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Review by Ryan Fleming. There's no doubt. The title tells you what the book's about. Picture courtesy Amazon. Amongst the many...
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- Feb 9
- 14 min
An Alternate History of Horror XXI: Jump Scare
By Ryan Fleming. Nosferatu, 1922. One of the earliest classics of the genre. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. It seems appropriate for...
- Feb 2
- 9 min
Tales from Development Hell: I Am Legend
By Ryan Fleming Will Smith (left) in I Am Legend. Picture courtesy Wired. I’m afraid I have some sad news. This is the last article in...
- Jan 26
- 13 min
An Alternate History of Horror XX: Blood, Brains, and Broadband.
By Ryan Fleming. Villa Diodati, the birthplace of both Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As...
- Jan 12
- 10 min
Tales From Development Hell: The Hook
By Ryan Fleming. A publicity poster for On The Waterfront. It could equally have been used for The Hook. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
- Jan 5
- 14 min
An Alternate History of Horror XIX: Inspired By Actual Events
By Ryan Fleming. Going viral - The Blair Witch Project. It could only have been made in the early Internet period. Picture courtesy...
- Dec 29, 2023
- 12 min
The Van Helsing Mysteries: Season 2
By Ryan Fleming Cross. Holy Water. Garlic. Stakes. Cheese Sandwiches. Just another day at the office for Van Helsing. Picture courtesy...
- Dec 22, 2023
- 9 min
Tales from Development Hell: The Dark Tower
By Ryan Fleming Idris Elba looking out of place. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As film development drags into the dreaded...
- Dec 15, 2023
- 12 min
An Alternate History of Horror XVIII: Onryō
By Ryan Fleming. Onryō; Japan's spirits of vengeance. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is, I am given to understand, the...
- Dec 1, 2023
- 12 min
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...
- Nov 24, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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...
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