Category Archives: horror

RIPPLE #10: John Shirley

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on January 14, 2008. Filed under Books, Fiction, Gurdjieff, John Shirley, Music, Politics, RIPPLE, aliens, constantine, hellblazer, horror, interview, punk, sci fi. No comments.
Today on RIPPLE: Ray Carney and co-host Ryan Dawson interview author and screenwriter John Shirley on his latest work, the WGA writer’s strike, his musical projects, and more. Part one of a two part interview.

The Yellow Sign: Manuscripts, Codices, and Grimoires (Part 2)

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on October 8, 2007. Filed under Books, Cinema, The Yellow Sign, cthulhu, film, horror, lovecraft, necronomicon, occult. 6 Comments.
In The Club Dumas , and later on-screen in the film adaption The Ninth Gate, there’s an incredibly evolved narrative playing with the idea of both fiction and magic as being the result of a game played out by book fetishists. The novel is substantially more engaging than the film, as a whole sub-plot involving the internecine [...]

The New American Hero

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on September 28, 2007. Filed under Cinema, Lit, dexter, hero, horror, psychopath, season 2, series premiere, showtime, slasher, western. 2 Comments.
The New American Hero Jason Stackhouse Stop reading. It’ll keep. The first thing you do is head over to the torrents section and pull down Dexter 1.01. (Or order the Dexter Series 1 (DVD).) The show is brilliantly written and Michael C. Hall is a powerful, subtle talent. Of more interest to me, Dexter Morgan embodies a [...]

Roky Erickson’s Back!!

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on September 14, 2007. Filed under Cinema, LSD, Music, People, Psychedelia, Weird, blues, crazy, horror, mental health, roky erickson. 2 Comments.
Roky Erickson’s Back!! (and boy was he missed) Wes Unruh I’m no expert on Roky Erickson. I am a fan, and have been ever since I first heard the alchemical treatise ‘Slip Inside this House.’ [display_podcast] His voice is astounding, a blues-drenched psychedelic scream that is easily on par with [...]

Un Gatto Nel Cervello: Cat In The Brain

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on August 6, 2007. Filed under Cinema, Weird, film, fulci, gore, horror, movies, violence. No comments.
A Cat in the Brain Lucio Fulci Wes Unruh I think it would be fair to say that I’ve never seen previous film from Lucio Fulci, the director and star of the film ‘Un Gatto Nel Cervello,’ meaning I have no idea what parts of the film are bits cut in from his previous work, and [...]

Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on July 31, 2007. Filed under Cinema, Weird, crazy, experimental film, horror, television. 1 Comment.
The Kingdom I & II AKA Riget Wes Unruh Lars Von Trier’s Danish miniseries The Kingdom is one of the few television miniseries I’ve repeatedly gone hunting for both online and off, usually when I catch a glimpse of what passes for entertainment in the mid-day on network and remember how good serial hospital drama could be in the hands [...]

The Host

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on July 30, 2007. Filed under Cinema, Weird, fantasy, film, horror. No comments.
The Host Wes Unruh

A Long Road Out of Hell

Written by jcurcio. Posted on June 10, 2007. Filed under Cinema, horror, movies, psychological. 2 Comments.
A Long Road Out of Hell Jacob’s Ladder James Curcio Like most kids in America, I grew up on the programming that is made available through the mass media. Like most who grew up in the 80s, before the real boom of cable and then the Internet, by today’s standards I was relatively inexperienced about what was out [...]