20 October 2012
Cast: Hanna Stanbridge, James Nesbitt, Karen Gillan, Katie Dickie, Niall Bruton
Script: Colm McCarthy, Tom K. McCarthy
Genre: horror, sff
Setting: 2010s, Scotland
6 Stars
3 Comments
Part of my RIP Peril Onscreen Fergal and his mother are on the run. They arrive in a rundown block of flats, clearly hiding out. Mary wants to keep her son safe, but he is a teenager, and trying to … Continue reading
12 September 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: sff, short stories
9 Stars
2 Comments
This is a story in a story, in a book of stories. Welcome to meta-ness :) The story opens with the 12 months meeting up. And October is this meeting’s chair, hence the title. The months talk a little among … Continue reading
10 September 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: 1940s, America, contemporary, Wales
9 Stars
8 Comments
Read for this year’s RIP challenge. This was just the perfect start to my reading for R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril VI, it is perfectly creepy and atmospheric, plus has that side order of whimsy and surrealness I think fits this challenge … Continue reading
Stephen has returned home to take up from his stepfather as pastor. He has also returned in time to sit at his dying mother’s bed side. He knows she is dying and is writing her eulogy, but at the same time remembering his past, as well as the stories and legends that grew up surrounding his grandfather Jeannot.
Zentner’s debut novel is a slow, atmospheric retelling of those childhood memories interspresed with Stephen’s musings on his current situation and relationships with his family members.
4 February 2011
Genre: horror
Setting: C20th, England
8 Stars
6 Comments
ISBN: 9780099511649 It was nine-thirty on Christmas eve. Arthur Kipps is a mature and responsible individual. His first wife & child died many years ago, but he has since found happiness with his second wife and her children, although they … Continue reading
14 October 2010
Genre: horror
Setting: England
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by Susan Hill
Coming home one evening from meeting with a client, rare books dealer Adam Snow takes a wrong turn and ends up outside a derelict Edwardian house. For some strange reason he is drawn to this building and its wilderness of gardens and finds himself wandering through the overgrown weeds. And, standing all alone, he feels the strangest of sensations. A small hand, in his. As though he were a father taking hold of a son’s hand. But he is not a father. And there is no child.
13 October 2010
Genre: horror
Setting: 1960s, USA - Illinois
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It is the last day of school at “Old Central”, the building is being decommissioned and after the summer holidays the children will be going to a new school. Tubby Coakes isn’t about to hang around for the final bell. He has his bathroom pass and isn’t about to go back to class. Unfortunately for Tubby his explorations are going to get him killed. And for many of his classmates the end of Old Central is the start of a summer of horror and death.
12 October 2010
Cast: Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt
Script: M. Night Shyamalan
Genre: drama
7 Comments
For this year’s RIP challenge Carl has suggested that as well as reading horror-ific books we might also watch some suitable films and to get the ball rolling on my RIP films I decided to rewatch M. Night Shymalan’s The Village.
I quite enjoyed it the first time around. I don’t seem to recall having been all that surprised by any of the so-called twists or reveals, but it was an enjoyable film.
22 February 2010
Genre: detective & mystery, historical fiction
Setting: 1920s, C20th, England
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Author: Mary Russell
If you’ve read my reviews of the other books in this series you’ll already know that I really love them. If you haven’t here’s a quick recap; Sherlock Holmes, a real historical figure retired to Sussex in order to tend to his bees. While there he met Mary Russell; a somewhat moody, if quite brilliant, teenager and took her under his wing. She became his apprentice and later his wife. Errr, spoiler alert! In this, the fourth in the series, Sherlock sends Russell a telegram summoning her to Dartmoor and the moor that was the setting for The Hound of the Baskervilles. There are reports of another ghostly beast roaming the countryside and an old friend of Holmes would like him to investigate. Especially when a man is found dead on the moor.
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15 February 2010
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Art Malik, Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving
Script: Andrew Kevin Walker, Curt Siodmak, David Self
Genre: horror
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I really did want to enjoy this film. It is a werewolf film after all, and I am a fan, plus Benicio Del Toro has something about him that I usually enjoy. Unfortunately there is very little by way of storyline in this film. And even less of characters. I mean, why make a film about a character no one cares about? When your central character leaves me meh-d out, well, your film really isn’t going to grab my attention now is it? Continue reading