We're back to our regularly scheduled programming at my Patreon, where I write about Tarantula (1955) and the origins of big bug movies...

The recurrent theme in J-horror that evil, once put into the world, can never be removed may seen like nihilism, but the obvious lesson is not to give up hope, but rather to do everything in your power to not put evil into the world in the first place.

The main ghost in Ju-On: White Ghost (2009) is just wearing an old woman mask and carrying a basketball around, for some reason.

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READ in horror as Orrin Grey writes about monsters coming out of the screen and snatching girls from the audience - if you're brave enough!

Okay, Grudge 2 DVD, turning the Columbia logo into Kayako is a nice gag.

Want to read the story I unexpectedly sold the other day? Lucky for you, it's FREE in the latest issue of The Dark! www.thedarkmagazine.com/please-turn-...

READ in horror as Orrin Grey writes about monsters coming out of the screen and snatching girls from the audience - if you're brave enough!

Here it is Analog Addicts, the #AnalogSunday schedule for the rest of the year! We return to our SOV Summer series with two insane films, but especially an incredibly special screening of KC-made slasher Feeding Billy, with director and crew in attendance! We’ll see you at #StrayCatFilmCenter! #VHS

One of literally two decent things in D. W. Griffith's otherwise execrable One Exciting Night (1922).

We're back to our regularly scheduled programming at my Patreon, where I write about Tarantula (1955) and the origins of big bug movies...

Earlier, I shared a post linking to an article about corporate capture and hollowing out of local newspapers. Further exploration suggests that the site and article may not be legit. I hate that we live like this, but it seems like I got taken in.

The Last Warning (1928) | Just shy of the absolute perfection that is Leni's The Cat and the Canary, movies nevertheless don't come much more delightful than this.

Cough as bad as it's ever been. Cat at the emergency vet till 3am. We could really use a break.

I could post a dozen shots from Godzilla vs. Hedorah, and no one who hadn't seen it would believe any two of them were from the same movie.

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Tomorrow night, Other Trash & Janice.Click return to Kansas City with a low-budget double-feature of unhinged Midwest madness: Zebra Hooves & I Was A Teenage Gargoyle! Hosted by #MMRentals with directors in attendance. Only at Stray Cat Film Center! — Buy Tickets: tinyurl.com/MidwestMadness

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The thing about Takashi Shimizu's assorted Ju-on films is that they're all good on their own, but they don't really become great until you combine them.

EXCLUSIVE TRAILER - The production of George Melford‘s 1931 Spanish Dracula sets the stage for murder in period horror movie LOS VAMPIRES. Los Vampires will make its World Premiere at the 30th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival, which runs July 16-August 2.

Ju-on: The Curse 1 & 2 (both 2000) | Weird to watch these back-to-back, since the second one is almost literally half footage from the first one, but at their best, both have the haunting feel of a crime scene recreation from an Unsolved Mysteries-like show.

Between health woes and financial woes and just the state of the world right now, I could use a few wins. Fortunately, I just unexpectedly sold a short story, so that's a nice start.

James G. Teason illustration from the Fountain Press World's Greatest Literature release of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination (c. 1965).

Also, if you thought social media was full of stupid reply guys, they're amateurs, I mean NOTHING compares to the things people say to your face immediately after you say "I'm a writer"

Special guest for tonight's Horror Pod Class.

Here she is!!! My new sofubi figure Silvershell!!! Sculpted by me and produced by Max Toy Japan! 🥹

TONIGHT! Join me and Tyler Unsell at the Stray Cat Film Center in Kansas City for a FREE screening of one of the weirdest kaiju films ever made as part of our Year of Monsters film series!

"Mortal Kombat is kind of charming, while Annihilation simply isn’t. Maybe there’s not really a better way to explain it."

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With video game consoles running a million dollars each and movie studios selling out to "AI," the time is finally ripe for the rest of us to bring back shadow puppetry!

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Just... an amazing confluence of information here.

Finally found a frame for my original poster from Let's Kill Uncle (1966).

RETROSAURS (Chenille Macabre) Pipe cleaner figures Fictional beasts inspired by the inaccurate toy dinosaurs we had growing up. Thanks @pl4gu3r47.bsky.social, for the name! Include paint, fun foam, bristles, and plastic. Each stands approximately 3" (7.62 cm) high. #darkart #pipecleanerart #horror

Promotional shot for "GORGO" (1961). #kaiju #giantmonster #horrorfam #Sizesky #horror #scifi #1960s

‘Lilo & Stitch’ creators Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois have shared a tribute artwork honoring the late Daveigh Chase.

I am not a person for whom "kills" are usually a high point of a film. But most of the ones in Evil Dead Trap (1988) are, and one in particular might be the most striking I have ever seen in a movie.

Discovered a new thing that I have to get one of someday.

Lunch sketch.

I keep seeing people who should know that words have meanings saying that Backrooms (2026) "doesn't have a story," which is just absolutely absurd on its face.

Death Carries a Cane (1973) | If you want to demonstrate to someone what a giallo is, but don't want to show them any of the classics for some reason, this has literally all your bases covered.

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Thoughts on the tragic passing of Daveigh Chase:

Pouring one out for Daveigh Chase by watching... R. L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse (2003), which was originally a "4D" (meaning they squirted you with water and such) attraction at SeaWorld. It's pretty bad, but at least Chase gets to play a homicidal ghost whose eyes pop out in 3D.

I like that the naming convention of the new Evil Dead movies makes it more and more likely with each passing day that I am able to convince someone that Evil Dead Trap is an actual Evil Dead movie.