Ari Aster’s hotly-anticipated follow-up to Hereditary is a hallucinatory fever dream that fuses coming-of-age drama with vintage occult horror.
Horror
NIGHTMARE CINEMA worth price of admission [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionNightmare Cinema is a love letter to horror movies that may make you never want to set foot in a theatre again.
MA is a bizarro stalker thriller [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionTate Taylor’s Ma is a knowingly absurd take on stalker movie clichés.
The Lighthouse Keeper and the Hag
Creative Works, FictionAppears in: Enchanted Conversation
Release Date: June/2019
Summary: An elderly lighthouse keeper is tormented by the hectoring mermaid stranded on his shore.
Read it at Enchanted Conversation.
Read the full issue here.
THE PERFECTION is a high-brow exploitation flick
Commentary, Film and TelevisionThe Perfection is a nasty little exploitation film in in black-tie attire.
Old Wives’ Tales
Creative Works, FictionAppears in: Horror Tree – Trembling With Fear
Release Date: May 19/2019
Summary: A woman tracks a witch’s consort after her child is attacked.
Read it below, or online at Horror Tree.
The Song Inside the Star
Creative Works, FictionAppears in: Weird Mask (Issue 18 – Cthulhu)
Release Date: May/2019
Summary: A journalist covering a flighty pop star is unnerved by her embrace of an ancient, esoteric religion in this riff on Lovecraft.
You can read the full story below; if you like it, you can order the zine here.
The Outsiders in the Hawthorne Tomb
Creative Works, FictionAppears in: American Gothic (Flame Tree Publishing)
Release Date: May/2019
Summary: An eccentric undertaker investigates the death of a disturbed young artist in this gothic tale.
Order American Gothic online from Flame Tree Publishing.
Ron Perlman @ Ottawa ComicCon 2019
Arts CoverageActor Ron Perlman dished about Guillermo Del Toro’s unrealized Hellboy finale at Ottawa ComicCon on Saturday.
US may be the year’s strangest horror movie [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionJordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out is a far weirder horror opus.
Pet Sematary comes back from the dead [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionRaising the dead rarely ends well. That’s the message I got from Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s grisly take on Pet Sematary.
Marianas Trench – Phantoms [album review]
Commentary, MusicMarianas Trench tell a dancefloor-friendly ghost story on their latest record.
Madison McSweeney 