Snow definitely had the most interesting and surprising monsters in any book that we’ve read this semester. We’ve read about werewolves, vampires, and zombies and I thought that was really all that monsters entailed. I was very wrong. Everyday innocuous things can become monsters too. In Snow the monsters were inside the snow. I never even imagined ( Read more... )

John Carpenter’s The Thing is one of the most difficult movies to get your hands on. My town, like many now, doesn’t have a video store. There used to be five within a ten-mile radius and now there is nothing but red rental boxes with recent releases in them. I tried all the local stores; none of them carried it for purchase. I even had a friend ( Read more... )

I think this was a great book. It really felt like the author made the movie script adaptation his own.  Jonathan Mayberry really did a good job of evoking the emotions that I believe readers should feel when reading horror. I was scared, enthralled and disgusted at various times. We want to feel for the characters, we want to experience their ( Read more... )

I have a list of movies that I hope to see someday. This listing includes movies I’ve read about or heard about that interest me in some way. I keep the list handy so I am sure to try to find one of these movies to check out. This list is much like my books to read list in its scope and length. I know that I probably couldn’t get through either ( Read more... )

Here’s a soapbox moment: The scope of this movie is something that is unequaled today. I personally think that one of the worst things to happen to modern cinema is the inundation of computer generated graphics. Sure, they help when things get kind of dicey for the production staff, they can be used in the right manner without being showy and over ( Read more... )

I was very excited to read this novel. This book piqued my interest sometime before Thanksgiving last year when my cousin suggested I pick it up. At the time, I was in the mystery classics class and was unable to muster through those stories much less read something else. I knew if I picked up something that really interested me, I’d have a hard ( Read more... )

So, my seemingly eternal trek to find an enjoyable Clive Barker story is sort of continued. I didn’t dislike this story as much as I found I disliked “Rawhead Rex,” but I can’t say that I really enjoyed it either. I think the reason for that was the ho hum nature of the story and the lack of a character that I could root for.

First, the ho hum ( Read more... )

I find it a little hard to write a blog post that has to be longer than this story felt. This is a complement, not a criticism because I didn’t go into this book thinking I’d finish it in one sitting, but I did. I couldn't put it down. It was a fun and rather exciting way to experience this story. I would suggest that anyone who has not read this ( Read more... )

I want to first admit that I’ve never really been a Barker fan. I know he’s a quintessential horror author, one that everyone is supposed to read, but I never really got into his style. I read required stuff previously from Books of Blood and didn’t really enjoy it. The story that sticks out the most is “Dread.” The story is about a psychotic guy ( Read more... )

Breeding Ground was an interesting novel to read. I liked the premise, although, having a pregnant wife didn’t make the opening of this novel easy to read. I would read some, then put my hand on my wife’s belly and feel our son kicking and think it was some spider thing eating her from the inside out. Because of that, this book was all the more ( Read more... )