SYNOPSIS This humorous, heart-pounding, feminist slasher takes on misogynist social pressures with one former scream queen as she is pursued by a serial killer impersonating the antagonist of her films. Former scream queen Barbra Jacobs desperately wants to break out of the box Hollywood has neatly packaged her in. Cast as the star of the […]
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Review: Don’t Let It Out by N.A. Betts
Synopsis: The assignment was simple: contain the forest. Don’t let anything out. FBI Agent Daniela Rojas arrives with a secret mission of her own. To uncover the truth behind Project Greenfall, a classified experiment buried by the Canopy Collective. RCMP Corporal Cade Mercer is there for a different reason. Two years ago, his wife vanished […]
Review: Carrying by Samantha Josephs
Synopsis SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeGolden Poppy Book Award Finalist She’s serving.She’s eating.She’s . . . Carrying. In this electrifying horror debut that’s equal parts funny and harrowing, a stealth trans woman desperate to maintain her picture-perfect life discovers that she’s seemingly—impossibly—pregnant. “Carrying is a totally […]
Review: Death In Its Many Forms by S.H. Cooper
Synopsis A young woman pulled from a bog. An office worker straying from routine. An author making deals in the dark. Death comes for everyone, but never strikes the same way twice. In these ten tales, it wears many faces, turns homes into haunted places, and often, it is only the beginning. Review S.H Cooper […]
Like Halloween? Watch these Movies
Spooky season is officially upon us! Therefore, I have achieved my final form: October Connor (C. J., if you’d like). As I can’t exactly act like I don’t consume horror year-round anymore, during the month of October I have been looking to watch more Halloween-themed films. While watching WNUF Halloween Special this week, it reminded […]
Review: This Is How The World Ends by Disco Barrington
Synopsis “Through apocalypse, dystopia, and renewal, the throughline of empathy, love, and human determination in Barrington’s THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS keeps the story profoundly human. An impressive debut that leaves the reader with a bittersweet, hard-won hope that feels especially resonant in our uncertain political moment.” – Seth Haddon, author of VOLATILE MEMORY […]
Review: The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson
Synopsis Award-winning author Micaiah Johnson invites you to Abernathy House. A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting for its match. A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death. At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the Confederacy […]
Review: Blood Drunk by Ben Shepherd
Dead good Synopsis Freddie Burns just wants ten pints, football violence, and the chance to take over his uncle’s fading gangland empire. But when a routine hit goes tits up, Freddie discovers a new kind of organised crime – one where vampires are real and monsters hide in plain sight. Good thing Freddie has a […]
Review: Traps and Specters by Philip Fracassi
Synopsis: A new collection of short stories and novellas from Bram Stoker Award finalist Philip Fracassi, featuring an introduction by NYT bestselling author Matt Dinniman. From the mind of Stoker and British Fantasy award-nominated author Philip Fracassi comes fourteen stories of the macabre that will frighten, disturb, and ensnare readers in a dark web of […]
Review: Her Bloody Vengeance by N C Scrimgeour
Roses are red, violets are blue, this book is grim and it’s good for you Synopsis Alderose Mortimer is no stranger to grief. As she roams from one bleak countryside village to another, killing monsters for coin, she’s haunted by the loss of her first love, slain on their wedding day with two puncture wounds […]
Review: This Movie Doesn’t End The Way We Want – Hailey Piper
This Movie Doesn’t End The Way We Want is an exciting fistfight through dark hidden memories, personified trauma rising from the depths of your mind, and a treatise on why cinema popcorn is the best kind of popcorn!
Like Creature Features? Watch these Movies
I am back! After tackling my Zombie movies / shows lists, I moved on to Slashers and Shark Week recommendations. It’s with the shark films that my mind really started to go toward all-out creature features. Another favorite sub-genre (although at this point I suppose it’s just all of horror really), and one that’s filled […]