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Review: Watcher
This is a good one. I came to watch “Watcher” by way of another movie. I happened across the serial killer short “Slut” on youtube and was impressed with its tense riff on the Red…
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Book review: Three-Fingered Willy by Neal McLaughlin
More comedy than horror, Three Fingered Willy draws inspiration from classic ’80s campground slashers—Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, etc.—while adding its own comic twists.If you like your horror bloody, you’ll be pleased that amid the…
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Review: Sputnik
Have you ever psychoanalyzed an alien? That’s the premise behind the Russian film “Sputnik” which was released in 2020. How does this situation come about? Two Russian cosmonauts are floating in space in the 1980s…
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Hell of a Summer
Early on in my viewing of “Hell of a Summer” I took a note that read: This is as if Woody Allen made a slasher. As the film went on, I realized that summation wasn’t…
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Truth or Dare (2017)
Many years back, with films like “Hostel” and the “Saw” series, we had the advent of what was called torture porn. This basically involved scenes of people being strapped down and gruesomely mutilated. With 2017’s…
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The Mouse Trap
If you’ve been following the world of horror entertainment, you’re aware there’s been a rise of films that take intellectual property recently deposited into the public domain as their source material. There was, for instance,…
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Book Review: “Strung” by Per Jacobsen
This one was discussed a while back and the premise intrigued me. A man returns from a vacation in isolation to discover his home town is now filled with hanging bodies. I don’t want to…
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Review: The Rule of Jenny Penn
This was an interesting one. I’ve seen comments from people online who were deeply unsettled by it, calling it “nightmare inducing.” My reaction was more like, “huh…” Is that because these people are sensitive crybabies…
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Review: Under the Shadow
Here’s an interesting biographical detail about me: as a kid, I lived in Iran for around six months. This was in the seventies, right before the Shah fell in the cultural revolution there. As such,…
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Book review: Dread House by A.C. Hessenauer
This is a great, gothic creepy read. I would call it horror-lite, more in line with a Daphne du Maurier or Riley Sager story. Our protagonist, Cassie, arrives at an estate where her friend Emily…
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Review: Mad Love
This is a strange little horror film from 1935. I was first drawn to it because of a famous still in which Peter Lorre looks like some kind of techno-mutant out of a Mad Max…
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Book Review: Killer Crush by Brooke Montoya
Trashy and fun This book reminded me of the erotica-thriller straight to video movies that appeared in the 80s and 90s. Lots of sex, plot twists, and morally compromised characters. Our protagonist, Miranda, is stuck…
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Review: Copycat
It’s probably no surprise why I would give “Copycat,” a serial killer movie from 1995, a review. Netflix has been putting it on blast and it’s in their top ten. I saw the movie when…
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Great review of “The Mirror Man” from Bibliophilia Templum.
Here’s the link https://bibliophiliatemplum.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/the-mirror-man/
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Review: Cure
Ever finished a movie and have no idea what you just watched? That’s Kiyoshi Kurasawa’s Japanese 1997 film “Cure” in a nutshell. Here’s the shape of the plot. A police detective is assigned to investigate…