What is it with me and tortured white guys?
I blame Peter Parker. For me he is the original tortured white guy. Ever since our next door neighbour (friendly neighbourhood white guy) gave me a copy of the latest Spider-Man comic when I was [...]
James Ferman and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Problem
In 1974 James Ferman, secretary of the British Board of Film Classification attended a British Film Institute screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. At the film’s finish he is reputed to have [...]
How to Write a Horror Novel in 10 Easy Steps
All right, I’ll admit it, that’s a kind of click bait title. I just wanted to entice you onto my blog in the hope that you might like what you see and stick around for a while, maybe even fill in [...]
Guilty Pleasures #2: God Told Me To
For this week’s guilty pleasure in my back catalogue of ‘films I have watched but rarely mentioned in polite company,’ I’m going back to the 1970s again. But where Grizzly can bearely (geddit?) [...]