Dark Horror Tales

  Plot: Desperate to connect with family, Evie accepts her cousin's invitation to attend a wedding. Once there, she learns the grim truth about her origins. Imagine using a website to find your ancestors and then finally meeting someone who readily invites you to a wedding at a castle. Sounds too good to be true. A once in a lifetime of an opportunity, or so it would seem. Even if that person is your family, you have just met this person. Would you just go and put your complete faith in that person.

  This week’s Horror Book Recommendation is ROOM FOR RENT written by Noelle West Ihli.  Published by Dynamite Books, ROOM FOR RENT is on the bestseller’s list for Horror Suspense and Vigilante Justice Thrillers. 

  Founders day may be a few months away but that doesn’t mean that horror filmmakers are not going to use it as a central theme for a slasher movie.  Yes, politics can too be a core theme for horror movies. Nothing scary than real world issues, is there? 

  Plot: A woman accepts a job in a theater where she experiences a strange occurrence when she plays an old reel. Director’s (C.I. Smith) note In the midst of the pandemic I’d been working on film and TV projects. However none of them felt relevant  to what’s happening in the world right now. Anxious, disturbed and concerned by the impact of Covid-19 and subsequent lockdowns had on the world. I am particularly worried about the  impact on arts, entertainment and creative industries. Not least the impact on filmmaking and cinema distribution, with the power and control of the streamers and their algorithms casting an ever growing shadow on independent cinema. Like many filmmakers my main motivation for creating films is so they can one day be screened in a cinema… an experience shared with an audience of strangers in a big dark room. It’s tragic to see that unique experience on hold and, possibly for some cinemas, gone forever. So what could I do about it?  Maybe the only thing I can re

  Plot: A group of six friends spend spring break at a smart home and end up being trapped by the house's AI System. Our lives are dependent on technology. It is making our lives easier after all. And entertaining too sometimes. So it doesn’t matter what we have to give up in order for that little slice of convenience. And most of the time it is your privacy that is the first one to be given up. Margaux is one of those movies that is supposed to rethink your stance on your dependence on technology. Instead, it completely misses the mark and ends up being ludicrous.

  This week’s Horror Book Recommendation is Starling House written by Alix E. Harrow. Published by Tor in October 2023, the book is in the bestseller’s list of Fairy Tale Fantasy and Dark Fantasy. 

  The use of CGI has become a norm in movies nowadays. Why bother seeking out permissions to shoot on actual locations when you can create your own world using green screens and CGI?

  Plot: Dr Elizabeth Derby has the ideal life until one day a patient disrupts everything.  It is always fun to see a classic story being adapted for screen. Not everyone may have access to the classics that have entertained young minds for years, or the books may be difficult to find. And so, adaptations are the best option to carry forward the stories for years to come.  But not all adaptations are well made and most of them are so far from the book it begs the question: just why even call it an adaptation.  SUITABLE FLESH is an adaptation of THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP written by H.P. LOVECRAFT. The horror short story, that was published in 1937, is supposed to be a part of the Cthulhu Mythos. Suitable Flesh follows the storyline but reverses the genders of the characters which means that Edward Derby does exist in the movie but he is the husband to protagonist Elizabeth Derby. Daniel Upton is Daniella Upton.  Asenath Waite is Asa Waite, a young man who believes his father, Ephraim

  Plot: A woman brings home a decoration during Diwali and ends up being haunted by a personal tragedy. It's the festival of lights and it is that time of the year when we celebrate the victory of light over dark.

  Plot: Two friends climb a 2000-foot radio tower only to find themselves stranded there. You know that feeling you get when you go up and then suddenly down a hill? That weird sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach that almost feels ticklish too? If you want to experience that feeling without sitting on a ride, watch the FALL. You will never want to go climbing again.

This week’s Horror Book Recommendation is OUR MOTHER IN THE LAKE by Abe Ross.  Published by Grim Heart Publishing, the book was released in June 2023 and currently listed on the bestsellers list for Ghost Suspense and Horror Suspense. 

  You may just want to cover up some portraits after watching the latest horror movie trailer of THE PORTRAIT.  The movie that stars Ryan Kwanten, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Virginia Madsen, is about a woman dealing with a husband who after being in an accident, is no longer the person he used to be.  The wife, Sofia, comes across a portrait in her new home and is shocked to find that the man in the painting closely resembles her husband. 

  PLOT: When Ella travels with her kids to her hometown to attend her sister's wedding, she soon finds herself fighting off vicious old people. More often than not, we get to hear and read news articles about how the elderly are miserably treated. How they are abandoned. How they wait in old age homes for their family to come for a visit, only to be disappointed. They are weak and pretty much counting the days until they die. That's the fundamental belief anyway.

  This week’s Horror Book Recommendation is DARKNESS STIRRING written by J.R. Erickson.  The book was published in July 2021 and sits on the bestsellers list for Horror Fiction Classics and Ghost Thrillers. 

  You might want to be careful about the next glass of soy milk you drink.  In the movie AS WE KNOW IT, a soy milk recall causes the zombie apocalypse that has everyone running for their lives. 

  Plot: After a patient commits suicide in front of her, Dr. Rose believes the curse has been passed on to her. Smile. Even if you don't feel like it. Even when you are in pain or have faced a traumatic event. You have to show you are strong. How many of us are forced to wear smiles because of this? That false smile that is part of a mask for what we truly want to express. Sooner or later, that smile becomes something we despise. It isn't natural. That smile is something we are forced to wear.