Mostly movie reviews , sometimes book reviews .
Small-time crook Walter Matthau knocks over a podunk New Mexico bank for what should be a few thousand dollars, comes away with three-quarters of a million, and knows exactly whose money he’s taken.
In colonial New England, a witch burned alive returns to possess her teenage daughter, with secret help from the girl’s buxom governess.
As Halloween nears, a young man’s mother and cop brother try to keep him out of his grandfather’s satanic cult while a devil-masked killer picks off the people around him.
After ten years in a coma, Michael Myers wakes up and heads to Haddonfield to stalk his orphaned niece, with Dr. Loomis in pursuit.
A ruthless gang of thieves waylays a couple driving cross-country only to learn ruthless is a relative term.
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.