Universal Monsters I think I like the concept of the Hollywood Universal Monsters better than the original movies. The source material novels for Frankenstein and Dracula were great, classics I first read as a teenager in high school, but all the...

Inside 2007's "Inside" was what the critics dubbed as "part of the new French Extremity Movement". It was one of the best horror movies of the year, and was talked about with the other French horror breakouts that year, "Martyrs"...

Xenozoic Tales I was excited to have Mark Schultz, the creator, author, and artist of the classic Xenozoic Tales comic book (and later writer for Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse), as a guest on my podcast! He says (I'm old; the...

Evil Dead The first Evil Dead might have been a groundbreaking movie for the time, but it arrived on the screen a little too early! I was still a teenager, living in white-trash northern Florida with my conservative, military parents,...

Dead Alive For years, Evil Dead was my favorite movie. I even have it tattooed on my knuckles! There were plenty of horror fans telling me that the new version of Sam Ramia was New Zealand's Peter Jackson. I eventually saw his...

Cosmic horror has been my absolute favorite ever since I started reading books and comics as a little kid! When I first stumbled across the work of HP Lovecraft in the '80s, I had found my niche in life!...

American Psycho I loved the book American Psycho when it first came out. It was ultra violent and a clever, tongue-in-cheek critique of the yuppie Wall Street era. I wasn't as big on the movie; I felt it missed a lot of...

Lovecraft Monsters Back in the late '80s, I picked up a Lovecraft collection from Tower Records. The cover art, by Michael Whelan, drew me in, and when I read it, my world changed. This was the first time I really...

Chimera States Ian Domowitz asked me to portray a praying mantis (but make it evil he insisted) and a sort of steampunk girl with goggles and gears in her hair, back to back in what he described as "a Charlie's...

Latest Podcast In this latest episode of my long running podcast, horror author and recent escapee from the realm of Hollywood script writing TJ Payne(hey, Stephen King likes his work; how bad can he be?) talks with me about his...