Flametoad

Back at the beginning of September, I got an e-mail with a special invitation from Matt at horror website Flames Rising. He wanted to post one new monster description for each day of the month of October. He was contacting his network of game designers, writers, and horror aficionados to contribute to the project and wanted to [...]

Over the last week I’ve taken time out of my usual 12 to Midnight schedule to get caught up on Netflix movies that have been gathering dust on my entertainment center. Last week I watched I am Legend. This was better than I’d expected, and I didn’t feel the letdown that most people reported 3/4 [...]

In the absence of anything interesting to say, I thought I’d share with you a pair of totally unrelated videos. First, another “chupacabra” sighting from Cuero, TX. That’s about 30 minutes from my home town. The other video has embedding disabled, but visit YouTube for a bit of senseless violence. Technically work safe.

Maybe the acting stinks. Maybe the effects aren’t up to snuff. But based on what I see in this trailer, someone please explain to me why Dance of the Dead is going straight to DVD this October instead of getting a theatrical release? If it’s as good as as the trailer seems to be, I’d [...]

I just finished World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, and wanted to share my hearty recommendation. It’s written as a collection of interviews with survivors of a global zombie outbreak. The narrative is powerful, and you find yourself thinking “Yeah, if it was going to happen, this is how it would [...]