I’ll be upfront with you, I genuinely had no idea how James Wan intended to continue his 2011 film, Insidious. With the seeming possession of the main protagonist, Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson), the death of the psychic hired to help his son, and the house in confusion following an astral travelling jaunt into the Further […]
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[Film Review] The Conjuring
Nearly every horror film that is released nowadays bills itself as “the scariest movie”, either of all time, or that particular year. It’s hardly surprising – after all, horror is one of the few genres that is focused on how they make the audience feel, as opposed to being clustered according to theme or iconography. […]
Inspiration behind Population, One
I haven’t done an ‘inspiration’ post for a while, so I thought I’d do one about my most recent Friday Flash, Population, One. (If you haven’t read it, do so now, for there are ‘spoilers’ ahead!) Now, my dad happened to tell me about a photo he’d seen online for a town whose population was […]
Am I really a horror writer?
Since the beginning of January, I have posted a Friday Flash for each week of 2012, which is a total of eleven stories. However, of those eleven, only three have been non-horror related (one fantasy comedy, one slice of life, and one historical). The other eight have encompassed zombies, mummies, vampires, Gothic horror, evil puppets […]
Here be monsters
In the wake of the hysteria surrounding vampires and the never-ending obsession with zombies in popular culture, and to a lesser extent werewolves, I’ve been rather fascinated by the other monsters that I feel have been somewhat ignored. While the rest of the world tries to decide whether it prefers blood-sucking, lycanthropy or good old […]
