Franchise Fanatic: Scream
Or, a small love letter to Wes Craven.
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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House
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August 4, 2020
July 28, 2020
I Finally Watched Jupiter Ascending (And I Fucking Love It)
Is this maybe my new favourite movie?
July 25, 2020
OCD, Scary Movies, and Me
Or, how having an anxiety disorder made me seek out the most anxious films in existence.
July 25, 2020
Lost S1E22: Born to Run
Dammit, Lost might just be going out on a high.
July 21, 2020
A Bountiful Bound Through Brilliant Body Horror Movies
You know when you look in the mirror and think “shit, I should write something about body horror!”
July 20, 2020
The Very Best and the Very Worst of Every Doctor’s Run on Doctor Who
You know, my deliciously brilliant co-writer has been doing a series on this blog about the very best and the very worst of Monster of the Week episodes of his beloved The X-Files. And it’s gotten me thinking about my own favourite shows, especially those with a similar format – science-fiction, horror, one-off monsters….
July 15, 2020
The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: Hungry
Season seven of The X-Files is the last of the original run to feature both Mulder and Scully as the main protagonists. A combination of David Duchovny’s fatigue with the role of Mulder, and the fact that he was suing the network for unpaid royalties, meant that he would spend season eight in the margins of the show before leaving for good at the beginning of season nine, only to appear for the last episode. It’s fitting, then, that for my favourite season seven monster of the week I chose an episode in which Mulder and Scully barely appear at all. After the break of season six’s Triangle, I’m back to being Vince Gilligan’s hype man: let’s talk about Hungry.
July 14, 2020
The Most Iconic Horror Villains, Ranked
In which I dunk on Jason Voorhees, for good reason.
July 10, 2020
I Watched Grease for the First Time
I just love this article a lot
July 7, 2020
A Haul of Haunted House Horror
Ghost, ghouls, and generational trauma!
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