Tag: horror
member name: Bill F.
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September 28, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
I am always on the lookout for a few good books. What have you read lately that is worth recommending?
For me, I just recently finished The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore and quite enjoyed. I also read . . .
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October 14, 2007 01:04 AM EDT --
Monster Island is the first novel in a trilogy by David Wellington. Set entirely in New York City, it is about a small group of survivors fighting there way through hordes of zombies in order to score . . .
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May 05, 2008 07:56 PM EDT --
I had no idea what to expect from Cloverfield , so I was especially surprised by how great a movie it was. This is a modern day monster movie akin to the Japanese Godzilla films of yesteryear, but . . .
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September 20, 2007 12:52 AM EDT --
A new movie called Unholy was just recently released on DVD, and it stars Adrienne Barbeau as well as Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's a pretty low budget horror . . .
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September 24, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
I just saw Resident Evil: Extinction tonight and really loved it. I only liked the first movie and really disliked the sequel, so I didn't have high expectations for this one. I left the theater thinking . . .
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June 12, 2008 12:02 AM EDT --
If you like deliberately cheesy and bad horror and science fiction movies, then chances are you have seen a Troma movie. This is the company that put out classics like The Toxic Avenger . Netflix recently . . .
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July 19, 2008 07:01 PM EDT --
I don't know why I even watched The Ruins , especially because I read the book and hated it. Maybe I expected it to be somehow better than the book since the author, Scott Smith, also wrote the screenplay. . . .
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November 08, 2007 10:26 PM EST --
I Am Legend is a science fiction horror story about a vampire apocalypse and the last human left alive on Earth. It has been adapted into movie starring Wil Smith and is due out late this year. I thought . . .
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January 01, 2008 02:34 PM EST --
Yesterday, I caught an afternoon showing of Aliens vs. Predator 2: Requiem , and I actually liked it. I thought it was a little better than the first movie, and the story worked pretty well. Basically, . . .
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March 27, 2008 11:36 PM EDT --
I just finished reading the first book in E.E. Knight's awesome Vampire Earth series. It's called Way of the Wolf , and is set 60 years into the future where the world has been overtaken by . . .
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May 23, 2008 11:48 PM EDT --
Last year, I decided to read the book I Am Legend before watching the movie. I never got to see the movie while it was in theaters, but I did just recently rent it now that the DVD has been released. . . .
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March 18, 2009 09:43 AM EDT --
I am a sucker for the Underworld movies. Vampires and werewolves together in a medieval setting - How could I pass that up? I knew going in that Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans wasn't going to . . .
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November 21, 2007 10:39 AM EST --
Did you know that the son of filmmaker Mel Brooks is a best-selling author? His name is Max, and his first novel was a strange and unique militar-style handbook called The Zombie Survival Guide . Max's . . .
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February 05, 2008 12:25 PM EST --
Witch's Canyon is a novel from Jeff Mariotte that is based on the TV series Supernatural. It's a totally originally story not based on any episode, though it would probably make a fine episode . . .
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February 17, 2008 11:45 AM EST --
This weekend, I saw the new movie Untraceable , with Diane Lane. No, I didn't actually see it with her, but she is the star of the movie. This movie had a lot going for it in terms of story and . . .
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May 26, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
Even though I was doing some home improvement projects, I still managed to watch a few during my beaks. Here's what I saw between Friday and today:
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull - Decent . . .
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June 06, 2008 10:43 AM EDT --
I am really enjoying E.E. Knight's Vampire Earth books, and Choice of the Cat is the second novel in that series. These books are set a few decades into the future where Earth has been taken over . . .
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March 26, 2009 03:17 PM EDT --
Dead Sea is another zombie novel from horror writer Brian Keene. It's quite different from his debut zombie novel, The Rising , in that it really puts a lot of focus on the characters and not . . .
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March 17, 2008 09:16 PM EDT --
I saw the new movie Doomsday this weekend at the theaters. It's an extremely violent new horror/thriller from Neil Marshall, who also did Dog Soldiers and The Descent . In this movie, Scotland . . .
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April 12, 2008 04:51 PM EDT --
As much as I have loved all of Neil Gaiman's previous work, Fragile Things was a boring waste of time. It's a collection of short stories and poetry, plus one novella, but hardly any of it was . . .
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