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Well, here we are, folks. It’s the end of season one of The Following. Things aren’t looking so good for Hardy and especially Agent Parker and Claire. And with Carroll severely wounded, this is anyone’s game. Let’s see how it will play out, shall we? “The Final Chapter” opens with Hardy and the FBI review footage from the attack on the center, they ID one of the followers, Alex, and also make the connection that Carroll has brought to life some of Poe’s better known […]
April 29th, 2013 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Images | Read More »
After he lost Claire, Hardy fell back off the wagon. Carroll gives Ryan a wake up call and calls him out on drinking again. Hardy hangs up on him, but Carroll calls back and brings up their famous book again. He’s calling him to rub his renewed family in Hardy’s face, effectively hurting Hardy. At the same time, Roderick pulls up with a hooded Claire. Agitated, she only wants to see Joey. Jacob leads her to her room and locks her in, promising her that […]
April 1st, 2013 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Images | Read More »
We were left with the image of someone in a Poe mask setting a civilian on fire. In episode three, “The Poet’s Fire”, we pick up with the person in the Poe mask delivering a street performance that has attracted quite a crowd. As our curiosity grows concerning who is really behind the mask, the person methodically walks across the street and sets the person on fire. Hardy (Kevin Bacon) is with Special Agent Parker, trying to figure out where Joey is. The suspects, Emma, […]
February 4th, 2013 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Images | Read More »
Episode two of The Following, titled, “Chapter 2”, was aptly named. As we continue serial killer Joe Carroll’s (James Purefoy) ambitions of writing a sequel novel featuring Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) as his flawed hero, we see the monstrous machine that is Carroll’s plan as its gears begin to turn. When we left off last episode, security guard Jordy had approached a young woman. Now he tells her he needs to check her windows and secure her house because Carroll is on the loose. She […]
January 28th, 2013 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Images | Read More »
Fox’s new series, “The Following”, debuted Monday, January 21. Labeled as a drama, it also incorporates elements of horror and suspense with a storyline revolving around a serial killer. This is not your run of the mill serial killer, though. Joe Carroll (played by James Purefoy) is quite prolific and just happens to be an ex college professor with the ability to use his astonishing speaking skills and good looks to lure his victims and, later while in prison, gain a massive following to carry […]
January 25th, 2013 | Filed under Dark TV,Headline,Horror | Read More »
Horror stories have been written for centuries. Many times they were based on folklore or handed down tales. Horror can be terrifying, suspenseful, shocking or gruesome. No matter the premise of the story, horror is designed to frighten, invoke fear and make the unimaginable a possibility; in other words to elicit an emotion. Along with the fear, horror can often be sad, pushing limits and boundaries with no intention of returning or giving us a happy ending. It is these stories that I will be […]
September 14th, 2012 | Filed under Books,Headline | Read More »
With The Raven movie, starring John Cusack, opening this weekend, we thought today might be an appropriate day to post Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem The Raven. This is from a Project Gutenberg archive of an illustrated 1883 edition. Gustave Doré was the illustrator. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber […]
April 28th, 2012 | Filed under Books,Fiction,Headline,Horror,Movies | Read More »
John Cusack stopped by Comic Con 2011 to answer some questions about The Raven and Edgar Allan Poe and his invention and influence in the realm of Gothic Horror. Cusack will be playing the role of Poe in this much anticipated upcoming film. In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack, Being John Malkovich) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal […]
July 25th, 2011 | Filed under Headline,Horror,Movies,Video | Read More »
