I'm a huge Vincent Price fan and finally got around to watching 1968's  "The Witchfinder General" directed by Michael Reeves and starring Uncle Vinnie. It's not a great movie but if you're a fan of Hammer Horrors, you'll be right at home. After viewing it, I was inspired to write my own Witch finder story. Enjoy!

Click here to read "The Witch Finder".

This is another one of my short stories. When you live in New Zealand, you become a bit player in the ocean's great drama.  Couple that with my wife's Scottish heritage, my  love of folk horror, and you get "Hadesa, My Love". Grab your slicker and come join me as we face the stormy seas together.

Click here to read "Hadesa, My Love".

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“The Haunting of Hill House” and “Hell House” are classics of the haunted house genre. You can prove that by adding up how many times they’ve both been copied, re-imagined, and straight-up ripped off. If you want to tell a haunted house story, you can learn a lot from these two books, but which house haunts the hardest?

Click here for a fiendish fright fight - Hill House vs Hell House. 1 2 3 - Haunt!

I LOVE " The Shining". The terror that Shelley Duvall manifests as Wendy Torrence is essential to the film. Jack Nicholson’s performance is iconic insanity, but it is Duvall’s unhinged terror that sells Jack's decent into murderous madness.

Click here for my praise of the late great Shelley Duvall in "The Shining".

"The Wicker Man" is a slice of 1970s cultural conflicts as it follows the constipated Sergeant Howie to Summerilse as he investigates the disappearance of a young girl. "Midsommar" is set almost fifty years later when alternative lifestyles based on ancient blood-thirsty religions are less a taboo than a study-abroad option.

Click here for my fanatical devotion of the fatal folk horror found in "The Wicker Man" and "Midsommar".

The first movie I remember seeing was “The Wizard of Oz” and it has influenced me more than any other film in my life. The second is George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" but that's a horse of a different colour (hint: blood red).  

Click here for my declaration of deep eternal love for "The Wizard of Oz".

 In 1896, H.G. Wells wrote a novel about a disgraced scientist who retreats to a tropical island to conduct forbidden medical experiments, namely, turning animals into man-like sentient creatures. “The Island of Dr. Moreau” asks the question: what is ‘human’? What separates a man from a beast? And where is the balance between scientific progress and scientific horrors?

 So why is this classic novel so impossible for Hollywood to get right?

Click here for my take on Hollywood's crimes against "The Island of Dr. Moreau".