Category: horror
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Review: Twilight: Breaking Dawn: Part 2 (SPOILERS)
Who the fuck is this? Major spoilers ahead. Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the year’s bravest piece of storytelling. More than any other movie, it throws out all storytelling conventions completely. Tired tropes like “characters making rational decisions,” “conflict,” and “an ending” are eschewed in favor of its own brand of vampires-having-conversations entertainment. When…
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Disguises
I love Halloween. It pushes people to leave their comfort zones by trying out a new identity for a while. Since Halloween costumes disguise people’s identies, I had the hilarious thought that they could be called by what they are: But then today I went shopping for my disguise, and discovered that I was…
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Book Review: Bloodsucking Fiends, by Christopher Moore
Oh look, I’m reviewing yet another vampire novel. Whatever. Just be happy I haven’t resorted to Twilight yet. Bloodsucking Fiends tells the story of a newly formed vampire who, in order to function in modern society, recruits a human to do stuff for her during the day. Inevitably and for no good reason, they fall…
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