One Night. One House. One Dead Body.  This tagline is sure to intrigue you and check out this week’s horror book MIDNIGHT ON BEACON STREET.  If you like suspenseful thrillers, you will want to dive right into this novel written by Emily Ruth Verona. The plot is set in 1993 so many readers will find it enjoyable to get a slice of nostalgia in between the pages.  The book was published in January 2024 by Harper Perennial. Midnight on Beacon Street is on the bestsellers list in U.S. Horror Fiction, and Horror Suspense.  The reviews have been mostly positive with ma ..read more

  Do not go out after dark. Especially in the woods.  M.Night Shyamalan’s newest feature is here but this time he is only producing. Helming THE WATCHERS is his daughter Ishana Shyamalan.  The Watchers is based on the 2021 novel of the same name, and written by A.M. Shine.  The novel was about a young woman called Mina, whose car breaks down on her way to deliver a parrot. Since she is in the woods, a woman called Madeline, pulls her inside a cabin. Inside, she finds three more strangers, and is warned not to go out in the dark as there are creatures outside that could k ..read more

  M.Night Shyamalan has done it again. He has once again made a movie that will make you sit at the edge of your seat while the twist that usually reveals itself toward the end, unwinds. The movie was based on Paul Tremblay’s novel THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD and of course, the movie ending differs from the novel. The movie had some spectacular moments. Here are the top 10 moments from Knock at the Cabin. Spoilers ahead… 1) Dave Bautista may have started his career as a WWE superstar and then gone on to do several action movies, but his character in the movie will take you by ..read more

  Excerpt from ALL THAT IS LEFT  There was only darkness around her. Misha had never been afraid of the dark. As a child she had always insisted that a game of hide and seek be played with the lights out whereas the other girls her age would deem the game as too frightening, especially when played in an abandoned house. In all of her seventeen years, Misha had never been afraid of anything, but waking up in pitch black when she was supposed to be home and in the safety of her room, was starting to unnerve her. She swallowed and blinked, hoping she would get used to her surround ..read more

  This week's Horror Book Pick is The Ghost is Clear: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (A Series of Midlife Curses) by A.A. Tomes. Published in 2021, the novel has been positively received by reviewers and is on the bestsellers list of Ghost Fiction and Magical Realism. Since this book is the first in the series, readers have been eagerly awaiting the sequel and have found the protagonist’s journey fascinating. They liked the character's journey from being down in the dumps to when the character finds out more about herself. A few criticisms were about the book having missing w ..read more

  A24 releases the final instalment of the X trilogy. Titled MaXXXine, the movie will show us the events after the first movie and what Maxine has been up to after escaping the psychopaths Pearl and her husband Howard. After her stint in adult movies, Maxine now wants to move forward with her dreams of becoming a movie star. And so she is off to Hollywood. But as luck would have it, the Night Stalker serial killer may have set sights on her.  The Night Stalker was an actual criminal called Richard Ramirez who committed several crimes between June 1984 to August 1985. Since th ..read more

  The sixth installment in the SCREAM franchise was Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega's last movie in the franchise before the controversies.  Apart from that, here are the Top 10 Trivia from Scream VI:  1) Much like last year’s hit horror movie SMILE, SCREAM 6 has its main antagonist, GHOSTFACE, roaming about cities, and scaring people. When SMILE was about to release, the same marketing strategies were used wherein actors were placed around sporting events, wearing creepy smiles. The tactic sure worked for Smile. 2) This will be the first movie in the franchise without ..read more

  Plot: On a quest to find true love, Velma encounters only disappointment. Searching for true love has never been bloodier. In Velma, we see a woman putting herself out there, trying to find the one man who will love her for who she is. There are vibrant colors, bouffant hairstyles, lavish food spreads and olives in aspic. The characters wear chromatic colors and fashion from the 1960s. Scarlet Moreno gives a nuanced performance while playing the titular character Velma. Velma isn't seen speaking a single word. The background narration is what moves the story ahead. The story is ..read more

  This week’s Horror Book Pick is CHURCH BENEATH THE ROOTS by Felix Blackwell.  If you enjoyed STOLEN TONGUES by the same author, then you will be thrilled to learn that Church Beneath The Roots is a prequel.  Published in March 2024, the book has already received high praise for being a terrifying and gripping read. The book is already on the best sellers list for U.S. Horror Fiction and Horror Suspense.  A lot of fans of the author’s previous book, Stolen Tongues, were thrilled to get a prequel to the story and found it to be another nightmare-inducing tale.  ..read more

  Get ready to scream because the seventh installment in the Scream franchise is now moving ahead with Neve Campbell returning.  Initially, the Scream franchise had introduced new leads, Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega. But after Melissa Barrera was fired and Jenna Ortega departed the project,  director Christopher Landon exited as well.  That left the franchise in turmoil and many fans anxious as to the future of the franchise.  Fortunately, the production house quickly bounced back from all these setbacks by finally bringing back Sidney Prescott back into th ..read more