Ask a group of people what the “best of” may be in any given category and you’re likely to get a diversity of answers. Along with that may come a good deal of disagreement, and possibly controversy, especially if the answers are shared in a public forum. This is exactly the scenario that has taken place in [...]
I was asked by Vince Liaguno of Dark Scribe Magazine to be part of a discussion with a few fellow League of Tana Tea Drinkers (LOTTD) horror bloggers. The result is the “Dark Genre Roundtable” which can be found here. My thanks go to Vince and Dark Scribe for the interview and where I can [...]
Plenty of items will be “screened” here in the near future, and in this post I’ll share a few textual trailers to let readers know what to look forward to.
In addition to my own reflections and commentary several interviews will find their way here over the days and weeks to come. These include an interview [...]
Body Worlds is presently on display in Salt Lake City here in the state where I live. In case you haven’t heard of this before, Body Worlds is described as part art, part science, the brainchild of Gunther von Hagens. It involves the use of actual cadavers whose tissues have been injected with plastic in [...]
Since today being the 1st of October that means the month-long countdown to Halloween begins, and with it we ratchet up the celebration of the haunted and mystical season. With this post I will share three items that recently came across my desk for review, and which also represent October promotional items available for my readers.
The [...]
The Halloween season has already begun around the country, particularly in Utah. I have been enjoying the Michael’s store collection of the Lemax Spookytown items, and Walgreens now has their Halloween items displayed. I understand that Big Lots! has their’s in, and Wal-Mart and Target will soon follow suit. The hint of fall, and the [...]
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It had been some time since my family and I took in a movie at the theater. Normally we keep our eye out for advertisements of upcoming films, and then once a movie is released to DVD we make a trip to the nearest Redbox DVD rental location and for $1 we have a [...]
Hollywood, the film viewing public, and the special visual effects industry lost a pioneer and giant when Stan Winston passed away last Sunday at the age of 62 after a long battle with multiple myeloma. Stan hailed from Virginia and at an early age his love for Disney cartoons, Universal Studios classic monters, and Ray [...]
My friend Marc Lougee, producer of Ray Harryhausen Presents The Pit and the Pendulum, attended the Starfest Convention in Denver not long ago, and one of the people he introduced me to is Brad Rusk. Brad helps with the programming for the Horrorfest Convention part of Starfest, and he recently made some time to talk [...]
