The killer bee subgenre of ecological horror films was kicked off in the 1970s with such films as Killer Bees and Savage Bees, but over in Great Britain, they got a jump on things with a film based on H.F. Heard’s 1941 novel “A Taste for Honey,” a story that took a Sherlockian approach to…
Tag: Agatha Christie
The Hateful Eight (2015) – Review
“It was Tarantino, in the cabin, with the revolver.” In what is basically a western whodunit Quentin Tarantino collects a group of rather unpleasant characters, plops them in an Agatha Christie And Then There Were None plot line, adds expletives and gore, then stirs occasionally.
The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote only four westerns and The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County was the last of them. It was published in the pages of Thrilling Adventures magazine and illustrated by his son John Coleman Burroughs. What makes this book stand out from many other westerns is that not only was it a good…