Final Level Destination: Jeff Strand’s Fun Times at the Bloodbath A brand new game will soon be dropping into the marketplace, but it needs beta testers! So, messages are appearing in select gamers’ feeds, inviting them to download a copy, give it a play through.…

This videogame is killer … or at least it induces bloody act of violence. Gory horror and fun mash up good 'n gross in @jeffstrand.bsky.social’s satiric but slashy FUN TIMES AT THE BLOODBATH. #DeathsHeadPress @deadskypub.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/f...

I Hate People When They’re Not Polite: Office Killer (1997) Troubles are coming to the offices of Constant Consumer Magazine this week. A lot of envelopes featuring career updates on unwelcome pink slips have arrived. Though Virginia Wingate (Barbara Skowa)…

WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Hard times are coming to the employees of Constant Consumer Magazine … but pink slips and cut hours aren’t the worst when there’s an OFFICE KILLER on the prowl. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/o...

A Gathering of Ghosts: Aimee Pokwatka’s Accumulation Tenn has moved into her dream house with hubby Ward, son Anders, and daughter Aisling. It’s a bit run down, in need of some love, but it’s what she hoped for. It also happens to be the hope of a cr…

A filmmaker, her busy husband, and her rambunctious kids move into a new house where strange phenomena occur. Is the place haunted? Or is the family? #AimeePokwatka’s forthcoming ACCUMULATION is a gripping new slice of fright fiction. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/a...

Do You Ever Grieve for the Lives You Don’t Get to Live? Somnium (2024) Gemma (Chlöe Levine) has left her home town of Georgia behind and come to Los Angeles in search of a career in showbiz. She’s an aspiring actor, and though she has no prospects or leads, she’s got …

A young woman gets a job on the graveyard shift of a sleep help clinic, only to discover a creature lurking about the place … or is it all in her mind? SOMNIUM is an enjoyable sf nightmare flick, also a satire about LA and Hollyweird. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/s...

A Civilian During Peace, A Soldier During Wartime, We Are the National Guard: Southern Comfort (1981) A squad of Louisiana National Guardsmen are assigned the training mission of moving from checkpoint Bravo to Charlie across the bayou. Their commander Staff Sergeant Crawford Poole (Peter Coyote) e…

A squad of National Guardsmen humping the boonies through Louisiana swampland cross some locals and find themselves on the run and stalked in #WalterHill’s grim thriller, SOUTHERN COMFORT. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/s...

A former LAPD detective moves to the small NoCali town of Haven, and discovers that it’s not quite as heavenly as it appears. Murder and secrets abound in #RachelHowzellHall's FOG AND FURY. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/f...

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ghouls! it's been a weird week of website glitches and nuclear war threats. you might have missed we also revealed Evangeline Gallagher's gnarly cover art for Madeline Blondeau's debut novel PENITENTS! available for pre-order now: ghoulish.rip/product/peni...

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I Can Play Many Things but Never a Snitch! Massacre (1989) Opening with a mystery man in mirror shades pulling over to engage a lovely prostitute before dismembering her, Lucio Fulci Presents: Massacre then shifts gears to a horror film production that is …

WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAYS: Dire events plague a horror film production. Could they be a supernatural threat … or merely a giallo one? The oddball answers await (or not) in Lucio Fulci Presents: MASSACRE. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/m...

Running From Yesterday: Walter Mosley’s Known to Evil Leonid McGill is grappling with love life woes when trouble seeps into his work. His lover Aura admitted to finding herself a romance (“He is good company … and I get lonely.”), leaving her fella f…

Ace detective Leonid McGill gets involved in searching for and protecting a mystery woman from men who know about her secret ties to the most powerful man in NYC in #WalterMosley’s KNOWN TO EVIL. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/k...

Creatures, Creatures, Creatures, Hooray! Deathstalker (2025) After dispatching Dreadite soldiers charged with butchering the human survivors of a large battle, Deathstalker (Daniel Bernhardt) loots a few corpses of their rings and an amulet from a fading Pri…

Blood, beasts, and black magic trouble the realm. Only a ragtag band of outsiders led by a thief/warrior can hope to save the world in DEATHSTALKER (2025). @shudder.com consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/d...

The Wicked Flee and Are Not Pursued: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) When Pat Garrett (James Coburn) was a younger man, he was an outlaw. William Bonny, aka Billy the Kid, (Kris Kristofferson) was the regular hunting after him. The two wound up friends, and as they’…

A meditation on aging and a plot about a guy on the run who would rather not flee chased by another guy who doesn’t want to catch him, PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID is a fascinating, violent flick from #SamPeckinpah. @criterion.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/p...

The Shadow Over Lawrence County: Carter Keane’s Morsel Lou has a tough time with things, including a sick mother and a demanding job in real estate appraisal. However, her boss Ellis Katsaros offers to lighten things up a bit, offering some travel and …

Folk horror and human evil rub shoulders in #CarterKeane’s forthcoming novel, MORSEL. A feast of chills awaits readers in this one. @tornightfire.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/m...

And Then They Ran for Their Lives: They Call Her Death (2024) When Molly Pray (Sheri Rippel) and her husband Thomas (Patrick Poe) are enjoying a romantic picnic lunch on their acreage of farmland outside sleepy Sterling City, they do not expect it to be rudel…

WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Wishing for a low-budget splatter western that kicks much butt? Check out THEY CALL HER DEATH. @yellowveilpictures.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t...

Roy, Lilly, Moira, and Carol: Jim Thompson’s The Grifters To the world at large, Roy Dillon is a guy who hasn’t really gotten a break. He’s clever, quick on his feet, reasonably educated, a solid salesman, and though he could’ve gone to a big university o…

Roy Dillon faces troubles aplenty from women with agendas. Of course, he’s got some of his own in #JimThompson’s beautifully nasty noir novel, THE GRIFTERS. #MulhollandBooks @libraryofamerica.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/g...

Maul Culture: Forbidden Fruits (2026) Gorgeous Apple (Lili Reinhart) is the lead saleswoman with the Free Eden store, and with her fellow “fruits” Fig (Alexandra Shipp) and Cherry (Victoria Pedretti), she is pretty much the glamorous e…

A mall houses a coven of witchy young women. When they fear a snake in the grass revealing their secrets, will they turn upon one another to find out who and why? FORBIDDEN FRUITS is a satiric horror comedy that aims to unsettle. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/f...

Grifter’s Got an Irresistible Urge to be the Guy That’s Wise: The Grifters (1990) Roy Dillon (John Cusack) is on the grift, strictly low end games. Quick jobs that nab a few dollars here, maybe a couple hundred there. He’s not interested in big stakes, long games. His mother, Li…

Three con artists vie for dominance in #StephenFrears' classy, clever, and cool 1990 adaptation of #JimThompson’s THE GRIFTERS. @criterion.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/g...

A Treat or a Trick? The Basement (1989) When four strangers find themselves in a run down basement, they spend little time wondering how they arrived. Instead, they are mostly concerned with finding a way out. Unfortunately, their escape…

A lost film restored! Four strangers receive horrific visions of the future awaiting them in the 80s anthology flick, THE BASEMENT (aka THE BASEMENT HORROR ANTHOLOGY. @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/b...

I Am a Rational Woman. I Do Not Allow My Imagination to Play Games With Me: Daisy Pearce’s Dark is When the Devil Comes Hazel has come back to her parents’ home following a bad break with her husband Joe and a short stint in a psychiatric hospital. Her folks are going away for a few weeks and need someone to feed th…

A woman with issues is held prisoner by a wicked man who sees in her psychological devils to be exorcised. Is her devil a little more real than he expects? Psychological and supernatural horrors blur in #DaisyPearce’s DARK IS WHEN THE DEVIL COMES. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/d...

Calling Shotgun: Lee Goldberg’s Movieland LA Sheriff’s Department Detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone wish their caseload was the nice, easy, non-threatening break-in they are initially called into in their fourth adventure. The vic: An…

Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone return to solve a serial shotgun shooting case. Of course, Eve has plenty to juggle from her private and professional life as well in #LeeGoldberg’s thrilling police procedural novel, MOVIELAND. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/e...

Run, Run, Run, I Am Going to Find You: Ready of Not 2: Here I Come (2026) After surviving the horrific night of terrors that occurred after marrying into the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving) sits on the steps for a well earned cigarette as emergency services arriv…

Grace thought her troubles were over when she survived Hide and Seek (with psychos). They’ve only just begun! Radio Silence returns with the entertaining thriller, READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/r...

Saw #ReadyOrNot2 with @danielrobichaud.bsky.social today. Fun movie, good cast, very enjoyable if you don’t mind bad guys dying in cartoonish explosions of blood. ;)

So glad to see a 50ish Sarah Michelle Gellar still kicking ass. :)

Also, I am here for a Ready Or Not and #Abigail crossover. 😎

We’ll Meet Again, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When, But We’ll Meet Again Some Sunny Day: The Hit (1984) Ten years ago, Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) turned supergrass, ratting out his criminal crew to Parliament in exchange for a lovely deal. Before he walked out of the courtroom, the hoods he finked…

An informer, the assassin sent to rub him out, a gleeful assistant to the killer, and a woman in the wrong place at the wrong time take a road trip toward destruction in #StephenFrears’ meditative, chatty, and moody crime film: THE HIT. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/t...

A Very Bad Year: Bonnie Quinn’s How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains Kate is the park manager for the Goat Valley private campgrounds, and while the views are scenic, the location remote, and the forests verdant and lush … they also happen to be an ecosystem unlike …

A park manager faces ever more dangerous supernatural threats in an increasingly bad year. Can she find allies among the park's immortals? #BonnieQuinn’s HOW TO SURVIVE CAMPING: THE LADY IN CHAINS is enjoyable dark fantasy/cozy horror. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/h...

Captain Kirk vs the Blood-Drinking Melted Man: Bakterion (1982) When British biological weapons researcher Professor Adams (Roberto Ricci) discovers a viable pathogen for causing rodents to turn on one another, the military is interested. Their plans for anthra…

The intrepid investigator Captain Kirk tracks down a hideous mutant in the Italian/Spanish co-production BAKTERION (aka PANIC). Crazy flick for fans of ‘80s Italian horror. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/b...

A Nose for Mystery (and Treats): Spencer Quinn’s Cat on a Hot Tin Woof Bernie Little is a private eye, and his partner is his best friend and intensely loyal dog Chet. The two have handled quite a few cases together, and although Chet can’t always remember the details…

Chet (a dog) and Bernie (a PI) solve a missing persons—err, cat—crime with know-how and charm in their 16th book. Hijinks and suspense ensue in #SpencerQuinn’s delightful CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/c...

Self-Promotion Sunday: Carnage House Issue 10 The latest issue of Carnage House (Issue 10) dropped this week, and with some terrific entries from writers Winona Morris, Chris McAuley, Phoebe A. Xavier, E.K. Charny, Kasey Hill, Christine Morgan…

SELF-PROMOTION SUNDAY: I have a splatterpunk story appearing in the latest issue of the @carnagehouse.bsky.social zine. Have you checked it out? consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/c...

Finding Her Way Through Life, Love, and Lawlessness: Boxcar Bertha (1972) After losing her Pa to an airplane accident while he’s dusting crops in Arkansas, Bertha Thompson (Barbara Hershey) hits the rails to see the country and figure out herself and her place in it. Alo…

Depression era crime never looked so good as #RogerCorman’s production of a young #MartinScorsese’s flick, BOXCAR BERTHA. Now in a lovely new 4K transfer from @cine-matographe.bsky.social. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/b...

Escape is Not Impossible: Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory When young Lyle McCormack tried to invite Gloria Stephens to the swimming hole, he never expected her to politely refuse. And when he pressed her, he never expected her younger brother Robert to in…

A Black kid kicks the son of a landowning family in Jim Crow south, and is promptly sentenced to a deadly reform school where he faces human evil and supernatural threats. #TananariveDue’s horror novel THE REFORMATORY is one hell of a page turner. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/r...

Something Strange is Happening in Demonwood Forest: Demonwarp (1988) Years ago, a traveling preacher (John Durbin) and his beloved horse discovered a rare find in the region that would become known as Demonwood Forest. It was a rock encrusted steel machine that had …

WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAYS: What starts out as a killer bigfoot flick becomes increasingly weird as young people try to figure out what’s really going on in the low budget shocker, DEMONWARP. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/d...

Snitches Get Stitches and Wind Up in Ditches: Brandon Massey’s Bad Influence Adrian Wall is pretty keyed into his work life. Unfortunately, his home life is a wreck. Adrian and his wife Steph are separated. He and his thirteen-year-old daughter Harper don’t really talk abou…

A dysfunctional family is torn apart by their daughter’s new wicked friend in Brandon Massey’s psychological thriller, BAD INFLUENCE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/b...