Category: Random Access

“There I was, so awfully dead in that electric chair.” Here’s how you make a sequel to The Exorcist. I knew going into this that The Exorcist III: Legion is….

“Those bad dreams are still inside you.” The Exorcist never needed a sequel, and it was always going to get one. William Friedkin’s film was too successful and too influential….

“I’m hideous, doctor! I’m crazy! I’m a monster!” Watching early David Cronenberg films is like listening to a band’s demo tape. You can sense the themes and iconography that he….

“You stay locked up long enough and you start to believe you’re nuts.” As of this writing, John Carpenter is still alive, which means he has the chance (or the….

“The dead can be heard all around these abandoned streets.” I promise I’m trying with Clive Barker. His sense of horror might run parallel to mine, but works like The….

“My thoughts are drenched in blood.” Horror has a Barbara Crampton problem. The problem isn’t with Crampton herself, who has been an icon of the genre since Re-Animator came out….

“All worship Dagon, or die.” I really wanted to get some Lovecraft in this year’s 31DOF. At first I was going to write about 2019’s truly excellent Color Out of….

“Nothing ever really dies in the corn.” There have now been eleven Children of the Corn feature films, plus one short, which is enough that I’m comfortable saying: what are….

“He Who Walks Behind the Rows will decide your fate.” Look, it was the 1980s, okay? Putting Stephen King’s name on anything basically meant that you could print money. This….

“Would you like to meet a ghost?” The best kind of horror, to me, is the kind that traffics in dread as opposed to shock. American horror, outside of the….

“Everything can be forgiven if the work is good.” Remember the Soska Sisters? They were poised to become the next big thing in horror; the Canadian twins were even the….

“God has given you a son.” I’ve been doing 31 Days of Fright for almost a decade now – sometimes sporadically, I’ll admit – so how am I just now….