Final Girl Friday: Trish, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)

I’ve picked someone a little different for this weeks’ FG purely because she makes my heart swell with pure love. This Final Girl is the heroine of Stephen King’s 35th novel, she’s nine years old and she is also… The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Having spent more time that necessary Googling TG, I would say: …

Inktober 2019

This year for the first time, I decided to take part in Inktober. My friend Silvio suggested it and since I like a doodle as much as the next bored office worker, I thought why not? Well, I’ve learnt a couple of things about myself by Day 17 and I shall wax lyrical about them …

GUEST POST: Halloween & Me

By Meghan Lightle People love to complain if their birthday is too close to Christmas but I think being a Halloween baby is almost worse. Unless you happen to love having a Halloween themed birthday party every year of your childhood. Thankfully, I love candy and dressing up like Wednesday Addams so it wasn’t so …

Autumn TV Recommendation: Haunted, Season 2 (2019)

The producers (or distributors) of Haunted really know what's up with the timing of their releases. Last year Season 1 made my Autumn TV recommendation list just in time for Halloween and this year is no different. Now there's some discussion on the web about how real the cases are and honestly, I've decided I …

I Wish I Knew How To Quit Boo – Stephen King Edition

I've decided to leave the rest of my year (and then some) open for Stephen King. Books, that is but if the man himself wanted to stop by and take me on a couple of dates I probably wouldn't say no. Imagine the chat. Anyway, the UK is a rainy grey place right now so …

The Cleaning Lady

*TW: Sexual abuse* I don't really know where to start. Our newest horror antagonist, Shelly is all at once kind of brilliant, awful and incredibly sympathetic, given her horrific personal history. In fact, both central characters are likeable and it really makes a difference. Twisted road movie sequel anyone? What I can say for sure …

Four Films, One Week

Last week was a busy movie week for me and I managed to fit in not one, not two but four films, all of which were little bangers. Not a turkey amoung them which is nice to report. One of them may even qualify for my Top Three of the year. I'm being a little …

Final Girl Friday: Jen, Revenge (2017)

*TW: Sexual assault*  I won’t lie, this week might not be everyone’s cup of char - the film in question is a rape revenge action horror and looks at some truly horrible themes. It is however written and directed by Coralie Fargeat which makes a difference and was one of the reasons I could stomach …

3 From Hell

This certainly wasn’t a film that needed to be made but I’m not mad about it. Word on the street had me believing that it would be abysmal. It wasn’t that bad overall but it is guilty of something far worse… it’s kind of boring. Also, a lot of the content has been done before …

GUEST POST: The Ghosts of Halloweens Past

By Jillian Sandy Since Halloween present and future are rather up in the air at the moment (#unemployment), I will instead turn to the ghosts of Halloweens past.  And before I get too carried away, let the record state that I do spend an inordinate amount of time walking around cemeteries in October whenever possible.  …