Go participate! Go see every movie. See the bad ones, the good ones. Watch movies with the sound off and you can see how a movie’s made. If you ever think your movie you’re making is too long, it is. If you ever wonder, “Should I cut this?” the answer is, “Yes.” And somebody has to like it beside the person you’re fucking and your mother.
Today marks 30 years of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine! Here’s an appreciation post featuring some more episode artwork I’ve made over the past few years.
New Fiction 2023 – October
Another October in the can! And now I wish I could snooze through the real horror that is the holiday season. Maybe I’ll stay in October forever… forever… forever…
“The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror” by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)
“The Time Remaining” by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)
“CUE: Change” by Chesya Burke (2011)
“Last Call for the Sons of Shock” by David J. Schow (1994)
“The Real Right Thing” by Henry James (1899)
“The Haunted House” by M.A. Bird (1865)
“The Island of Regrets” by Elizabeth Walter (1965)
“The Stolen Body” by H.G. Wells (1903)
“The White Priest” by Hélène Gingold (1893)
“The Man Who Went Too Far” by E.F. Benson (1912)
“Mater Tenebrarum” by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)
“Menopause” by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)
“Señor Ligotti” by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. James D. Jenkins (2020)
“Shambleau” by C.L. Moore (1933)
“The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)
“The Village Spectre” by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)
“The Fog Horn” by Ray Bradbury (1951)
“The Lady of the House of Love” by Angela Carter (1979)
“The Woman’s Ghost Story” by Algernon Blackwood (1907)
“Black Bargain” by Robert Bloch (1942)
“Vastarien” by Thomas Ligotti (1987)
“The Doll” by Daphne du Maurier (1937)
“The Transferred Ghost” by Frank Stockton (1882)
“The Shadowy Third” by Ellen Glasgow (1923)
“The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson (1949)
“The Interval” by Vincent O’Sullivan (1918)
“The Phantom Cyclist” by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)
“Couching at the Door” by D.K. Broster (1942)
“Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler (1984)
Audio
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)
Comics
“Birds of a Feather” by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)
“The Origin of Vampirella” by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)
“Do You Know… the Beast-Man?” by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)
“Good Ol’ Fashioned Vanilla” by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)
“For Better or Worse?” by Richard Corben (2016)
“Werewolf!” by Frank Frazetta (1964)
“Chickadee!” by Aya Rothwell (2016)
“The Evil Dead” (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)
“Famine’s Shadow” by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)
“A Pretty Place” by Emily Carroll (2023)
“The Thing from the Sea” by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)
“The Living Ghost” by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)
“Essence of Life” by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)
“Hag of the Blood Basket!” by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)
“The Fisherman” by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)
“Dental Plan” by Joy San (2019)
“Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo” by Unknown (1946)
“Man’s World” by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)
“Shadow of Death” by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)
“Smoke and Cedar” by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)
“A Dog and His Boy” by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)
“The Horror Beneath” by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)
“Shadows on the Tomb” by Joe Certa (1952)
“The Muck Monster” by Bernie Wrightson (1975)
“The Duel of the Monsters” by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)
“The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll” by Edward Gorey (1962)
“Inside You” by Valerie D’Orazio & David James Cole (2014)
“Soylent Teen” by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)
“The Gris-Gris” by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)
“Fair Ground” by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)
Video Games
Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)
Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)
Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)
D dev. Warp (1995)
Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)
Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)
Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)
Movies
It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)
The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)
Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)
Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)
The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)
The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)
House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)
The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)
The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)
Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)
The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)
A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)
Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)
A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)
The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)
Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)
Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)
Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)
The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)
The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)
Kuso dir. Steve (2017)
Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)
The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)
The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)
Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)
Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)
Television
Regular Show – “Terror Tales of the Park” I-VI (2011-2016)
The Simpsons – “Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It” (2022)
Tales from the Cryptkeeper – Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)
The first half kind of drags before it finally gets to the titular setting, then it’s surreal melty wall terror. That makes up for the slow start and cements it as another great entry. I’ll be back for the next one in 2024.
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“So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit.”
I always avoided this one because the jumpscare gameplay wasn’t for me, but I figured I had to at least see the first one through to the end. I don’t know that I can recommend it what with Cawthon’s problematic nonsense, but it’s an interesting product from an indie dev of the time.
New Horror 2023 – Day 30
“If the thing could follow him it was of no use to go away.”
Somehow this light-hearted spirit tale is spookier than a lot of other work I’ve read this month. Perhaps it’s the earnestness of the telling and the ages of the subjects.
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“They’re both an integral part of my overachiever confit with class president puree!”
“Soylent Teen” by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)
A neat little story but that title gives it away too quickly.
Robinson does to the viewer what her character does to those in the movie, and it’s brilliant. Everyone nailed the vibe and I’d mistake it for something from the early 70s if not for the lack of grain in the film and occasional usage of modern tech.
New Horror 2023 – Day 28
“A dense haze, gray and tinged ruddy, lay between the houses, sometimes blowing with a little wet kiss against the face.”
Huh. Maybe I’ve read too many Victorian-ish ghost stories, but this one just sort of happens along until the words stop. There were stronger takes on this earlier in the month.
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“I guess I was really wasting Jimmy’s body.”
“Inside You” by Valerie D’Orazio & David James Cole (2014)
Sometimes you simply aren’t you for a while, but what happens is still on you.
Kind of a sedate spooky reading, but still real good. I suppose if there’s a horror here it’s those skewed heteronormative expectations around a) women must marry when they’re young and attractive and b) men don’t need to commit and can afford to be aloof assholes. But the way Jackson writes this, it still has an eerie vibe about what exactly is going on.
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“Wobbling Rock had finally fallen on a family having a picnic.”
The sedate horror continues with this weird, meandering tale about what I can only guess are some rich yuppies traveling about the countryside without a care as those around them suffer. Since it’s Gorey, there’s a general unsettling look in the illustrations, and the ending does nothing to assuage that feeling.
You know something’s off in this story about ghosts and possessions, and while it may be predictable there are still some interesting turns before you arrive at the destination.
New Horror 2023 – Day 26
“My own belief is that she died simply of the terror of life.”
I don’t know what it says about me when the gross and bizarre stuff in this movie doesn’t really phase me. I saw many reviews where people were really sickened by some of the scenes, which sure I get it, but it’s so surreal and cartoony that it didn’t hit the same as movies that approach the nastiness more seriously. Glad I watched it!
New Horror 2023 – Day 25
“My situation was now one of extreme delicacy and embarrassment.”
That’s an impressive comic! Wrightson was clearly building up to his grand take on Frankenstein with these earlier explorations of existential nightmares. It looks amazing and the story’s nice and somber.
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“Are you in favor of filth coming into Pottsville?”
A neat low-budget monster movie, and impressive given it’s the director’s first work. But I also can’t says you gotta see it. If you watch it for anything, watch it for the monster effects.
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“From the moment he first SPIED-her, he wanted to make that girl his naturally WEBBED wife!”
You know, this show is most definitely for KILL-dren, but I still really enjoyed more dead-PUN humor from the Cryptkeeper and the occasional spooky GORY that punched way above its Saturday MOURNING weight class.
