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In what turned out to be both a haunting and beautiful episode, American Horror Story: Asylum Episode 7, “Dark Cousin”, brought with it many deaths, but the sadness was balanced with elegance, along with a dose of quiet and a good measure of composure. Grace is back in Briarcliff, but her botched hysterectomy has her clinging to life by a thread. When she is bleeding out, she sees a woman dressed in black approach her bed. The woman is beautiful with pale skin that stands […]
November 28th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Images | Read More »
Walking Dead this week featured a father and son having The Talk, more uncomfortable nudity than you ever want to see again, zombie cognition experiments, and Glen on hardcore mode. As the show sets things up for the “mid-season finale,” all of the ambivalence is swept aside. Characters that previously had muddy motivations and questionable intentions are revealed as pure evil or heroic champions. Merle starts right off with a racist tirade about T-Dog, then tortures and beats Glen. To wrap things up, he unleashes […]
November 25th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline | Read More »
Nancy A. Collins is the distinguished author of the well-known horror and urban fantasy vampire series featuring the main character, Sonja Blue. She hasn’t written a new Sonja Blue tale in over ten years, and her fans have hoped to remedy this situation. Ms. Collins intends to do just that by writing the novel, “Kill City“, the next novel in the Sonja Blue series. She attempted to pitch her idea to two major publishers, but they didn’t agree with her choice to make her novel […]
November 22nd, 2012 | Filed under Books,Headline,Video | Read More »
Episode six, “The Origins of Monstrosity”, started off back in the present day. Cops have been called to Briarcliff and we see a grisly scene with bodies dangling in the air, all wearing a Bloody Face mask. Along with a few intense moments, AHS offered up more backstory for some of the key players and allowed us to meet a charming little pigtail adorned, psychopathic girl, Jessie. In 1962, Briarcliff was preparing to close its doors as a tuberculosis hospital. Monsignor listened as Dr. Arden […]
November 21st, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Images | Read More »
This week’s Walking Dead was all about…well, I don’t know what it was all about. Some people died. There was serious gore. Plot lines were entangled. We found out who called Rick on the phone. Merle was Merle and Michonne was Michonne. Let’s start with the situation back at the prison. Rick talks to the the mystery girl on the phone and finds out they live in a dreamy safe place. He wants to go to there. She says she’ll call him, maybe. Later, Hershel […]
November 18th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline | Read More »
Oh, American Horror Story. Just when I think I have a particular story line figured out, you pull the rug out from under my feet. Another favorite trick of yours is to plant the seed of an idea and leaving me hanging, wondering about the next episode. It’s genius, really. This weeks episode, “I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 2”, is a continuation from last weeks part one. It starts out with Sister Jude taking her exploration into Dr. Arden’s possible evil past a little further. […]
November 14th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline | Read More »
Some say that the luck a gambler can get (or fail to get) from a dead man’s hand comes from a play on words, based on the hand of glory. The dead man’s hand is supposed to be the hand of cards held by Wild Bill Hickok in his final poker game. It is generally agreed that he had a pair of aces and a pair of eights, but historians and other spooky people debate what the hole card actually was. The Adams Museum in […]
November 14th, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Professional | Read More »
It’s Walking Dead time, where the humans are crazier than the undead. I’m talking specifically about Daryl’s poncho, but there may be other examples. The Woodbury storyline got pushed and prodded pretty thoroughly this week. We see that there’s some kind of Founders’ Day celebration going on – the Gov has even insisted the generators run to power the freezers so everyone can have cold drinks. Milton the egghead makes the mysterious “festivities” planned for that night seem very ominous when he tells Andrea it’s […]
November 11th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline | Read More »
Face Off finalist and self-confessed sci-fi geek Laura Tyler talks about D&D, Buffy, and the east coast/west coast FX scenes in this exclusive interview. Ed Grabianowski for Gothic.net: You’ve mentioned the difference between east coast make up artists, who work in haunted houses and have tight deadlines, and west coast artists who work on film sets with longer schedules. How do you think that affects methods and design choices? Does the haunted house scene give east coast artists a more horror-based design aesthetic? Laura Tyler: […]
November 8th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline | Read More »
Episode four of American Horror Story: Asylum delved a little into the mysteries behind some of the intriguing characters on the show, leaving viewers with more questions and piquing our interests about conspiracies and possibilities. And even though it is set in 1964, some of the themes the show hits on are still relevant today. In the opening, Sister Jude is being summoned to check out a new patient that arrived with no forms of identification. The woman is Jewish and has been put in […]
November 7th, 2012 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline | Read More »
