Exclusive Interview: Author Joe R. Lansdale on His New “ESSENTIAL HORROR” Collection By PAYTON McCARTY-SIMAS For nearly 40 years, Joe R. Lansdale has been making readers’ skin crawl. The prolific author, sometimes associated with “splatterpunk” (a term he...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ALEXANDRA HELLER-NICHOLAS TALKS “1000 WOMEN IN HORROR” AND “CHAIN REACTIONS” By PAYTON McCARTY-SIMAS For over a decade, award-winning film critic, author and programmer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas has been publishing books...
RETROSPECTIVE: A Faux Doc About A Faux Doc – 1999’S “CURSE OF THE BLAIR WITCH” In Context By PAYTON McCARTY-SIMAS (Writer’s note: When revising my second book, That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film, last summer, as is...
Movie Review: Another Look At “LURKER” By PAYTON McCARTY-SIMAS “I feel like I met you guys for a reason,” perennial hanger-on Matthew, played by Théodor Pellerin (Solo, On Becoming a God in Central Florida), tells Oliver (Archie Madekwe of Gran Turismo and...
Movie Review: “JIMMY AND STIGGS” Is A Day-Glo Dose Of Alien Mayhem! By PAYTON McCARTY-SIMAS Starring Joe Begos, Matt Mercer and Riley Dandy Written and directed by Joe Begos The Horror Section “Fuck you, you fucking dumb alien fucks!” is both a typical bit...
