
Final outing will be just six episodes long
by MICHAEL HINMAN
May-16-2013 - No Comments
Finding good horror while adhering to a spend-thrifty budget
Sometimes good things come to those who wait and sometimes a bargain bin can be your best friend. When I wrote my last column on Diablo II I was prompted to see if I could score other finds while also adhering to a spend-thrifty budget. And you know what? Its not that hard. Recently I had the pleasu ...
Read MoreLooking back to examine the spirit of the times
Oh the year 2000. So much promise, so much innocence. The world had just survived Y2K and the term 9/11 was innocuous, a number to call when a first response team was needed. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were a few years away and Hurricane Katrina and FEMA were then terms unknown. With so little re ...
Read MoreConfronting the many fears of an unknown, undiscovered land
Lately I have become interested in the idea of Western and have been delving into this vast and fascinating genre. There is something ominous and menacing about the western genre that I find most interesting. Westerns are eerie. Sometimes theyre even a little bit spooky. Imagine a tumbleweed blowing ...
Read MoreCould two subsets of the genre start to dwarf the rest?
Vampires are all the rage lately, with seemingly endless variations of the vampire myth being retold in unique ("American Vampire") and downright terrifying (I will sparkle you with love) ways. One cannot walk into a bookstore, movie theatre, or rent/buy a movie or video game without coming into ...
Read MoreTJ Rosene will look at the history of horror and its wonderfully creepy culture
Editor: "Through the Past Darkly" is a new biweekly column published Tuesdays. Welcome to the column titled Through the Past Darkly, a new space dedicated to conversing with the dead. Well no, we wont really be conversing with the dead, but it will be a column dedicated to unearthing older, lesse ...
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