestions of ghosts, the kind of encompassing darkness that enfolds you. Women facing... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eye Eye

  

  When trying to be conscientious about not spending too much money on movies there’s always the risk of seeing something cheap. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Little Things

  

  Those on anti-clutter campaigns (whose lives I can’t imagine) claim that we have too much stuff.  That may be true, but when you reach a certain age these reali... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Good Hearts

  

  If you’re looking for more religion-based horror, you might try the 1987 film Angel Heart. As I’m discovering quite a bit lately, I could’ve used this one in... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eschew Stupidity

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a certified evangelical Christian.  His theology often feels a bit pat to some of us who work in religious studies, but there’s no... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remembering Winter

  

  There’s a deep satisfaction at attaining a goal, no matter how low the bar. Having rediscovered the “Beast Collection” after looking to see if Snowbeast was on... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY