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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…
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Review: Homecoming by Micah Castle
This is a tasty little novella about coming of age, family secrets, and learning that the people you grew up with are not what you thought. It reminded me of the great Jack Finney novel…
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Review: Hitchcock
Despite being a great director, Alfred Hitchcock has never gotten the biographical film he deserves. I was about 20 minutes into 2012’s “Hitchcock” when I realized I’d already seen it. But so little of the…
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Review: Mystic River
I’m a bit hit or miss with the films Clint Eastwood has directed. I liked “Unforgiven,” his 1992 Oscar winner. But he’s made a string of movies that I find too obvious in their themes…
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How does artificial intelligence view the world?
I recently learned about a concept in the world of philosophy, called the regression of interpretation. Essentially, it’s the idea that to define a word, you need to use other words, which themselves need to…
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Review: “The Terror of Willow Falls” by Jay Bower
I’ve been looking forward to reading Jay Bower’s “The Terror of Willow Falls“ and finished it last night. The set up is as follows: Young Joey and his family move from Chicago to a small…