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Double Features 007: Family Demons Edition

Welcome to Double Features! For these posts, I’ll watch two movies—maybe they are obviously related, maybe they’re not—and then I’ll decide whether they would make a good double feature. Starve Acre Year: 2023Runtime: 1h 38mRated: n/a Writer: Daniel Kokotajlo, Andrew Michael Hurley Director: Daniel KokotajloStars: Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards After a family tragedy, […]

Project Fangoria: Issue 10

Issue 10, January 1981 Despite the very reserved Scanners cover, the debate about splatter/gore horror continued in issue 10, especially in “The Postal Zone.” The response by the editorial staff: “If graphic horror is treated as if it were pornography, that is what it will become.” Instead, the magazine chooses to highlight the creativity that […]

Miscellanea, 7/27/25

What’s Been Happening? Listening To Lately Random Links Past Miscellany Writing Check-In I got a quick rejection on “Talking Skull.” It was kind of a calculated submission. There is a market opening on the 1st that I want to submit too and the previous market is known for their fast turn-around.

Double Features 006: Horror Comedy Edition

Welcome to Double Features! For these posts, I’ll watch two movies—maybe they are obviously related, maybe they’re not—and then I’ll decide whether they would make a good double feature. Satanic Panic Year: 2019Runtime: 1h 25mRated: not rated Writers: Grady Hendrix, Ted GeogheganDirector: Chelsea StardustStars: Hayley Griffith, Ruby Modine, Rebecca Romijn, Jerry O’Connell On her first […]

Reading Notes, 7/21/25

Currently Reading The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories I might have had a specific reason for putting The Weird on my library TBR list, but I don’t remember it now. Is there a story in its contents, mentioned in an article or essay, that I had decided would finally reveal to me […]

Double Features 005: Horror Anthology Edition

Welcome to Double Features! For these posts, I’ll watch two movies—maybe they are obviously related, maybe they’re not—and then I’ll decide whether they would make a good double feature. After Midnight Year: 1989Runtime: 1h 33mRated: R Writers: Ken Wheat & Jim WheatDirectors: Ken Wheat & Jim WheatStars: Marg Helgenberger, Jillian McWhirter, Ramy Zada Students of […]

Miscellanea, 7/17/25

What’s Been Happening? Took a nice trip to the library today. Well, actually, my bus luck was pretty bad, but I picked up a couple books, had a poppy seed muffin at the cafe, and generally chilled at the library for a few hours, which is probably my ideal state. I checked out Lost at […]

Reading Notes, 7/15/25

Previously Read The Decameron Project This is an anthology put together by The New York Times Magazine in 2020. They invited authors to submit short stories about the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. The original Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio was written in the mid-1300s. Its frame story is that a group “sheltering-in-place” outside of plague-ridden Florence tell […]

Double Features 004: Tom Savini Edition

Welcome to Double Features! For these posts, I’ll watch two movies—maybe they are obviously related, maybe they’re not—and then I’ll decide whether they would make a good double feature. Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini Year: 2015Runtime: 1h 31mRated: not rated Director: Jason Baker Smoke and Mirrors is a nice documentary about the […]

Miscellanea, 7/11/25

What’s Been Happening? We’re heading into the doldrums: air-conditioned day/nights, the constant drone of fans, a sky so clear and blue it’s scary. Finding July fields for ultimate frisbee has been a challenge. Between some of our usual sports parks being closed for summer maintenance and a lost reservation form, VOTS has been left with […]