Mostly movie reviews , sometimes book reviews .
An American music student researching a late composer falls for his son at the family’s French estate, learns she is the image of the girl he lost, and begins to suspect she was invited for sinister reasons.
On a South Pacific island, Martin and Lewis knockoffs Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo run afoul of mad scientist Bela Lugosi and his devolution serum.
A teen travels into an absurdist hell to rescue his fiancée after she’s abducted by a demonic cop with scripture verses carved into his face.
A woman kills to feed her lover, her husband’s half-resurrected brother, while the creatures he escaped from close in.
A black-gloved killer thins the ranks of a New York dance troupe competing for three spots in a new show, dispatching the best first.
A fading TV cowboy and his stunt double drift through the summer of 1969, while the Manson family circles the Hollywood power couple next door.
A young working-class couple mortgaged to their ears on a rural semi-detached house discover their old, hostile neighbors wield otherworldly powers.
An oral history of the Sisters of Mercy’s rise from Leeds clubs through their debut album and subsequent implosion.
A college student visits the last man on an abandoned, kudzu-choked street and learns what lurks beneath the vines.
A grief-stricken man sees visions of a flapper-era woman at his Tennessee cabin—and discovers he’s not the first.