The Van Helsing Mysteries. Season 1.
By Ryan Fleming. It's that man again. We'll see a lot of him. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In which Ryan Fleming imagines a 1970s...
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- Nov 24
- 9 min
Tales from Development Hell: The Alien
By Ryan Fleming. No. Not this alien. Not quite. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Too often in the West, success or impact in film is...
- Nov 22
- 5 min
Marooned on Lavender Island.
Marooned guest: Ryan Fleming Tradition. Plus it saves searching out a new picture each time. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Once...
- Nov 17
- 14 min
An Alternate History of Horror XVII: Press Any Button
By Ryan Fleming. Zombie Hunters in New Orleans. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The feeling of fear in horror fiction is usually felt...
- Oct 27
- 9 min
Tales from Development Hell: Dinosaur
By Ryan Fleming Everyone loves a Styracosaurus. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In any industry, advances in technology can alter the...
- Oct 13
- 14 min
An Alternate History of Horror XVI: Behind the Sofa
By Ryan Fleming This is not a good sofa to hide behind. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Since age restrictions were introduced to...
- Sep 29
- 9 min
Tales from Development Hell: At the Mountains of Madness.
By Ryan Fleming HP Lovecraft. Unfilmable? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Unfilmable is mostly spoken about as a certitude, that...
- Sep 22
- 13 min
An Alternate History of Horror XV: Teenage Wasteland.
By Ryan Fleming. The grandmother of slasher films. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. An oversaturated marketplace caused by innumerable...
- Aug 18
- 10 min
Tales from Development Hell: The Bodyguard
By Ryan Fleming Inevitably, it was also made into a Musical. Bodyguards don't normally burst into song. Trust me on that. Picture...
- Aug 11
- 14 min
An Alternate History of Horror XIV: Paperbacks from Hell
By Ryan Fleming. Frankenstein at work in his laboratory. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Modern horror fiction was born in novels....
- Jul 28
- 14 min
Alternate History of Horror. Part XIII: Bad Karma
By Ryan Fleming Sales of chainsaws rose after the film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As the 1960s became the 1970s, US horror...
- Jun 3
- 5 min
Monthly Vignette: Valiant.
By Ryan Fleming Sammy is preparing for a big event, due on June 6th. Set your calendars. On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly...
- Jun 2
- 14 min
An Alternate History of Horror. Part XII: Modern Times
By Ryan Fleming. The horror. The Omen (1976). Picture Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. By the time Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde ushered in...
- May 26
- 9 min
Tales from Development Hell: Akira
By Ryan Fleming. Katsuhiro Otomo riding Kaneda's motorcycle. That must be fun. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Remakes are everywhere...
- May 19
- 16 min
An Alternate History of Horror: Part XI. The Idiot Box
By Ryan Fleming. They are, in fact, early televisions. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. After experiments throughout the 1920s and...
- Apr 21
- 12 min
An Alternate History of Horror: Kensington Gore, Part 2.
By Ryan Fleming. (for Part 1 of this article, see here). It lives!!!! Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Between 1957 and 1974, Hammer...
- Apr 14
- 11 min
An Alternate History of Horror X: Kensington Gore, Part 1
By Ryan Fleming Three of the greats: Lugosi, Lee, Pallance. The Vampire Strikes Back. Image from Wikimedia. In writing about the history,...
- Mar 30
- 9 min
Tales from Development Hell: A Confederacy of Dunces
By Ryan Fleming Can a work of fiction be cursed? If people, places or things can be cursed then why not a work of fiction too? Such...
- Mar 22
- 14 min
An Alternate History of Horror IX: Seduction of the Innocent
By Ryan Fleming In the present day and for most of their history, comic books have been synonymous with the superhero genre. The genre...
- Mar 17
- 8 min
Tales from Development Hell: Superman Lives
By Ryan Fleming In popular culture there are some works that have managed to become famous despite never happening at all. Projects can...
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