This week’s book shelf brings a bit of cosmic horror as I delve into Laird Bannon’s novel, The Croning. The story spans the decades of one man, and the horrors that are around him, and the realization that these nightmare terrors are real. It’s unnverving, as we are introduced to geologist Don Miller, and his…
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Toronto After Dark 2019: The Furies (2019) – Tony D’Aquino
Australia brings their horror game to the Toronto After Dark film festival tonight with their bloody and violent The Furies. A riff on the Final Girl trope as well as a mash-up of Battle Royale and Halloween the film is deliciously gory and excitingly paced. When Kayla (Airlie Dodds) is abducted and wakes up in…
Meddling Kids (2017) – Edgar Cantero
When I was a kid I loved reading the Hardy Boys (I could knock out a book in a day – which to me at the time was amazing, and I loved those little blue hardcover books). Between ages 11 and 12, I danced around the edges of things that could be interpreted as scary,…
Pet Sematary (2019) – Blu-Ray Review
The most recent Stephen King adaptation, and remake of the 1989 film, comes home on DVD and blu-ray today from Paramount Pictures. Featuring some pretty significant departures from the source material, but arguably faithful to it at the same time, this variation of the classic monkey’s paw tale is a fairly solid tale, while not…
Splice (2009) – Vincenzo Natali
The next title in DK Canada’s Minsters in the Movies book, as I continue my way through the chapter on mad scientists is Splice, starring Adrien Brody and the always exemplary Sarah Polley. This film is very much the mad scientist take on parenting with all the mistakes and the oedipal complexes taken to a…
The Company of Wolves (1984) – Neil Jordan
The next werewolf film to be featured in DK Canada’s highly enjoyable Monsters in the Movies is this Neil Jordan film from the 80s. I remember seeing the VHS case for it when I was beginning my movie education as a young teen. I didn’t recognize any of the names, and the VHS cover had…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1994) – Tribunal, and The Jem’Hadar
Station log: stardate 47944.2 Avery Brooks directs this episode from a story by Bill Dial that sees O’Brien (Colm Meaney) stuck in a Kafka-esque nightmare when he seized and arrested by the Cardassians, purportedly for working with The Maquis. Charged with an unknown crime, all we know from past experience is that Cardassians courts, are…
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1992/1993) – Espionage Escapades
Indiana (Sean Patrick Flanery) continues his time in the secret service during the Great War with these two episodes that were combined to form one feature length film. Barcelona, May 1917 Written by Gavin Scott from a story idea by series creator George Lucas, this first aired as an episode on 12 October, 1992. Indy…
The Trial (1962) – Orson Welles
I return now to DK Canada’s The Movie Book, where their next big title recommendation is Orson Welle’s opus, Citizen Kane. Having previously reviewed it, I moved right along to the What Else to Watch section, and discovered a Welles film that I hadn’t watched or reviewed before. Based on Kafka’s novel, The Trial features…
The Twilight Zone (1961) – The Silence, Shadow Play, and The Mind and the Matter
It’s time to delve into the dark corners of The Zone, as I continue my exploration of Paramount Picture’s The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series on blu-ray. First up this week is The Silence. Written by series creator, Rod Serling, this episode had its premiere on 28 April, 1961. Jamie Tennyson (Liam Sullivan) is a…
The Twilight Zone (1961) – A Penny for Your Thoughts, Twenty Two and The Odyssey of Flight 33
Paramount Pictures plunges me further into The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series on blu-ray. First up is A Penny for Your Thoughts. Written by George Clayton Johnson, the episode premiered on 3 February, 1961. When bank clerk Hector B. Poole (Dick York) tosses a coin to a newspaper vendor it lands on its edge and…
The Killing Circle (2008) – Andrew Pyper
I dove into another Andrew Pyper book, Lost Girls is still waiting for me, and I was a little unsure about this one to start. I mean, I like the idea, a widower, Patrick Rush, is raising his only son, Sam, his grief over his wife describing a personal pain, not unlike the protagonist in the…
