I don’t think anyone will accuse me of hyperbole when I say that the last twelve months have been, to use the scientific term, an absolute fucking nightmare. As I publish this, we’ve just passed the one year anniversary of the full Covid-19 lockdowns around the globe, and even this…

Back in 2009, I started Halloween Movie Fest as a way push my movie watching boundaries. It was a fun excuse to force myself to watch films that scared me, hoping I’d find a new appreciation for horror, and discover a new frontier of things to love. And it worked…

In the last Time Travel 101 post, we looked at the scarier side of time travel. It revealed a horrifying landscape, replete with nightmare time loops, unstoppable killing machines, scissor-wielding maniacs, slashers in baby masks, Dead-ites, and alien super-predators. …

Time travel is a dangerous endeavor. Once we start traversing the spacetime continuum in ways that defy the normal order of things, it becomes a much more dangerous place to be. The impact of any mistake we make can reverberate backward and forward in time, exponentially upping the stakes of…

There’s no doubt that when Nietzsche said, “The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself,” he meant it figuratively. Yet, if our boy Freddy Wilhelm had taken time travel into account, I’m confident he would’ve expanded his meaning to include a literal interpretation. The relationship each of us…

Have you ever been in the middle of watching a movie and realized you’re watching one of your new favorite films? The credits haven’t even rolled yet, but you know — like really, really know — that you’re watching an all-timer. …

Due to the love for film and books that beats in my breast like an eternal flame, I’ll never get to all the shows everyone else watches. A superpower enabling me to freeze time, or perform the limited sort of time travel from About Time, still eludes me, and with…

Horror is the clear theme of 2020, why not lean all the way into it with the joys of Christmas horror. — If you’re staying home and forgoing the usual family festivities this year — like you should be — then you probably have some extra time on your hands this Christmas. …

“If you are protected from dark things, then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.” — Neil Gaiman Just like Christmas, Halloween seems like it was designed in a think tank made up entirely of children. I mean, c’mon, it culminates…