House of a Reasonable Amount of Horrors

As Long As You’re Known For Something: Outlaw Fame & Friendly Infamy With John Waters

If you know me at all, you know I'm obsessed with John Waters, who's my favorite living filmmaker. The lovely Danica offered to let me write about him for the "Fame" issue of her webzine Film & Fishnets. Waters has had such a singular vision and unusual yet honest relationship with portraying fame and infamy. He means a lot to me, and so did writing this piece.

As Long As You’re Known For Something: Outlaw Fame & Friendly Infamy With John Waters

 

 

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Just the Discs: Cleopatra Jones & Superfly

I join Brian Saur for another episode of Just the Discs, this time to discuss Warner Archives' release of both Cleopatra Jones and Super Fly!

Just the Discs: Cleopatra Super Fly! 

Dead Ringers: Pet Sematary and Wake Wood

I'm behind on everything since I attended (the entirety of!) SXSW, but not long before I got to attend the premiere of the new PET SEMATARY, I got to talk to a rad crew and Mary Lambert's take on the Stephen King tale. We also discuss a nu-Hammer film that also mixes dead kids and dead animals, and I had a lot of fun finally appearing on one of my favorite genre-centric podcasts. 

 

 

Dead Ringers: Pet Sematary & Wake Wood 

Check out the amazing people on this podcast!  On Twitter! Oh God, we're all trapped on Twitter!

Nolan McBride

Emily Von Seele (Horrorella)

Michele Eggen

 

XOXO Horror in the Mist

Horror writer Joe Lipsett, also the co-host of Horror Queers, a podcast (and also a column) for Bloody Disgusting, was kind enough to ask me on a limited run podcast he's doing focusing on women in horror. We talked about some different topics before focusing on my choice for a memorable horror role: flippin' Marcia Gay Harden in THE MIST, truly one of the most effective antagonists in any modern genre picture. I had a terrible cold and took a lot of medicine so I wouldn't cough, so I might be completely daffy, but I had a great time! Joe really was a wonderful host.

Listen to the XOXO Horror Podcast on iTunes here

Horror Noire: Review at Daily Grindhouse

Phil Nobile Jr. of Fangoria and an executive producer of this fine documentary was kind enough to invite me to the premiere of HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR. Since I couldn't make it to L.A., I magnanimously settled for a screener. I was blown away by the fantastic work everyone put in, and this is easily one of the best horror film documentaries I've had the pleasure of seeing. Especially notable is the work of Black women on this project, as not only is the basis of the entire picture based on Robin R. Means Coleman Ph.D.'s book, but young, intensely knowledgable women of color made every facet of this happen. You can feel the hands of multiple generations here as well, and it makes such a massive difference. 

I put a lot into my review (I think I deleted about 1,000 words) because I admired this film so much, and (post 2/7/2019) you absolutely need to check it out on Shudder!

(I think this was posted less than a half hour after I sent it to my editor (Jon Abrams, who's amazing), which is the fastest turnaround I've yet experienced!)((Sorry to all the parentheses haters out there.))

[COMING TO SHUDDER] HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR (2019)

Underrated Horror Performances

Editor extraordinaire Jonathan Barkan (he has to deal with all my TALES FROM THE CRYPT columns every month) at Dread Central asked a bunch of cool kids what one of their favorite overlooked performances in a horror movie was. I also snuck in there! It's a lot of fun reading everyone's entries, and my excuses for not seeing PONTYPOOL yet grow thinner all the time. Check it out! (A clue to mine is a giant photo directly below!)

Horror Experts On Their Favorite Genre Performances That No One Talks About

Just the party, ma'am

I popped up on the Just the Discs podcast again to talk two comedies I love: 1987's DRAGNET and CAN'T HARDLY WAIT! Bonus for the two yearly visitors of this site: Here's my Letters to Cleo fan page I bring up in the episode.

Just The Discs - Episode 91 - DRAGNET / CAN'T HARDLY WAIT 

Favorite Film Discoveries of 2018

Over at Rupert Pupkin Speaks I went over a few (very few!) of my favorite first-time watches of non-new releases in 2018. I love looking over the year and thinking about what really stuck with me, and 2018 was a banner year for endlessly cramming movies into my brain, heart and eye holes.

Film Discoveries of 2018

Missing Christmas?

I wrote about two killer Santa movies (well, a movie and a segment) for my first stuff ever over at Daily Grindhouse! It was part of a really fun Advent horror calendar, and I highly recommend checking every day out. Big thanks for Rob Dean for asking and recommending me and to Matt Wedge for being a wonderful and encouraging editor. 

Christmas Evil

... And All Through the House, from Tales from the Crypt, 1972

Just the Discs: Our Top 5 Blu-rays of the Year!

For my 10th (!!!) appearance on Just the Discs, Brian Saur and I each chose our five favorite Blu-ray releases of the year... before barreling through a pile of runner-ups because clearly the meaning of "top 5" can't be too strict with the embarrassment of physical media riches this past year. 

 

Just the Discs: Favorite Blu-rays of 2018!