Movies: Half-way through the morning of the fourth day of the week after the 6-month anniversary of the second Tuesday after the Day of the Woman. 21 Jan 2013 | 11:04 pm

I Spit On Your Grave, the 1978 revanchist rape exploiter that also traffics under the somewhat deceptive label Day of the Woman, reads better than it plays. This is because, in conversation and in wri...

Movies: Like a little lump of coal for your hoilday horror film stocking. 24 Dec 2012 | 10:30 pm

What actress reads a script that dispatches her by rape/murder-by-snowman's-nose-carrot and thinks, "All right! This is a film a have to be part of!"? That's not a rhetorical question. The answer is S...

Movies: The best worst plan in horror bad guy history. 15 Jul 2012 | 06:14 am

Shark Night 3D contains more than one shark and takes place over the course of more than one single night. That's really the only sense in which Shark Night can be said to exceed expectations. Almost...

"The lesson for everyone else: Never attempt to engage in any kind of outdoor physical activity, because traps are everywhere." 26 Apr 2012 | 03:51 am

As a horror blogger, I don't get a lot of opportunity to link to Gawker, but said site has taken a break from its normal flow of "President Garfield still dead" recycled news and breathless specula...

Music: The Wolfgangs, "Cannibal Family" 24 Apr 2012 | 07:10 am

So for the past month or so, I've been working on a entry pondering just how many people a cannibal clan would need to kill just to get the necessary calories in their diet. You'd be surprised at the ...

Movies: The second worst thing Bin Laden has ever done to us? 10 Feb 2012 | 11:12 am

What hath Kickstarter wrought? It's possible that you were tiring of the zombie craze. Perhaps you've got no more energy for a fast vs. slow zombie debates. Maybe you think that context shifts - zomb...

Don't apologize and never explain. 23 Dec 2011 | 03:37 pm

I'm not going to follow the very good advice in the title. I'm about to become a first time father and thing are crazy absurd at work. I'll leave you to determine whether these are valid reasons for r...

Art: Is this a bust or something? 10 Nov 2011 | 07:47 am

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The It's Alive Project, currently on display at the City Arts Factory in Orlando, FL, is a show of 80 Boris Karloff b...

Mad science: The snuggle of doom! 4 Nov 2011 | 07:57 am

The Psychologuist has a great info dump article on the psychology of horror that gives readers a nice survey of work in the field: from evolutionary developmental theories on uses of fear to theories ...

Random Picture #5: Zip lock. 30 Oct 2011 | 01:23 am