The film opens and gets right into the action as a man attacks a girl and knocks her unconscious without even touching her. As she is on the ground, he drains some […]
Tragedy and Fury – Miss Fury Volume 1: Anger is An Energy
The book starts out with our anti-heroine falling into a machine and thrust forward into 2013 from 1943. Jumping forward seventy years out of your time and comfort zone must be a […]
Apocalyptic Actions Do Not An Apocalypse Make – Sheltered Volume 1
Sheltered is one of those rare comics where going into the book, there was no prior knowledge of it, the creators or the concept. Comprising five issues, it was a blind buy […]
Gravel, Teacher – Strange Killings: The Body Orchard
This series of Warren Ellis’s combat magician sees our hero in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Again. Seems Gravel just cannot keep out of trouble no matter where he goes. […]
Immortality By Any Means – Nothing But the Night (1972)
Even though this could be classified as a horror movie, Nothing But the Night is a little light on that particular element. It is more akin to a suspense-thriller picture more than […]
Oh, To Feel Young Again – The Sorcerers (1967)
The first thought that comes to mind when watching The Sorcerers is that Boris Karloff has got to be at least 100 years old. Funny enough, it was not that far off […]
Only Good Intentions – Before I Hang (1940)
Before I Hang finds poor Boris Karloff ready to go to jail, sentenced to death for a murder which he did commit, but one he deemed merciful and without malice. How did […]
Think Before You Dig Up That Graveyard! – Witchcraft (1964)
Lon Chaney is furious! A developer is tearing up his family’s graveyard even though no one has been recently buried there in the last 150 years. Bill Lanier played by Jack Hedley […]
Brotherly Love – The Black Room (1935)
One knows they are watching a good movie when the credits roll and it introduces Boris Karloff as its star. Called The Black Room, the film is about two brothers who are […]
More Than One Kind of Haunting – Ghosted Volume One: Haunted Heist
Who does not love a good ghost story? Really, who? This book – Ghosted – is one of the best books about said phenomenon in years. Another does not even come to […]