• The 2017 Samhain Awards

  This list represents an unhealthy level of engagement with horror cinema. I say that every year. That said, hasn’t been a very strong year for the genre. Should be more of a blip than a trend, there are great works on the way. In the meantime, there have been a lot...

• 2016 Reading List: Too Much, Too Fast

  The last time I offered up a list of book recommendations, it was 2012. Most people reading this, of course, weren’t even born then, so you can’t imagine how intense those days were. We were truly living on the edge: overloading our senses with new experiences, making peace with our...

• The 2016 Sahmain Awards

  This list represents an unhealthy level of engagement with horror cinema. As ever, most of that shit was garbagewater. As ever, it was worth it. Indie auteur weirdos stay killing it, and thank Baal for that. This year's notables were the gorgeous claustrophobia of The Survivalist, the wild &...

• The 2015 Samhain Awards

  I watched way, way too many violent and strange films to make the list this year. It was a good call. Most of them, obviously, were terrible. Some survived. Here’s a quick guide to the near misses: The Final Girls was a goofy, nicely shot horror comedy flick I recommend despite...

• Intelligent Horror Films 2014

  It seemed like a rough year for horror, but once I did the math: I was wrong. Big, stupid horror spectacles, all plopped out by the same algorithm responsible for every mass market scare flick since Shamalyan excreted The 6th Sense, have done great at the box office. This idiot...

• Ask Hump Jones 2013 | Halloween Movies

  One question this time around and I won't even quote it: basically, I was asked this morning to recommend some fucking awesome horror films. I would definitely like to do that, but first, we should get about thirteen things out of the way. I am assuming you've already seen Cabin in...

• A Toast to Clare Petty

  "It was not a clear cut case." Clare Edward Petty would emphasize that sentence repeatedly during his interviews with author David Martin; he wanted to establish his doubts for the written record. It was the bloody end of the 1970's and Martin was gathering material for his book, Wilderness of...

• 2012 Reading List: Year of the Jellyfish

  The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke. Of course, James Burke was a big picture kinda guy, so as he mentions in the Acknowledgements, this book was actually the work of "Juliet Brightmore, Angela Dyer, and Robert Updegraff." This book is intended as a "Companion" to a PBS TV series...

• 5GWTF: Calculation and Control

  Politics is mostly marketing, and power is mostly pursued by those who would abuse it. After centuries of highly consistent behavior patterns among elected officials, there is little point in getting angry about politicians, lying. This is a basic matter of tradecraft and daily routine, part of the job description,...

• 5GWTF: The Post-Everything Future of War

  On the auspicious date of August 17th, 2011, Barack Obama was looking ahead. Faced with the recent actions of Anders Brievik and contemplating the immanent 10th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, he stated: "The biggest concern we have right now is not the launching of a major terror operation, although...

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