The Company of Wolves (1984)

A while ago, I reviewed Greta, the latest from director Neil Jordan. It was not his best work. If you had asked me last week, I would have said that Jordan's best film was 2012's Byzantium. He's probably best known for The Crying Game, which I haven't seen in many, many years, and I'm concerned …

Christine (1983) – a deeper dive

Isn’t that the one with the killer car? The movie, absolutely. But in the case of the novel, it’s a little more complicated. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jEjd5XxrFnZQzvi4joPAC?si=6029fededb1248fe  Stephen King was hot shit by 1983. He’d had three of his novels turned into feature films, and all of them did very well at the box office. Producer Richard Kobritz …

Who I Am Now

So it’s been about a week since I started this little introspective tangent, and I guess now we’re getting into what one could term “the good stuff”. Here’s where I deal with the big realities, in the order they came. I’m not straight. I only allowed myself to believe this near the end of my …

Blood Red Sky (2021)

I've not exactly been keeping up with this year's new releases. There's a number of reasons for this. Even before the Delta variant and anti-vaxxers worked together to get infection rates back up, I rather felt like I might be done with movie theaters. I haven't really found myself missing that experience. So that leaves …

The Woman in Black (2012)

With only 200 pages, The Woman in Black is surprisingly short for a novel. I'm reminded of the sort of novels that we were required to read during the summer break for our English class. Published in 1983, it would be successful enough that it would see a number of adaptations. First adapted into a …

1982 Index

Cat People Creepshow Friday the 13th, Part III Poltergeist The Thing Best Non-Horror of 1982 I've never really gotten into E.T. The Extraterrestrial. I had the video as a kid, but it never captured me the same way it did others, and I recently revisited it to see if maybe age or nostalgia had changed …

The Thing (1982)

I can't possibly narrow down my favorite horror films to a single one. The absolute best I can do is to narrow it down to a top five. Interestingly enough, this is the first time I've written about any of those five. It's not a particularly obscure choice, and is the stated favorite of several …

Poltergeist (1982)

Let's get two things clear immediately: Forget this nonsense about the curse. Sometimes bad things happen. It's a tragedy that Heather O'Rourke and Dominique Dunne died so young. But the majority of the cast either lived long, full lives, or are still alive today.Despite the rumors, this film was not directed or co-directed by Steven …

The Sixth Sense (1999)

This Friday saw the release of Old, the latest film from director/writer M. Night Shyamalan. I haven’t made up my mind whether I will see it or not. I jumped off the Shyamalan hype train fairly early, after 2002’s Signs disappointed me when I saw it in theaters. For the longest time after that, his …

Ghost Story (1981)

It must be a thankless task to adapt a novel, especially a bestseller, into a feature film. Where do you start? How do you make it work? The average novel has far more content than can be portrayed in a mere two hours. What do you cut, and what do you keep in? And of …

Power Issue 2020: Where are they now? PART II

Continued from Part I 24. Carl Blackstone Perhaps next year, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce will return to the Power List, but the past year obviously presented a challenge. I genuinely don’t have anything else here. I considered contacting him directly on his Facebook or Twitter, but saying “hey, nobody gives a shit …