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Reviews, essays, and reflections about horror in all its forms, with special emphasis on nostalgia and classic books and films.
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Faces of Death (2026) (opens the original)
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I’ve always loved gore effects, but I never had a taste for the real thing. I avoid videos of real-life violence and I don’t read true crime. I never clicked on beheadings or traffic fatality clips.Despite my distaste for reality gore, I was exposed to some of it during the wild tape trading days of the nineties. There was a very loose organization of freaks who mailed each other all manner of video weirdness. Stuff you couldn’t rent and, for the most part, was not legally available. Banned musi
Butterfly Potion, by Trent Zelazny (opens the original)
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In the past I’ve silently chastised people for morbidly waiting to read someone until they died. Yet, in this case at least, it’s exactly what I’ve done.I remember Trent Zelazny from the old message board days. He seemed like a good guy. Trent obviously had a troubled past, and quite possibly a troubled present. He alluded to addiction and inner pain.I also remember when his girlfriend died. I’m not sure of the reasons for it, but Trent poured his grief onto the pages of Shocklines. Not in any a
A Triumph of Shadows, by Harry Ringel (opens the original)
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I’m probably the only one in the horror community who reviewed Harry Ringel’s The Phantom of Skid Row. I’m probably the only one who even read it. More’s the pity.Ringel isn’t a hip, sexy author on the trendy indie circuit. His work isn’t extreme, explicit, or transgressive. He’s not part of the Stoker Club. In fact, he doesn’t seem very cool at all. At least not by the accepted standards of authordumb.The Phantom of Skid Row is an old-fashioned novel that could have been published in the mid ni
No Need to Bring Back Blockbuster (opens the original)
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I see a lot of people yearning for the days of Blockbuster Video. While I understand the pangs of nostalgia, I never loved the company, and I certainly do not miss them and their family-friendly policy that stifled adult creativity.I miss the days of little independent video stores, or my personal favorite, Erol’s. I don’t see them coming back anytime soon.Steaming is part of the reason video stores died off, but it wasn’t the only one. DVD was a massive blow. DVDs were made with the collector i
Shatter Dead (1994) (opens the original)
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Camcorders should be illegal.That was a battle cry for people who sat through way too many Shot on Video horror disasterpieces. The title is commonly shortened to SoV, but the o in Shot could easily be replaced by an i.There were a lot of backyard productions, home movies basically, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Ropes of ridiculously fake-looking intestines chowed on by buddies in very bad zombie makeup, lots of female nudity, attempts at humor that aren’t juvenile as much as prenatal.
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