Pages Tagged “Horror”
Reviews
- Agatha All Along ★★★★★ The best Marvel TV I’ve seen since the first seasons of Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Solid cast, with Sixth Sense-level twists that grow organically over the course of the show.
- Bride of Frankenstein It’s interesting to see just how much of the Frankenstein mythos not only isn’t in the book, but isn’t in the first movie.
- The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
★★★★★
Mira Grant
Seared into my memory. Cascading failures as zombies attack an elementary school. Well-written, but I never, ever want to read it again. - Doom Patrol ★★★★☆ An absurd, character-focused, darkly humorous, psychological take on people with the super-power/body horror combo.
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones
★★★★★
Seanan McGuire
Creepy tale of twins transported to a world out of 1930s monster movies. Hangs together better than the first book. - Dracula
★★★★★
Bram Stoker
The original Dracula is a great read, not just for the way it codified modern vampire lore, but the way it’s built as a collection of letters, diary entries, and so on. - From Hell (Movie) ★★★☆☆ A fairly decent Jack the Ripper film (if there is such a thing), but tossed out the main themes of the graphic novel.
- House of Frankenstein A rather disjointed tale of revenge focusing on Dracula in one segment, the Wolfman in the other, and not much on Frankenstein’s monster.
- In the Shadow of Spindrift House
★★★★☆
Mira Grant
Imagine the Scooby-Doo gang encountering a Lovecraftian horror in Hill House. They manage about as well as you might expect. - Invasive
★★★★☆
Chuck Wendig
Swarms of killer ants genetically altered to target humans are as much nightmare fuel as you would expect. - iZombie (graphic novels)
A horror/comedy that ranges from Scooby Doo to Lovecraft by way of Moorcock, featuring thinking zombies, vampires who run paintball, ghosts, secret societies, and a were-terrier. Off the wall concepts and a clean, sharp art style that contrasts with the monsters and gore. The TV series was loosely based on these comics. - Overgrowth
Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the POV of an alien plant person who grew up human. Now the invasion has started, and she’s sorting out friends, family, and who she can trust from either planet. - Unofficial Trilogy of Cheese The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Van Helsing, and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow should make a trilogy of sorts.
Blog Posts
- The Color out of Cyberspace
The Verge ponders: Has the internet been overtaken by the eldritch horror of Yog-Sothoth? Weâve got this dimension right next to ours, that extends across the entire planet, and it is just brimming with nightmares. We have spambots, viruses, ransomware, this endless legion of malevolent entities that are blindly probing us for weaknesses, seeking only […]
- Newsflesh: Worst Case Zombies, Best Case Survival
Mira Grant’s Newsflesh features the worst-case scenario of zombie design, yet humanity survives with civilization mostly intact.Thatââ¬â¢s really optimistic.
- Do Not Taunt the Octopus
Some thoughts on Mira Grant’s latest Newsflesh novella exploring the post-zombie world, and some parallels to Scalzi’s Lock-In.
- Vampires, Werewolves, What’s the Difference?
Overheard two small children outside grocery store: “Look, it’s a full moon!” “That means the vampires are gonna come out!”
- Language!
User Friendly on tech support, Wondermark and Girl Genius on books, close-up comet photos, star trails, cyber security, iPhone vs. Android vs. Blackberry, and more.
- On Army of Darkness
I finally watched Evil Dead 2, and got to thinking about just what makes the trilogy different from other 1980s horror series.
- Mary Shelley’s Bride of Frankenstein
I’ve been working my way through the classic Universal Frankenstein movies, some of which I’m sure I’ve seen before, and some of which I’m sure I haven’t. Of course, they get filtered through having read the book at least three times and having watched Young Frankenstein many times. Last weekend I watched Bride of Frankenstein. […]
- Mnemovore Mnastiness
Mnemovore #5 came out this week. (For some reason issue #4 shipped twice—once just before Comic-Con and again last week.) This week’s issue, or at least my copy, has a strange quirk to it. Some of the word balloons are faded, as if a rubber stamp was pushed down with unequal force, or as if […]
- V for Visceral
Rob Zombie on movie ratings, toning villains down too far, and the difference between showing violence toward unknown actors or celebrities.
- Well, that sucks.
Miss two weeks and they pull the rug out from under you: …the cast, crew, writers and producers of Angel deserve to be able to wrap up the series in a way befitting a classic television series and that is why we went to Joss to let him know that this would be the last […]