When I was a kid, I made a book of monsters, which was an A-Z picture book of creatures with terribly scribbled drawings for each one. I was particularly proud of my creativity (laziness) to leave a blank page for the Invisible Man. But I can easily say that this childish endeavor wasn’t nearly as cool as Book of Monsters, coming from Dread…

Sometimes dead is better…

Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. This is a theory suggesting events in the remote future co-exist with events in the past, essentially defining “here” and “there” as being the same. If that statement sounds confusing to you, then Tangent Room is not the movie for you…

If you’re ever in the middle of the woods and you find a trap door leading into an underground bunker, whatever you do, don’t go inside! You might just run into the reincarnated zombie-spirit of a Nazi-killing soldier who wants your head because he thinks you’re a German. Best to just go ahead and walk away…

As a kid, I grew up in the cozy suburbs of Illinois, but had a lot family in rural Wisconsin. We would visit my grandparents there at least a couple of times a year, and something about being out in the middle of woods with people who were so obnoxiously nice that it was almost robotic, always put me on edge. These are two elements that 30 Miles from Nowhere gets so right. Unfortunately, it gets everything else so, so wrong…

This is why I don’t have kids…

I don’t even want to argue that genre isn’t at its best anymore. Horror and sci-fi could not be better right now. Why? Because the days of films being made exclusively by white men, for white men, are becoming less and less the norm. Women and minorities continue to make their voices heard through film with new stories and perspectives, continuing with Level 16…

I wouldn’t call the 1933 James Whale directed The Invisible Man my favorite Universal monster movie, (that honor belongs to Bride of Frankenstein), but damnit if it isn’t second best. There have been a number of iterations of H.G.Wells story, some fun (Memoirs of an Inbisible Man), some ugly (Hollow Man), but unfortunately for the new film The Unseen, it may remain that way…

What if your best friend called you up right now and told you that, at midnight tonight, they were going to become a werewolf, and needed you to stop them? What would you do? Most of us sane people would call 911 to report that our friend had finally seen one too many movies. But the latest novel from Fangoria Presents, Carnivorous Lunar Activities, looks at how it might go if you tried to talk to said friend, and it isn’t pretty…

You’re out in the middle of the woods with three of your friends. After a night of playing poker for what is somehow the first time in your thirty-plus years, you and your buddies discover the footprint of what can only be the mythical sasquatch. If you’re a normal person, you get your life, get the hell out of there and call the cops. But in the case of the gang in Between the Trees, you decide to hunt it, because of course…