The Abominable Dr. Welsh

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The Fog is Murky Fun from John Carpenter

February 8, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

Thirty-nine years ago, on Feb. 8 1980, legendary horror film director, John Carpenter, released The Fog, his follow-up to Halloween (1978). A minor hit at the box-office (Box Office Mojo, n.d.), The Fog hasn’t received the same affection as other Carpenter films. Halloween is rightly held up as a classic of the horror genre. Over […]

Eloise: A Ghost Story That Never Fully ‘Commits’ To Its Setting

November 27, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Horror movies love to throw around the ‘based on a true story’ proclamation regardless of how much truth is present. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that there was in fact a psychiatric facility named Eloise that operated from the early 1800’s to the 1980’s. Aside from its setting and location, direct-to-video thriller Eloise […]