had read this book earlier this year, but if I'm being honest with you, I don't remember much of it outside of the carnival setting, some of the cooler bad guy names, and the father of one of the main characters. He wasn't your normal hero; in fact, put him in a lineup, and he's probably the last person you would expect, or want, to be the hero. He's a much older gentleman with a child around 10. His son resents him a bit because he's at that age where he's super active, but

I appreciate when horror movies take big swings. We kicked off the month with a movie told from the perspective of a dog, which I really, really enjoyed. Then there was this movie that's been on my radar for some time. The internet raved about it, and I was very intrigued because it's told from the perspective of an undead killer. When you watch a Friday the 13th or a Halloween movie, the humans are just kind of there; the real star of the show is the mute monster that's stal

This is a weird series for me. When it first came out, everyone told me how scary it was. When I finally got a chance to watch it, I had been prepared to jump a lot, but I just didn't. It was a good movie and had some scary moments, but I think I drank too much of the Kool-Aid.

When there's a movie that gets a lot of buzz, I do my best to avoid it completely until I get a chance to see it. That means I don't read any synopses, watch any trailers and try to avoid any conversations about it. In this case, I wish I hadn't gone in fresh. I'll get into that later, but first, let's talk about the movie.

So, 17-year-old Andy and his nearly blind sister find their father dead in the shower. He had been battling cancer for an undisclosed amount of time, so his death wasn't totally unexpected. Needless to say, it seems to really affect Andy, who can't bring himself to help their father as he's lying on the floor, ultimately ending in his death.

I get up at midnight to head to work, and I try to be as quiet as possible. After I get myself together, I go and check on Lincoln, and while in his room, I heard Kaliana crying. She was sleeping in our bed next to Dear, so I figured she'd try to wake her mother. When I left Lincoln's room, the crying was much closer, and I could see the outline of her little body in the dark. When I got close to her, she raised her arms for me to pick her up and then immediately pointed to o

Let me get this out of the way right from the jump: I love everything about this movie. I adore the animation, the cast is great, the story is wonderful, the baddies are interesting and nuanced, and the major antagonist can go from legitimately scary and looking awesome one second to heartbreakingly sympathetic the next. It has humor, it has heart and it's a love letter to 80s adventure horror.

I had been familiar with the story of Father Gabriele Amorth and was curious about his books, but never got around to reading them. Summed up, he was the official exorcist of the Vatican for many years. Basically, if there was something that needed checking out, Father Gabriele would go in, scope out the situation, and decide if an exorcism was needed.

I like the Alien series and will see every movie they put out there. I think Alien is great, Aliens is even better, but they get progressively worse as they go along. I thought Prometheus was trash, but my goodness, Covenant was so much worse; like, it was aggressively bad. As for Romulus...

As for the movie, it's Halloween night, and a famous and very rich monster hunter, Ulysses Bloodstone, has passed away. At his funeral, several decorated monster hunters, the man's widow, Verussa and his estranged daughter, Elsa, no, not that one- all show up for one reason or another. Verussa tells them they will be hunting a monster roaming their grounds, with the famed Bloodstone in its hide, and the one that defeats it gets to keep the stone. It's every hunter for themsel

Let me get one thing out of the way first because if I don't, I'll probably end up sprinkling some version of this fact throughout this review. Nicolas Cage is awesome and is one of the best actors alive. He plays the titular Longlegs, and he's one of the most unsettling characters I can remember seeing in a horror movie. Of course, he looks creepy as Hell, like whoever put together this character's look did a phenomenal job. And you know, because it's Cage, he's going to...

I've never been more disappointed in a movie. You have to understand, the Silent Hill video game series is my favorite of all time. The first one scared me more than any other I've ever played, and the second one is my favorite game of all time. Before we get into the meat and potatoes of the review, a little history. The first movie came out in 2006. I can tell you the exact moment I learned about the movie.

This is an example of a really cool premise that doesn't have the legs for an entire race. A good example of that is the book Cabin at the End of the World. That had an awesome premise, but it kind of falls apart at the end because there's only so much you can do to keep the plot moving to where the writer wants it to end up. Take away about 75 pages, and it would have hit much harder.

I'm a big fan of when actors stretch their wings and try something different. There are so many actors and actresses who got their big break thanks to horror movies, but then pretty much stay away from it. You've got Jennifer Aniston, Hayden Christensen, William Shatner, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney (although he did come back for From Dusk Till Dawn), Brad Pitt, Paul Rudd, Renée Zellweger and many more.If you want to stretch your wings and show you have range, horror is

Two years ago, I reviewed the werewolf movie, Bad Moon. It was based on a book called Thor, which was told entirely from the dog's perspective. I made mention of that in the review, and here's what I said... "I know you can't do a movie through the eyes of the dog, but I find that premise a lot more interesting than the straightforward story we ended up with." I always admit when I'm wrong, so let me say this: I was dead wrong! And Good Boy is all the proof I need.