Daniel Mills​ tagged me to name "seven things about my writing that you may not already know," which is the sort of thing I would normally agonize over for several days before unceremoniously dumping it onto the Internet in the middle of the night. However, I don't really have time for agonizing right now, so I'll just skip straight to ( Read more... )

The Oscars are tonight. I don't really care too much about them any year, and this year is no different, mostly because I haven't seen the vast majority of the movies that are nominated for anything, so I can't have much of an opinion either way. About the only category where I have a horse in the race is Best Animated Feature, where I'm hoping Big ( Read more... )

So, I'm jumping the gun a bit on this, as we've still got a couple weeks of 2014 left, but there's pretty good odds that I won't see any movies or read any books or publish anything that I don't already know about or anything else of note between now and then, and if I do, I'll put up an addendum to this entry. So, looking back at 2014, what's the ( Read more... )

In honor of Gardinel's Real Estate and the Countdown to Halloween, I talk five of my favorite horror movie houses over on my 'blog. It's an image-intensive post, so rather than attempting to reproduce it here and deal with formatting, I'll provide a link insteadI could list awesome houses from horror movies all day, and I'm really sad that my five- ( Read more... )

Over on the official Hammer Films twitter, they asked what your top ten Hammer horror films would be, inspired by this list. The rules were: only one movie from each of their big franchises (Frankenstein, Dracula, Mummy). Hammer horror films are my very favorite subset of any films ever, pretty much, and picking favorites is always nearly ( Read more... )

So here's my last year-in-review-type-post for 2013, and my attempt at a second annual unofficial Best Movie Monster of the Year post (here's last year's). It'll also be the second year in a row (out of two!) that I gave the award to a whole movie, rather than any one particular monster. So I'm obviously good at this, is what I'm saying ( Read more... )

I only saw around 23 movies that came out in 2013. From those, I was asked to compile a top ten list for Downright Creepy, where I occasionally pen reviews. I managed to put one together, along with a pick for worst movie I saw this year, and a list of some of the movies that I'm most looking forward to next year.

You can find the lists here, but ( Read more... )

I read around 40 books all the way through in 2013, not counting skimming individual short stories out of collections and anthologies, or re-reading graphic novels that I had just read (I tend to read any Mike Mignola stuff through two or three times in rapid succession shortly after getting them). Here's a quick top ten, though putting them in any ( Read more... )

It's the time of the season when everybody starts trotting out their lists of favorite horror movies. I've tried doing those in the past, and maybe one day I'll try an exhaustive one again, but this year I was just thinking about the problem with those lists, which is that they're always populated by the same bunch of movies. The classics are ( Read more... )

[Spoilers here, for Cabin in the Woods, mostly, so heads up.]
If I live to be a hundred, publish ten-thousand bestsellers, and cure cancer, one of my proudest achievements will still and always be that John Langan once referred to me as "the monster guy." I love monsters (it's right there in my bio), and I love movies about them, and it's always ( Read more... )