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 August 2, 2021 - August 8, 2021 • Zola • Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings • Psychomania • The Spell • Annie • Death Car On The Freeway • Suicide Squad • Spiral • Val • The Face Of Fear •  -------------------------------------------------- Hello readers. This last week I devoured Are You In The House Alone?   A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999  edited by Amanda Reyes. You'll see I've been trying to do my TV Movie homework. Katie, the wife, is obviously a little annoyed by it. And maybe you will be too, but lets face facts, you'll just skip over them if you get frustrated. Katie is less fortunate. I've tried telling her what I've learned from Amanda Reyes' work that these 1970's to 1980's films were restricted by being on television which meant that they had to be creative in other ways. This restriction lead to a lot of the films being weird or turn into issue films that didn't hide their politics in subtext but laid it all out. I love how you never know what...

July 19, 2021 – August 1, 2021 • Phantom Of The Paradise • Liquid Sky • Curse of Frankenstein • Dracula A.D. 1972 • Return To Horror High • Rambo: First Blood • Cobra • Demolition Man • Stripped To Kill • Night Drive • Scary Movie 3 • Blade Runner 2049 • Space Jam • Blow Out • Born For Hell • Killer’s Delight • Looker • Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage • The Green Knight • As a writer with bouts of depression, procrastination, and perfectionism, of course I’ve been working on a book for what feels like forever. I did an ungodly amount of research about Cannon films and Orion films. The characters in my book were curating battling film festivals. One festival was celebrating Cannon and watching New Years Evil, Lifeforce, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Highlander, Missing In Action, and Masters Of The Universe . The other festival celebrated Orion films and the characters watched Silence of the Lambs, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Caddyshack, First Blood...

 July 5 , 2021 - July 18, 2021 • Werewolves Within • Jaws 2 • Defending Your Life • Deadline • Fear Street Part 2: 1978 • Black Widow • Terror Train • Skinner • The Hidden • Pulse • House of Dracula • Blade Runner • Sex, Lies, & Videotape • Brides Of Dracula • The Devil Rides Out • Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed • Fear Street Part 3: 1666 •   --------------------------------------- And with a two-week hiatus due to depression and the inability to get out of bed, we're back. You know that feeling that nothing you do matters and why keep up that writing habit. Nobody cares. That infectious idea that you don't matter, is so powerful. Even if you actively try to suppress it. Even if you don't actually believe it. It can still take over. This time I just had to say, "F*ck You!" to my feelings of inadequacy. What else can you do? They are always going to plague you. Some days you can get out of bed and beat the negative into submission. Other days it beats you, but...