Halloween

  • John Connolly’s ‘Night & Day’ expresses sinister-seasoned snippets…

    Those awaiting more dark and twisted tales of troubled detective Charlie Parker will have to wait until 2025 (and the forthcoming novel The Children of Eve) but in the meantime author John Connolly brings together an anthology of the bizarre and strange and an additional essay in Night and...
  • Exorcise Regime: The Dybbuk stops here for Quantum Leap’s Halloween…

    It’s 1934 and Ben has Leaped into the body of Father James Davenport, a priest summoned to a imposing, fog-shrouded streethouse on Hallowe’en. It seems that the young Daisy Grey, who has recently passed her eighteenth birthday, has been possessed and her family want her to receive an exorcism....
  • Whose knife is it anyway? Halloween ‘Ends’ with muddled murder missive…

    Corey Cunningham is plagued by his accidental role in the death of a child and Haddonfield, a town with its own tragic, history is not the kind of community that forgives easily. Laurie Strode recognises Corey as a fellow outlier, scarred by tragedy and does her best to help. ...
  • Werewolf by Night – Hammer horror and humour take the lead…

    Ulysses Bloodstone is dead, but the legendary master of monster-hunters, estranged from his own daughter Elsa to whom his power and title would likely have passed,  decided that posthumously, others must fight for his title. And so one stormy night, a motley crew of status-seeking slayers gather at the...
  • Halloween Kills: Slasher franchise takes stab at social commentary…

    Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and grand-daughter Allyson (Andi Matichak)  have finally defeated Michael Myers, combining their hearts, minds and sheer determination to escape the legacy of the murderer who has haunted Haddonfield for generations. Michael was trapped under the Strodes home, doomed to...
  • The Walking Dead’s Quiet Place: If these walls could talk…

    As the long-lost Connie and Virgil seek to escape the pursuing mob of the undead, they think they might have found salvation in an old house. But even as the zombies circle outside, Connie begins to sense there’s something off in the house. She can’t hear anything, but she...
  • Hallowed Grounding: #TimesUp for Michael Myers?

    Forty years ago, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was the only survivor of a horrific massacre as Michael Myers turned the holiday of Hallowe’en into a buzzword for bloody murder. Though her physical scars healed, the mental ones did not and she always believed that the almost supernaturally-empowered figure...
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