Artwork by Tee Wood Back in 2022, I co-produced an event called Campfire Tales for the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival....

It hasn’t always been easy being a lifelong Predator fan. John McTiernan’s Arnie-starring classic came out in 1987, when I was ten, but...

Sally Hawkins in Bring Her Back *Minor spoilers below. Just the other week, I bemoaned the utter lack of feeling and originality in the...

Back in 2021, Netflix released a trilogy of films based on RL Stine's Fear Street books. As someone already reading Stephen King and...

When Aussie (transplanted to Aotearoa) author Garth Jones offered me an early look at his latest short story collection Black Pills , I...

Day 1: Oddity (2024) Kicking off 31 days of horror with this new Shudder release. Irish filmmaker Damien McCarthy is 2 for 2 in my...

The only good bug is a dead bug. Paul Verhoeven is a straight-up mad genius, the kind we don’t get enough of anymore. Verhoeven was...

This wild dose of Maximum King is a coked out whirlwind of sentient machines gore and pure unadulterated fun. Maximum Overdrive is often...

On 1st March this year, I got to see Queens of the Stone Age again for the second time after first seeing them in Melbourne on the Era...

The other week I was asked if I could review Homegrown, the all-NZ music festival in Wellington. Unfortunately, it was a last-minute...

Alex Garland’s fourth film, and third with indie slash major film studio A24, has already kicked up a fuss in the States before its...

I first caught Tremors in the cinema back in 1990 and dug it, but was kinda bummed that the amazing creature on the poster was nowhere to...

The Exorcist is one of those books I’d put off reading for many years, mainly because the film is so ubiquitous and all-encompassing that...

Beware the Moon & Boneface Tavern present... Swamp Meet! Rock on down to Boneface Tavern on Sunday March 10th, as we unleash our first...

After burning myself out on 31 Days of Halloween viewings last October, I took a more relaxed approach to January Giallo, managing 11...

Sticking with the Italian / Argento theme of last month's January Giallo, I watched the new documentary on the Maestro Dario Argento...

Below, you will find a new short story, The Beach House, which in its original 350-word form was a finalist in the Australian Writer’s...

I watch more old films and rewatches than new releases in any given year. This isn’t due to any aversion to modern cinema, I just can’t...

I managed to read 30 books this year, less than last year but I’m fine with that - my only real goal is to read a good mix of books from...

Hey its Christmas already! So here is my Xmas horror story 'Night of the Yule Goat' which can also be found in my book '20,000 Bloody...