I spent some time yesterday wallpapering my set walls in newspaper pages to film my next video, only to come back like an hour later to find that they had all fallen down while I was gone. Going to have to try again and hope they don’t come down while I’m shooting.

I was just going through a box of old newspapers for a project and found this one from when Diana was married.

WATCH THIS!!

New Darksides video! Return to Silent Hill is a Great Movie youtu.be/kZC0eYTcAPs

That trailer for Townfall has me the most excited for Silent Hill that I’ve been since they brought it back a few years ago. Love that clear New England/Lovecraft/Dead and Buried kind of harbor vibe they are working with here.

One last one and I’ll lay off it for a while, but there’s so many people who talk about horror for a living who are so antithetical to joy, art, and life itself that it’s truly embarrassing for the genre.

I can’t stop thinking about how much I was into Return to Silent Hill. It’s legitimately great. They shot the hell out of it, and it will probably be among my favorite 2026 horror movies at the end of the year.

Man this is just sad absolute loser shit

I can’t lie, it bothers me that different websites that act like journalistic horror sources in reality serve as unquestioning hype men. Reporting on new Scream posters, trailers, and featurettes while totally ignoring that Scream is promoting gambling, AI, and other bullshit.

Really cool to see the Pink Narcissis 4K restoration get a new physical release. Bidgood was so great and never got his flowers or had the career he deserved.

In their developer diary video they talk about sourcing real images of gore as reference for making this, I’ve heard this is not uncommon now in games. This to me is a strange and unnecessary/unethical thing that has risen within the push for graphical fidelity.

I’ve not done one of these here before, could be fun. Ask me anything you’d like to know ngl.link/zane16448

Restarted Silent Hill 3. That opening mall sequence really is one of the best ever. Probably my favorite location in the franchise.

watched this video while eating dinner with some friends last night which led to the extremely bizarre double feature of watching Seven Samurai for the first time immediately followed by Maniac Cop 2

New video! Maniac Cop | Anatomy of a Franchise youtu.be/fw9z5D16Lyc

I was on a walk just now and was going down the train tracks and I found this weird single puzzle piece on the tracks that didn’t have an image printed on it.

I know it’s early to speak on it, but I spent January finalizing a draft of the screenplay for the feature I’ve been working on. Going to start doing more edits on it soon. I’ve got a partial cast already and hope to finally begin shooting in the next few months.

Now watching:

Del Toro said this this week which is something I’ve expressed in the past. I still feel like horror is in a strange place culturally despite the movies doing fine financially. The amount of conservatives continuing to quietly normalize themselves within genre spaces has impacts.

I really enjoyed The Bone Temple on technical level despite its style deviations from the first one, but overall was pretty disappointed in it. Felt like the use of Savile’s image was meaningless and went nowhere, and I had the same issues that I had with Heritic last year

Yesterday I went and looked at the public display for the National Gingerbread House Competition, and I’m pretty sure that this one in the child’s competition was supposed to be Jesus in the manger but to me it was giving Eraserhead baby.

I just went down a vintage candy rabbit hole and learned that Lucky Charms were first developed because a guy at General Mills cut up orange circus peanuts and put them in his Cheerios.

I’ve never noticed it until recently, but in a way starting out in comics broke my brain as a writer a little bit. Both in my book and this movie I’m working on I find myself approaching story very episodically because of it which I find interesting.

New video! The Best Christmas Horror Movie

Was supposed to have a video out tomorrow but just did a test upload and saw this. I have never had this much content in a video get flagged at once for copyright, so I’ll work on it and we will see how it goes.

Started playing Siren tonight and I don’t think I’ve ever played a game before that is this uniquely tedious in its difficulty. But I’m finding it compelling enough to stick with it for now, the atmosphere is great.

Fun books finds for today, Dennis Cooper’s new book of short stories from last year and a hardcover collection of Tom of Finland’s Kake comics.

This person and I used to be mutuals, it’s quite frustrating to me how often I’m reduced to just this crazy radical scapegoat for so many people mainly for saying that good movies should generally, you know, actually be about something.

I’ve started rewatching some of The X-Files and it really is amazing that even a bad episode of this is exponentially better than almost anything from the streaming era.

New video! Ed Gein and the Precursor to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I watched History of the Occult tonight without really knowing anything about it going in and thought it was great. Actually quite scary and well done. It’s a little funny watching a movie really succeed at what Late Night With the Devil was trying to do.

These two projects got a little too complicated and are being moved to January to make sure that they are done in the style that they deserve. There will be a different main video next week though.

New Darksides video! Terror on the Frontier: The Folk Horror of Eyes of Fire

I’ve had a problem with this script I’ve been working on, but now I’m feeling good about it. As a result of this though there’s going to be two main videos this month. Hopefully a week apart from each other, not a part one and part two situation but still related to each other.

Got to this boss in Silent Hill F and the game is really clicking for me now. I don’t agree with everything it’s doing, but I’m really enjoying watching it come into its own and I’m liking it way more than the 2 remake as of now.

Now reading this. I’ve been really excited to check it out based on how folks talk about it.

Started playing Silent Hill F, and I genuinely do like it, but I’m having the same issues I had last year with the 2 remake where it just makes me feel like I’d rather be playing the old ones. Strange issue with this series that I don’t ever feel with new Resident Evils.

Hell yes!!!! My favorite Halloween movie. Had the pleasure of seeing it in theaters this year. Gets better with each watch.

New bonus Halloween video! Revisiting Trick r'Treat

Oooooh just in time for Halloweeeeeen!!

I still know SO little about this franchise. Looking forward to watching this!!

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!!! Just rewatched Halloweentown 2 while carving pumpkins.

New video! Halloweentown | Anatomy of a Franchise

Checking out VoidCon with @praiseshadows.bsky.social. So excited to visit the vendors and meet all the cool people!

Man it’s been such a weird month for me, I only watched six movies all of September that weren’t work related which like never happens. I’ll have to do better in October about it.

I have always been a proponent of the Critter Ball concept, and I think more media needs to use it.

folks i am a big fan of the "evil little guys" horror subgenre (gremlins, critters, ghoulies, puppet master, etc.), so i'm eatin good today

New video! Critters | Anatomy of a Franchise youtu.be/DNCZELsbguU

Re-watched Cabaret (1972) and suddenly realized that Joel Grey's performance as the Emcee seriously delivered one of the most terrifying characters of 70s cinema.

Tonight’s doodle I did while watching some old Unsolved Mysteries on Tubi