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9766 Fri June 15 2007 - 18:43:46 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: I just watched three films last night. All of them are good: DEAD BIRDS, VENOM, and HAUNTED HIGHWAY. Dead Birds is definitely a damned good horror/western. There should be more of that besides RAVENOUS, GINGER SNAPS BACK, THE BEGUILED, and several other titles I forgot but loved it. However, I'm mixed on GRIM PRAIRIE TALES though. 9765 Thu June 14 2007 - 02:15:27 Fullname: Randy Email: rchand46@aol.com Comments: Yep, I saw it when it first came out on disc. I thought it was very good but I'd heard such wonderful things before hand that I was a tad let down. Still a fine fantasy, though. 9764 Thu June 14 2007 - 01:05:36 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: Pan's Labyrinth is an excellent dark fantasy film that is set in the Spanish Civil War. 9763 Wed June 13 2007 - 23:10:28 Fullname: Dave W Email: Comments: Randy, did you see PAN'S LABYRINTH yet? I still have to see that one. 9762 Wed June 13 2007 - 11:26:29 Fullname: Randy Email: rchand46@aol.com Comments: I made the mistake of renting THE PUMPKIN KARVER. What a dog! If you don't believe a low-budget slasher film can be a great big stupid bore, watch this one. 9761 Sat June 09 2007 - 13:33:14 Fullname: Randy Chandler Email: rchand46@aol.com Comments: I saw SHALLOW GROUND and enjoyed it. Yesterday I saw another good low-budget horror flick, LEFT IN DARKNESS. Check it out if you can. It's worth your time, I think. 9760 Fri June 08 2007 - 16:36:59 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: Just read the booklet called "Gentleman From Angell Street" by Muriel and C.M. Eddy Jr.. An interesting take on H.P. Lovecraft. C.M. Eddy is not only his friend but a collaborator with several short stories like "Ashes", "Ghost Eater", "Blind Deaf and Dumb", and "The Loved Dead". Anyhow, I just started reading Exit To Eternity by C.M. Eddy Jr.. It's pretty good so far. To be sure, I'm still reading Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton. Oh & BTW, I just watched a couple of good horror films, one's psychological and the other's supernatural. The Spanish film's called 13 Curses aka "And the Bell Chimes 13". It's a pretty good psychological horror film where the son of a dead sculptor came home to find a ghost of his Dad telling him to finish the sculpting project. The son did so reluctantly and madness ensues. The other one's a supernatural tale called "Shallow Ground". The film opens with a blood smeared teenage kid showing up at the Sheriff's office just as the Sheriff and his deputies were packing up to leave. Then supernatural manifestations started to happen. Not gonna tell you what they are. Check it out. Same with the first one I mentioned. 9759 Wed June 06 2007 - 23:30:36 Fullname: Capt Doody Email: Comments: There's a lad after my own fart. 9758 Wed June 06 2007 - 22:20:20 Fullname: Triple-D Email: Comments: I am peeing between the pines. 9757 Wed June 06 2007 - 15:12:52 Fullname: Turd Boy Email: Comments: I am reading between the lines. 9756 Wed June 06 2007 - 11:01:46 Fullname: Randy Email: rchand46@aol.com Comments: I'm reading a couple of classics: UNCLE SILAS BY Sheridan le Fanu and THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD by Charles Dickens (he died before he finished writing it so the mystery is never solved. Dan Simmons's upcoming novel will be about Dickens and this mystery. 9755 Tue June 05 2007 - 22:26:55 Fullname: Dave W Email: Comments: I'm reading space opera. Mike Resnick's SPACESHIP: MUTINY. So far, it's fun. 9754 Tue June 05 2007 - 11:18:16 Fullname: Randy Email: rchand46@aol.com Comments: Dark, I have THE GHOST STORIES OF EDITH WHARTON and loved them all. Nanci, thanks for the tip. I guess I'd better pop in over there in case the Devil needs defending... 9753 Tue June 05 2007 - 11:10:33 Fullname: Nanci Email: Comments: Hey Randy -- some folks are discussing DUET FOR THE DEVIL over at Ed Lee's board: http://horrorworld.org/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2962 9752 Mon June 04 2007 - 19:28:28 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: I'm reading Edith Wharton's ghost stories right now. They are quiet terrors with ghost dogs, vengeful specters, dopplegangers, and Miss Mary Pask. This latter one you ought to read and roll your eyes in exasperation and calling that character a wuss. That's how I reacted after reading "Miss Mary Pask". I'm sure The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton is still in print. You might want to check it in Amazon. 9751 Mon June 04 2007 - 16:45:10 Fullname: Randy Email: rchand46@aol.com Comments: I thought BROTHER ODD was better than the the Odd Thomas book that came before it. Koontz often seems to pad his stories to make them novel-length. THE ROAD is bleak--and beautiful in its own way. 9750 Mon June 04 2007 - 16:20:31 Fullname: Nanci Email: Comments: Hey Randy - what did you think of BROTHER ODD? I wound up skipping whole paragraphs as he gets pretty long winded. BROTHER ODD would have made a better novella than a novel -- tons of stuff could have been cut out to make it a better book (IMHO). I'm currently reading Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD. Very bleak and you know I don't do bleak very well.... 9749 Mon June 04 2007 - 11:38:15 Fullname: Randy Email: rchand46@aol.com Comments: I enjoyed the ghosts stories in SHADES OF DARKNESS, especially the Edith Wharton tales. I suppose you could call this a collection of quiet horror--things don't bump in the night so much as they creak and creep, leaving you with a melancholy chill. 9748 Sun June 03 2007 - 20:28:14 Fullname: Triple-D Email: Comments: I'm as high as an elephant's brown eye. 9747 Sun June 03 2007 - 19:13:21 Fullname: Turd Boy Email: Comments: I am so high I could go duck hunting with a rake. 9746 Wed May 30 2007 - 11:15:27 Fullname: Randy Email: rchand46@aol.com Comments: 1983. You can check it out at Amazon. Some of the customer reviews give story info. And the reviews are all good. 9745 Tue May 29 2007 - 19:29:58 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: Old BBC stuff huh? How old are we talkin' here? In the eighties or further than that? Last time I recalled some ghost stories adapted for BBC and PBS Mystery! hosted by Vincent Price. I was kinda disappointed with the productions. But I wondered if that's the one you're talking about. 9744 Tue May 29 2007 - 16:16:43 Fullname: Randy Email: rchand46@aol.com Comments: I might have to track that one down--and hope that I can find time to read it with this giant TBR pile looming over me like Godzilla. I just discovered that an old BBC production of classic ghost stories is available on DVD. It's called SHADES OF DARKNESS and features several adaptations of Edith Wharton tales. I've ordered it from Blockbuster online. 9743 Tue May 29 2007 - 16:03:40 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: Just finished reading Teri A. Jacobs' second novel, Secrets of the Bones. Really damn good book. Better than I anticipated. Strong stuff that brings back memories of when I first read Duet For the Devil. It's also imaginative and poetic. 9742 Sat May 26 2007 - 01:06:04 Fullname: Capt Doody Email: Comments: Catfish are jumping and Turd Boy is high... << 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 >>
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