Del Rio review
Richard Thomas does a close read / excellent write up of It Came from Del Rio, over at The Nervous Breakdown.
I Saw SAW.
SAW 3D status-sized review: best installment in the series in a while, now. Story’s tangled, sure, but not AS tangled. 3D’s fun, but not MY BLOODY VALENTINE fun. Gore’s over the top, Rube Goldberg’s working overtime from the grave, Jigsaw’s forever, but, all that aside, I’m finally getting a sense of this franchise: it’s caper
Seventy-Four Horror Movies
So, I saw that Paul Tremblay and Jesse Bullington threw down the seventy-four movie gloves, so I made up a list last Wednesday, then promptly blasted off for Minnesota without posting it, only just now remembered, thanks to Travis Hedge Coke’s list of ten. Also, I really wanted to read their lists, but really didn’t
Fun and Games: Night of the Demons
(Fun and Gore, really) Horror movies, for all their excess and transgression, are every bit as rulebound as the romantic comedy. Maybe even moreso. This Night of the Demons remake is no exception. There’s the big rules that have to be followed, like punishing the stupid: those who think having a Halloween party at the
Proof of Del Rio
supersweet. held this first and onliest copy in my hands today. soon there will be more. click the images for full-sized.
Gallery
[ click the thumbnail to see the full image ] Author-type photos: snaps. though these are all ancient, from sites and sites ago. fresher stuff’s likely on facebook.
Fiction Mingle
man, I’ve had people do illustrations for my stuff before, and had people send me CDs of music they’ve made based on my stuff (which rocked), but never audio, like, augmentation like this. also, win a DEMON THEORY.
IT CAME FROM DEL RIO: the cover
Full jacket here tomorrow, hopefully. And, yes, in case you’re wondering, this may, in the complete and total history of book covers, be the coolest. just saying. [ click it for the full size ]
Handling the Undead
Last summer — months after everybody else then as well — I finally hit LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, and was so completely impressed. To say it better: I was so impressed that the movie adaptation seemed pale to me, incomplete, boring. Which isn’t at all to say it wasn’t a wonderful film (I dig
It Came From Del Rio
[ no ISBN yet, Steve, so no purchase point, no cover you can release, what am I supposed to do here, loser? ] –> you can post a thumb of the author photo, yeah? [ yeah, whatever. I’m sure that’s exactly what everybody wants ] –> and, and I’ll kind of do a write-up that’s
Resident Evil: Afterlife
review up here. and, that big, hammer-axe zombie: coolest ever. want to know its whole story. want a movie about it, really.
Every Good Thing That Could Ever Happen in a Movie, it Just Happened in Machete. And then Some.
I remember, I remember I remember The night Grindhouse opened, I somehow lucked into sitting there at the Alamo Drafthouse, where the cups were special that night, matched the movie somehow, and the trailers, man: Hobo With a Shotgun, Thanksgiving, and Machete. Danny Trejo not just in a bad-ass role, but inhabiting that character. Explosions
Shotgun Exorcism
In a movie, no matter the genre, you will always become that which you were just pretending to be. So, this charlatan exorcist in The Last Exorcism, exposing exorcisms as fraudulent for a documentary crew, what do you think? In a horror movie, will he finally have to become a real exorcist, or might he
Two More Novels
Every once in a while, something especially cool happens. Like this — two-book deal with Dzanc, for Flushboy (2013) and Not for Nothing (2014). Which, a quick sort-of breakdown: –Flushboy‘s what I wrote when my wife said I never write any love stories. It’s this kid, pretty much indentured into working the drive-through window at
Living Twice at Once
Most directors can do one thing just really, really well. David Lynch, say, he can follow a telephone cord up and up such that you get all caught up in the languorous spiral, and that becomes not just the whole room, but the whole story. Wes Craven, he can rig a chase through a tight
The Fifth Element is Story
M. Night Shyamalan had his work cut out with The Last Airbender. Not only did he have to run with a different title than the original Nickelodeon series—thanks, James Cameron—but he also had to somehow condense sixty-one episodes (1342 minutes) into something feature length. Or, the trailers didn’t tell us otherwise, anyway, but let me
Three Movies, One (-ish) Book
Or, “What I did with my yesterday,” yeah. Book: PARKER: THE HUNTER. Pretty fun; very straightforward, and cool art. Though, the night before I was up until two or three in the morning, unable to look away from the second volume of SCALPED, “Casino Boogie.” I’ve always thought that SANDMAN or Y THE LAST MAN
All the Updating that’s fit to Update
New/excellent/killer/wonderful cover and isbn for the story collection, now called The Ones That Got Away. Was lucky enough to be in the fifty stories Brian Evenson selected for Wigleaf. Clutch of new stories over at Shadowbox, here. New story “Sunsets Unlimited” at Hobart. Review of Splice at the San Antonio Current. I think I’ve got
On Exodus
Or, the logo Jen Michalski’s got up over there’s so cool, I have to paste it here. Click on it for the post on “Exodus.”
Another Good Day
Looks like that “The Ones Who Away” story of mine’s going in Paula Guran’s soon-here THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR. Too, I think the version going in that’s the one I re-rigged for THE ONES THAT ALMOST GOT AWAY, my October/Prime collection.