Month: July 2021
American comics have been in a slump, the mainstream dwelling in mundane content heavily focused on appeasing a small percentage of the fanbase. The result, mainstream/major companies struggling with sales and having to lay off staff in the process. Consequently, many fans have flocked to manga that offers both variety and freedom of expression. It
Konnichiwa! Dia Duit! Wazzup! Straight Outta Kanto here braving the torrential rain and grim humidity of Summer in Ireland to bring you a review of biblical proportions. Originally a casualty of pandemic related delays, Kim Tae-Hyung’s Horror-Mystery The Eight Night has finally been unleashed on Netflix like an archaic curse prophesied in aeons past. If you’re
Censor is an innovative psychological horror based in the UK in the 80s, with a story that both discusses and becomes the worst of video nasties – a melding of violent horror and reality to the point where it becomes impossible to tell the difference. Warning: spoilers ahead in this deep dive analysis! Enid is
Ten years ago in 1994, I was walking into the local bookstore to pick the new…wait….that was 27 years ago? Fine then, I will start over. Almost 3 decades ago, with my allowance in hand, I was strolling into the local bookstore on a mission to snag the newest Goosebumps book by R.L. Stine. I
RevBarely a year after Neil Marshall’s first big-budget Hollywood feature, Hellboy (2019), failed to earn him a box office success, he has returned to his horror roots with the much anticipated The Reckoning. The failures and behind-the-scenes drama of Hellboy became pretty public as critics and viewers hung it out to dry and I was
Considering the popularity of monster movies being rekindled by Godzilla Versus Kong (2021), the newest entry into the ‘MonsterVerse’, the classic approach to this genre may be coming into a new golden era. With my love of these films spanning multiple regions and eras, I am always interested in new titles that are unabashed in
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared is the fantastic surreal puppet show by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling. It was released for free on YouTube starting in 2011 and ultimately taking until 2016 to finish a six-episode series. It’s so overwhelmingly surreal we haven’t even attempted to attempt to describe it with a single writer, but
Surrealist art can transport us in ways other art cannot. Madness, darkness, awe, and beauty are all found within the style. Painters such as Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, and M. C. Escher have all gone on to infamy, but there is a bevy of artists who contributed to the Surrealist Movement in its
Hello Spookies! Class is in session again. Today we are going to dapple in a Malaysian found footage horror movie called IRUL: Ghost Hotel. Full disclosure, I don’t know very much about Malaysian culture. So, I will have to do a lot of research with this film. But from first glance, this is a pretty