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Friday, 5 May 2023

Carnival Row, Season 2 | review by Rafe McGregor

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Triumph of the Franchise. The COVID-19 pandemic put paid to the traditional twentieth century distinction between the big and the small scre...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Blood Relations by Kristopher Triana (Grindhouse Press) | Review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Short story collection shifts impressively from gore and smut to grief and nostalgia. The first Kristopher Triana story I read involved a ho...
Monday, 24 April 2023

Evil Dead Rise | review by Stephen Theaker

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Evil Dead Rise is the fifth of the Evil Dead films, following Sam Raimi's brilliant original trilogy and a so-so remake directed by Fed...
Friday, 21 April 2023

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #73 is now out in paperback and ebook!

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free epub | free pdf | print UK | print USA | Kindle UK | Kindle US Welcome to Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #73 , edited...
Friday, 14 April 2023

The Black Phone | review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Child abduction story dials in supernatural element but avoids calling up fashionably exuberant characters. The individual whose name graces...
Monday, 3 April 2023

Children of Men | review by Rafe McGregor

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Climate change allegory. Children of Men is Alfonso Cuarón ’s adaptation of P.D. James’s dystopian novel, The Children of Men . Cuarón w...
Sunday, 26 March 2023

Pieces of Hate by Ray Garton (Crossroad Press) | Review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Horror collection shows gorging on hatred has stomach- and mind-churning consequences  Most of the stories within this horror collection fea...
Saturday, 11 March 2023

The World-Ecology of Climate Change Cinema – Rafe McGregor

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Climate Fiction ‘Cli-fi’ is an abbreviation of ‘climate fiction’, which was popularised in the last decade and refers to a category of genr...
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (William Morrow) | Review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Plague novel explores the power of friendship amid the delicate dance between life and death A rabies-like outbreak has invaded the world of...
Sunday, 19 February 2023

Just to See Hell by Chandler Morrison (Independently Published) | Review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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People suck, and evil wins the day: collection mixes up a nihilistic cocktail of addiction, depression, and violence. One character in Just ...
Friday, 27 January 2023

The Rack and Cue by David Owain Hughes (Plumfukt Press) | Review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Motorcycle gangs, bounty hunters, and sadomasochistic killers: nobody’s safe at The Rack and Cue.  Full disclosure: Plumfukt Press has publi...
Saturday, 21 January 2023

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (William Morrow) | Review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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  Ambiguity infiltration: a home invasion story unlike any you’ve encountered. The typical home invasion story involves a group of malicious...
Saturday, 31 December 2022

Texas Chainsaw Massacre | review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Idealism impaled: latest instalment in Texas Chainsaw Massacre die-nasty is a gore extravaganza populated by cardboard characters. If you fi...
Sunday, 11 December 2022

A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill (Vintage) | Review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Small-town kid confronts cape-wearing wolf and traverses the dark corridors of mental illness. A Cosmology of Monsters tackles many element...
Sunday, 27 November 2022

Bad Candy | review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Unsavoury horror anthology mostly lives up to its name Chilly Billy (Corey Taylor of Slipknot fame) and his sidekick Paul (Zach Galligan) ho...
Saturday, 12 November 2022

Blood Red Sky | review by Douglas J. Ogurek

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Hm. They already did a plane with venomous snakes on the loose. So how about… vampires? This vampire version of Snakes on a Plane (2006) ge...