With the new season coming out and the sort of emergence of the new DC movie continuity, I was like…oh, I should watch Peacemaker. I had seen The Suicide Squad and Creature Commandos, so it was an easy show to roll into, already being familiar with the character. Binged it up through the first episode… Continue reading Peacemaker: The Deconstruction of a Pathetic Asshole
We’re at a stage in the media landscape where I sometimes wonder if we should ever so slightly gatekeep the word camp, if only to preserve some sense of meaning. For the sake of this thought experiment, imagine camp in your head. Further imagine camp horror, specifically. Because we do this thing where we’ll say… Continue reading The Application of Camp in Horror Media
When I was about nine (give or take a year) some cable channel or other was re-running the 1990 It mini-series over the course of a week leading up to Halloween. My mom hadn’t seen it since in released the first time and thought it would be fun family TV. Now this might be horrifying… Continue reading I Hate the Book It, but Love the Mini-series
For horror movies, I love a good paranormal story. Something with demons or ghosts that present this sort of otherworldly threat. Mostly because I have the audacity to think I could take out a slasher, alien, monster, or otherwise corporeal menace. So I like a real threat.It's also one of the very few genres where… Continue reading Deconstructing Genre Expectations Through the Lens of Horror
A few years ago, a journalist bade the bold claim, on Twitter, that the Alien movies weren’t horror because they were set in space.I’ve always haunted a fair few movie and horror forums, and it was reposted there multiple times (here’s one of the places I saw it on Reddit where it’s still posted). No… Continue reading Refining the Definition of Horror (In the Dumbest Way Possible)
One of my favorite examinations of adaptation from book to movie or television is comics. That covers graphic novels, superhero comics, manga, webtoons, etc. All these types of comics while ostensibly in the same essential format present entirely different challenges.Graphic novels and completed short serials (ex. V for Vendetta, Gender Queer, 30 Days of Night)… Continue reading An Adaptation Casestudy in Comics
While traditional novels and short stories are the things I always come back to eventually, I’ve spent a lot of time working in other storytelling and writing mediums. I wrote plays as part of my theater education, audio-dramas as part of a larger team, and, for a number of years, narrative video games. And while… Continue reading Do You Have Onscreen Dragon Money?
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