When Sam and Dean are not saving the world from an oncoming apocalypse or bickering over keeping secrets from each other, they occasionally get to have a mystery that is just pure fun, with no dire consequences looming in the wings. The episode titled ScoobyNatural is a great example of the showrunners knowing exactly what…
Tag: horror
Arcade (1993) – Review
“I never believed in Heaven, but I learned to believe in Hell when mom sent me there.” That is the first line of the 1993 sci-fi horror movie Arcade, as spoken by the lead protagonist, a teenage girl who had her life turned upside when her mother committed suicide and her father sank into a…
The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015-2017) Review
When Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley released her novel “Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus” back in the year 1818 I doubt even her fertile imagination could have guessed the journey her creation would take, and over the following two hundred years, it did take some marvelous turns.
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-2013) – Review
In 2010 Warner Bros Animation teamed up with the Cartoon Network to produce the eleventh, and possibly the best personification of Scooby-Doo and the gang, in a two-season series that basically works as a prequel to the original 1960s Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) – Review
When person embarks on making any kind of murder mystery one must ask such questions as, “What makes my thriller about a crazed killer stand out from others of its kind? Does the movie have a brilliant but eccentric detective? Is the hero/heroine a spunky and resourceful fighter?