When I was a kid–and my kid-hood stretched well into my twenties–nothing in the horror genre bothered me. Some things made deep impressions, of course (the climax of Night of the Living Dead, for example, introduced me to nihilism), but it didn’t trouble me or give me the kind of nightmares that make you swear off things. And I was … Read More
What lies (er, hops) at the heart of The Maze?
One of the best thing about holidays? Catching up on movies! Over the next few days I’ll be writing about some of the more interesting flicks I saw over the long weekend, starting with 1953’s The Maze. I remember watching The Maze at my uncle’s house in Columbia, TN when I was a kid. I was too young for post-modern … Read More
Return of the Verdilak
Lately I’ve been reading multiple books at once, a chapter here andc there of completely unrelated things: the second Denton novel by Kenneth Cameron, No-Man’s Lands by Scott Huler (about retracing the journeys of Odysseus), an unbelievably detailed book on the making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and a novel for which I’ve been asked to do a … Read More
Scare fare laid bare (i.e., my favorite horror films)
In anticipation of Halloween, and to get in the mood for my upcoming gig as a judge at the Madison Horror Festival, I thought I’d talk about my favorite horror films, why I like them so much and what I like (and don’t) about horror films in general. My favorite horror film remains George A. Romero’s original 1979 Dawn of … Read More
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