What would you do to get a second chance at life? Questions concerning mortality and morality have been fodder for countless science fiction books and movies. This movie itself is a remake of the 1966 John Frankenheimer film Seconds, which in turn was based on the book by David Ely, but today’s outing would rather…
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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…
Ouija (2014) – Review
When I was about seven years old, my parents went off to a funeral while my sisters and I stayed home, as it wasn’t relatives we kids knew all that well who had died. My sisters thought it would be fun to pull out our Ouija board and contact the dearly departed, and minutes after…
A Review of Two Tales – Horns
Horns, both the novel by Joe Hill and the movie based on that same novel, follow the story of Ignatius Perrish in the aftermath of the murder of his longtime girlfriend Merrin Williams.
Child of Glass (1978) – Review
Not all ghosts are hell-bent on dragging poor mortals to their deaths, some just want to find peace after roaming the spectral plain for ages, and it is this is the kind of ghost that we find in Disney’s Child of Glass, a made-for-television movie based on the book “The Ghost Belonged to Me” by…