October 18, 2018
With Halloween around the corner, I thought it was fitting to pay homage to the children’s series that started my love for horror: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz. If you were a kid in the 80s, you were probably familiar with these books, not only for the stories that were based on folklore and urban…
September 11, 2018
When I heard Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis were going to return to the movie franchises that made them famous, I was pretty excited. Hamilton is returning to the role of Sarah Connor in the sixth Terminator movie, and Curtis is returning as Laurie Strode in the latest Halloween movie this November. I’ve talked in the past how reboots…
August 16, 2018
When a Buffy the Vampire Slayer television reboot was announced last month, it pretty much broke the internet. Many fans (myself included) couldn’t believe that Joss Whedon would dare reboot these characters. Initial reports said it would feature an African American Slayer as the lead, and Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen would serve as the new showrunner with Whedon as…
July 19, 2018
Grab your umbrellas, because Netflix’s original series The Rain is the latest sci-fi show set in the apocalypse. The Danish series debuted in May and a second season has already been announced. It follows siblings, Simone and Rasmus, who are in search of their scientist father who may have the answers to why the apocalypse started in the first place.…
June 21, 2018
As an 80s kid, I grew up watching Christopher Reeve’s Superman. But it wasn’t the superhero in the red cape that captured my attention — it was the woman with the notebook and pen chasing the story. Now that I am a journalist, I have to say that Margot Kidder‘s Lois Lane inspired me in her work. Even though Lois Lane…
May 17, 2018
Imagine a world where making a sound will literally get you killed by creatures with hyper-sensitive hearing. That’s the synopsis of the film, A Quiet Place, the first surprise horror hit this year. Written and directed by John Krasinski, the movie centers on a family living in this new world. Krasinski and real-life wife, Emily Blunt, play the parents of…
April 17, 2018
In 2008, Iron Man burst onto the scene and forever changed the movie-going experience. I know it did for me. I was unfamiliar with the comics, but I liked Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man) so I decided to go check it out — twice. Before Iron Man, my previous exposure with superhero movies were the Superman movies with Christopher…
March 15, 2018
As a child of the 80s and 90s, I grew up on Transformers and the Power Rangers, so when Pacific Rim came out in 2013, it was everything I wanted in a movie. Giant robots fighting sea monsters sounded so awesome! Couple that with a director like Guillermo del Toro (who just won an Oscar for Best Director and Best…
February 15, 2018
In honor of February being Women in Horror Month, I thought it would be fitting for me to highlight some of my favorite “final girls.” What’s a final girl? Glad you asked. First coined by author Carol J. Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, the “final girl” is a trope found…
January 18, 2018
Black Mirror‘s fourth season dropped on Netflix Dec. 29th, 2017, just in time for everyone to binge-watch it over New Year’s weekend — which is exactly what I did. I’ve been a fan of the series since it debuted in 2011. The first two seasons were three episodes each. In 2015, Netflix commissioned twelve episodes, resulting in six episodes for…