ReviewHorror
Burnt Offerings (1976) (dvd/Blu-ray film review).
Before the Rolf family, Ben (actor Oliver Reed) and Marion (actress Karen Black) and son Davey (actor Lee Montgomery), can rent an isolated…
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ReviewHorror
Disturbed Digest # 14 – September 2016 (emag review).
‘Disturbed Digest’ is a magazine of fiction and poetry – lots of poetry! – but I will concentrate on the fiction. ‘Mind Over…
ReviewScifi
The Tourist by Robert Dickinson (book review).
With Robert Dickinson’s novel, ‘The Tourist’, you are thrown in at the deep end and have to work out what is going on…
NewsHorror
The Monster (2016) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Bryan Bertino directs ‘The Monster’, a suspenseful horror film about a mother and daughter stranded at night on a deserted road. Their car…
NewsHorror
Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween (film review by Frank Ochieng)
For those so-called devoted Tyler Perry fans out there wondering why it took so long to bring back their favorite sassy gun-toting grandma…
ReviewComics
The MLJ Companion by Rik Offenberger, Paul Castiglia & Jon B. Cooke (book review).
Back in the 60s, very little of the Archie Comics range reached British shores beyond their comedy material and I didn’t even think…
NewsHorror
Shin Godzilla (2016) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Japan assesses its relation to the rest of the world and its relation to itself and its culture in a reboot of the…
ReviewCulture
Green Screen Made Easy by Jeremy Hanke and Michele Yamaxaki Terpstra (book review).
This is an updated edition of ‘Green Screen Made Easy’ by Jeremy Hanke and Michele Yamaxaki Terpstra. As they say in the introduction,…
ReviewBooks
How To Draw Steampunk by Bob Berry, Joey Marsocci & Allison Deblasio (book review).
If you’re of a particular age, you will remember those massive but thin A3-sized Walter Foster published artbooks. Like me, you probably still…
ReviewScifi
Crossing In Time (Volume 1 of the Between Two Evils series) by DL Orton (book review).
‘Crossing In Time’ is book 1 of the ‘Between Two Evils’ series of books by DL Orton and there’s going to be at…
ReviewHorror
The Burning Steelbook (1980) (film Blu-ray review).
[I should point out that the film title is ‘The Burning’ (1980), the ‘Steelbook’ is what its contained in although as an advance…
ReviewFantasy
The Bewilderment A Hipposync Archives Novel (The Hippsync Archives) by D.C. Farmer (book review).
Bobby Miracle, the joint lead character in ‘The Bewilderment’, sometime Goth and sometime intern, realises she has blown her assignment. She’s about to…