31 Days of Horror: Day 28 – Twixt (2011)

I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. At this point, hoping for one more masterpiece from Francis Ford Coppola is probably an exercise in futility. He seems to have […]

31 Days of Horror: Day 19 – Scar (2007)

I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. Here’s the thing, folks: I can spend a few hundred words detailing everything wrong with the insipid and lazy piece of torture […]

31 Days of Horror: Day 9 – Wake Wood (2010)

I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. There is a difference between a film being economical in its storytelling and one that rushes through its story and character beats […]

From The Parallax Review Vaults: The Dark Half (1993)

The following review originally was written for The Parallax Review, a film review site of which I was the co-founder and managing editor. I have decided to collect the writings I did for The Parallax Review and preserve them here. I will be posting a few of these older pieces every week. My review of […]

The Cohen Case Files: A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987)

Executive Produced, Written (Also Story By), and Directed by Larry Cohen Any discussion of A Return to Salem’s Lot has to begin and end with Sam Fuller (yes, I am aware he is credited in most of his films as Samuel Fuller, but it seems wrong not to refer to him as Sam). A journalist, […]