31 Days Of Horror: Black Lake Salem Horror Festival movie review
K/XI’s feature-length debut about a South Asian folktale is a gorgeous, poetic, atmospheric allegory of trauma and revenge. Horror movies have a tendency to tip their hand, letting you know … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: Pumpkinhead (1988) horror movie review
Witchcraft meets folk horror meets creature feature in Pumpkinhead, a frightfully good tale of Appalachian terror that holds up exceedingly well! Witches on film don’t exist solely to bewitch young … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: Witchcraft (1988) horror movie review
With its dollar store costumes and Casio soundtrack, the only horror on this shot-on-video dreck is that it’s spawned FIFTEEN sequels to date! Let’s face it, as horror lovers, we … Continue reading
31 Days Of Horror: Viy (1967) horror movie review
Russia’s first horror movie, based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, is an exquisite example of psychotronic Folk Horror! If you’re reading this via some form of digital device, … Continue reading
SoCal Gothic & The NEW American Dream: Hxxs – Valley Fever album review
With Valley Fever, Bakersfield, CA’s Hxxs dream of a new world, conjuring it into being with beat-ific communions and synthetic sanctified calls to arms. If America is the land where … Continue reading
Happy Solstice! Hermione Harvestman – SOLIS : A Sonic Solstice Ritual for Winter Witches & Third Speaker in the Locus Tempus (1979)
Warm Synths For A Long, Cold, Dark Night When you think of midwinter rites and rituals, you likely think of yule logs, ancient hymns, spiced eggnog, holly, ivy, fairy lights. … Continue reading