We return to the second installment of the now-completed Count Crowley saga, but we’re going to continue to review each issue individually. How does the production team of David Dastmalchian, Lucas Ketner,…
‘Indestructible Man’ (1956) Has Potential as a Series
Jack Pollexfen’s Indestructible Man is a quirky blend of a crime movie, horror and science fiction with a light noir edge.
The Dead Lands is entertaining but is nothing I’ll be keeping up with.
Has anyone ever heard of the 2014 New Zealand film The Dead Lands? It was written by Glenn Standing, directed by Toa Fraser, and was selected as New Zealand’s entry for the…
Weekly Wail – To everything turn, turn, The Turning
Another week, another wail. Haunted MTL readers, please let us know what you think about this weekly blog. Have you found anything interesting from it? Do you want us to cover more…
Spoiler-Free Review: Horror Book ‘The Beauty’
I come to you, just finishing Aliya Whiteley‘s The Beauty. My version is sitting here next to me, marked up with a red pen, a coffee stain running through the bottom of…
Vivziepop’s Hazbin Hotel: Dark and Crude Cartoons
The Lighter Side of Dark… I’m not sure what it was about January 2020 that made it feel so dark. Perhaps it’s the excessive reports of diseases infecting our world like coronavirus…
Review: Parasite (2019)
Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, Okja) writes and directs Parasite (2019), a darkly comic thriller. Bong and screenplay co-writer Han Jin-won explore the intersection of those on opposite ends of the poverty and wealth…
Witcher, Episode Six. Rare Breed
Dragons! Sorry, let me start over. Episode six of Netflix The Witcher revolves around Geralt and Jaskier going on a dragon hunt. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that Yennifer is…
Review: The Turning (2020)
The Turning is the epitome of how January feels: cold, dreary, anticlimactic, endless. Since the film is loosely based on Henry James’ classic gothic tale, The Turn of the Screw, I had…
Haunted MTL Original – Sweet Tooth – Tiffany Promise
“Sweet Tooth” by Tiffany Promise It didn’t seem that late on Halloween eve—the frothy, mossy stink of recently-scooped pumpkin still permeated the air—but only the goth kids remained outside, bleeding themselves silly…