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Weekly Movie Recommendation–Always short so you can get right to the movie. Title: Terrifier (2022) Summary: On Halloween, infamous Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) stalks and terrorizes a brother and sister and anyone close to them What I Liked: As a fan of All Hallows Eve and Terrifier, I greatly looked forward to Terrifier…
Weekly Movie Recommendation–Always short so you can get right to the movie. Title: The Hoarder (2015) Summary: A woman attempts to search through her fiance’s storage unit and uncovers something shocking. What I Liked: The Hoarder started off slow, but really picked up toward the middle. The ending was intense and unsettling. The movie has…
I’ve been writing all my life, and publishing for more than twenty years, but I’m still learning how to write believable villains. It’s all too easy to go off the deep end, to make them so loathsome that they’re boring. Pure evil is just too predictable to be interesting. When my crit partner Chris read…
Weekly Movie Recommendation–Always short so you can get right to the movie. Title: VFW (2019) Summary: Tough older veterans and a younger soldier protect a gutsy young woman from drug pushers. What I Liked: I loved the cast of mostly older characters who kicked butt. VFW has action, some gore, and best of all characters…
Political Thriller Date Published: June 17, 2022 Publisher: Mindstir Media “Over my dead body would I ever leave him and return to the agency.” Norma remembers those words that now prove to be untrue as she rejoins Atropos-a covert government organization-after so many bloodless years. She has just carried out her first mission…
Techno Thriller Date Published: 02-10-2023 Publisher: Open Books Three people doing their jobs and making decisions that may lead to a conflict between the world’s powers. After all, the US must respond to an attack on its flagship project to build home-grown ‘fabs’, especially as it is linked to the reputation of…
Weekly Movie Recommendation–Always short so you can get right to the movie. Title: Old Man (2022) Summary: An old man living alone in a cabin is disturbed by a lost hiker. What I Liked: The characters. Both the old man (Stephen Lang) and the young man, Joe (Marc Senter), are believable in their roles. The…
Weekly Movie Recommendation–Always short so you can get right to the movie. Title: The Black Phone (2021) Summary: A boy who has been abducted by a serial killer gets help from deceased victims. What I Liked: Finney and his sister Gwen are sympathetic characters and I cared about what happened to them and Finney’s friend…
Thrillers & Suspense Date Published: Sept 9, 2021 As the son of a crofter family young Berend Bouters natural talent finds him in the prestigious Art Academy of Amsterdam. It is early 1900. Everything points to a successful career as an artist, he works along Mondrian, becomes part of the Barbizon movement, until life…
Weekly Movie Recommendation–Always short so you can get right to the movie. This month, I’ll be recommending holiday horror movies. Title: Stalled (2013) Summary: During a Christmas party, a janitor gets trapped in a woman’s restroom while zombies take over the building. What I Liked: I originally watched Stalled because I had to know how…
Horror Date Published: 11-09-2022 Publisher: Severed Press Genetic scientists have created a species of virtually indestructible living weapons, codenamed the Olympians. But they made one mistake: Never create what you can’t destroy. After surviving his battle against prehistoric scorpions, mercenary Dave Brank sought seclusion—a chance to heal in the arms of his equally traumatized…
Thriller / Supernatural / Romance Date Published: 09-01-2017 Moving into a suburban, middle class, stereotypical neighborhood was never on Julian’s to do list. When his identical twin brother inherits their Aunt’s house in such a place, then finds a good job, Julian reluctantly follows. He expected to feel isolated by being the only…