“‘Midnight Mass’: Mike Flanagan Stumbles Trying To Mix Horror With A Message In His Latest Netflix Fright”

…man, that’s a pretty late mass. Continue reading →

“Is ‘It’ a New Kind of Horror Franchise?”

Writing this piece reminded me how hard it is to write about a film titled “It,” because, funny enough, “it” is a pretty commonly used word and that just makes everything confusing. Continue reading →

“Hulu’s ‘Castle Rock’ Explores The Stephen King Multiverse, But It’s Light On The Horror”

Castle Rock is maybe the single best embodiment of the problems I have reviewing TV: After just a few episodes, I’m not sure where it’s going, and I’m not sure how to review something like that. Maybe that’s not the point when you’re reviewing TV. Maybe just learn to review the TV you have. Regardless, Castle … Continue reading →

“The Unlikely Connection Between ‘It’ And ‘A Wrinkle In Time'”

Who else but me would watch A Wrinkle in Time and go, “Hey, Michael Peña’s character sure does remind me of Pennywise the Dancing Clown”? Nobody, that’s who. That’s why I’m the one writing about this silly nonsense and not, like, someone else.  I’m being a bit cheeky with this piece I did for Thrillist, but: Come … Continue reading →

Review: 1922, 2017, dir. Zak Hilditch

2017 has visited a flood of Stephen King adaptations upon us, most of them good (It! Gerald’s Game!), one of them less so (you can connect the dots from here!). Now we’ve got 1922 on our hands courtesy of those wacky non-advertising types over at Netflix. It’s good! It’s really good, in fact! It might be the … Continue reading →