Month: January 2013

  • Crash Analysis: THE HAUNTING OF WHALEY HOUSE (2012)

    A fairly decent independent effort  A guide at a haunted house gives her friends a private tour  Actor Graham Denman (Craig Gavin in the movie), told viewers during the behind-the-scenes footage to look for THE HAUNTING OF WHALEY HOUSE’s release in theatres during July 2012, but writer/director’s Jose Prendes’s $115,000 film, shot in twelve arduous…

  • Crash Reports: RED AGENDA

    Sorry, no movie review tonight. Normally, I have them prepared many weeks in advance. However, two things happened: I have watched too many shitty movies to even warrant a review, and that includes FRANKENSTEIN (USA/Japan, 1994), and V/H/S (2012), which is B/A/D – plus, I’ve been writing a horror novel. The novel’s based on my…

  • Crash Analysis: MIDNIGHT SON (2011)

    If you liked MARTIN and VAMPIRE’S KISS… A young man comes of age – and he’s out for blood Scott Leberecht cut his teeth on movies as a visual effects specialist for such films as ERASER (1996), SPAWN (1997), and SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999), and as a screenwriter and director, MIDNIGHT SON is his first full-length…

  • Cottle and Kirby saved what CTHULHU they could You can’t go home again – unless you want to lead the masses Apparently, screenwriter/executive producer Grant Cogswell sold all of his worldly possessions to make the movie happen, and that includes his homestead. In August 2008, the movie was released to but a few theatres, and…

  • Crash Reports: Home Is Where the Horror Is

    My critical essay, “Home Is Where the Horror Is” has just been published by the academic journal, Studies in Gothic Fiction. I wrote the piece while at Wilkes University for my final MFA project. The article concerns the role of visiting a house of horror, and focuses on the cinematic likes of PSYCHO (1960), THE…