I was looking forward to The Bride! but when it came out, there was so much anti-buzz that I shrugged and gave it a pass. Just watched it and I haven't loved something new this much in years. Every 10 minutes, I was like, "I love it so far - maybe it'll get bad soon." Then it ended. 5 stars!

Falling down a Daliah Lavi rabbit hole and just checked out Il Demonio (1963). Gorgeous, funny, terribly sad - late Italian Neorealism and early Folk Horror. Super interesting, and Lavi is great in it! More in the link: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/12/03/i...

Finally checked out Bava's The Whip and the Body and loved it! Gothic, kinky, beautiful, eerie, and Daliah Lavi is amazing. But Christopher Lee didn't do his own voice and the English dub is weird, so I really recommend the Italian version. flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/09/27/t...

Continuing my journey down the rabbit hole of "Lesbian Vampire" flicks, I just checked out The Female Vampire, The Velvet Vampire, We Are The Night, and The Moth Diaries. Some great, some frustrating, I share detailed thoughts here: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/08/28/l...

Why do we do these things to ourselves? Set myself the homework of catching up on some lesser liked 90s horror sequels (Candyman 2, Slumber Party Massacre 3, TX Chainsaw 4, Howling 5, Halloween 6). Some were good fun. Some...weren't. Thoughts in the link: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/08/05/n...

Since it's on HBO I just caught up with Final Destination: Bloodlines. Damn, that was fun, but I wasn't prepared for how much the Tony Todd of it all was going to make me cry...

I can't recommend the Ocean City, MD Boardwalk Haunted House enough - got to ride it for the first time since I was a kid recently and it blew me away with how great it was! More here: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/07/07/d...

With St. Paddy's tomorrow, I wanted to finally watch Leprechaun 4: In Space, and while I was at it, thought I could run some space set horror sequels (Jason X and Hellraiser: Bloodlines). I went for the silliness, but rather liked all of them. More here: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/03/16/b...

I don't know why I slept on Jean Rollin so long - in the last couple of years, he's become an absolute favorite. Something about his films is just so warm and comforting. Happy 50th to Lips of Blood! flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/03/07/l...

Just finished and loved Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by @gradyhendrix.bsky.social . Also sent me down a spiral on "Good for Her" horror, which I really respond to, and why so much of it seems to be written and/or directed by men. flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/02/03/w...

Really late to this game, but I finally finished summing up my favorite new-to-me horror watches of last year (some new, mostly old). At least I got the post up before February. :) Some great stuff out there - have a look! flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/01/23/t...

Finally checked out I Saw the TV Glow - wow, I really hadn't known what to expect, and all of the fun Buffy stuff really set me up to be thouroghly sucker punched by its deeply sad ending. Of course, melencholy runs through the movie, but I wasn't prepared for that. Really interesting experience.

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I recently caught up with and fell in love with the Chucky show, and decided to revisit the films. Wow, do they hold up - each film working in really different ways, but all of a piece. Maybe the best of the slasher franchises? I dig into them here: flinchingwithdelight.com/2024/11/22/c...

I’m super proud of this one. I know it’s now 10 years old, but it was in a fairly obscure journal and didn’t get the traffic I would’ve liked. The SI it comes from was really great all around. journals.openedition.org/transatlanti...

Writers: repost a random piece that you're proud of. This is from a year or two back, but I thought it was pretty good, and I sure do love this movie. flinchingwithdelight.com/2022/09/06/s...

Finally decided to branch out from Twitter. I post monthly on my horror blog. This time I write about a show I just worked on for Halloween. flinchingwithdelight.com/2024/11/06/l...