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…
Author: John Combo
Keep Watching (2017): If you don’t start, you don’t have to keep watching! (1 out of 5 Cthulhus)
The Discovery… So, picture a Wednesday night by yourself. You’re on the road and you don’t really have the energy to go out after your day of work and you still have…
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: Return of a Showtime Horror Series
By the release of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels on April 26th it will be almost four years since the end of the first series. I’m hoping that this means Showtime took…
H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”: A Reflection before Release
A look back… By 1927, Lovecraft had published “The Alchemist” and “Herbert West – Reanimator”. In March 1927, he’d completed the “The Colour Out of Space” and sold it to Hugo Gernsback…
“La Noria”: Short, Sweet, Simple Horror (5 Cthulhus)
The story… “La Noria” is an animated horror short about a boy trying to complete a gift from his father. As the film starts, an image of a happy sun and Ferris…
FX’s A Christmas Carol: Not A Cozy Christmas Story
I can admit that by this time of the Christmas Season I have usually watched several versions of A Christmas Carol. From Mickey Mouses’ to Albert Finney, I get a wide range…
Color Out of Space: Lovecraft in the 21st Century!
What I was hoping for… I started this article pretty aggravated with the direction the writers chose to go with this movie. I wanted to see a period piece set in the…
FX Productions’ A Christmas Carol: A Darker Version of a Holiday Classic
Not the same old retelling… Every year we are offered another take on Charles Dickens’ Classic, A Christmas Carol. Often, the excitement comes from finding out if the big name actor picked…
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker: A Review After 33 Years.
Where it all started… The Hellbound Heart started life humbly tucked away in an anthology released in November of 1986. Night Visions Volume 3 featured Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Tuttle, and Clive Barker…