Final Women

Dead Snow Dead Snow is a fun, silly film concerning a group of college students holidaying in a remote cabin. They unearth a box of treasures, which they soon discover is linked to a local legend involving undead Nazis. The surprisingly tough youth proceed to take on hoards of angry Nazi zombies, and it's this unexpected badassery of our main characters that gives this movie its best scenes. I haven't watched the sequel yet, but I've heard it's bigger and better in every way. As this first film's set the bar pretty high, I could only imagine what joys #2 will bring. Unnatural A genetically modified polar bear escapes its Alaskan lab and heads for a small, isolated tourist lodge in southern Alaska. It proceeds to massacre year round residents and obnoxious guests alike. The acting in this one is better than expected, particularly from veterans James Remar and Twin Peak's Sherilyn Fenn. Ray Wise also has a small role, although it's little more ...

Horror poetry. It's an aspect of the genre that does not get enough attention, and I admit to being largely ignorant of it myself. Sure, everyone knows Poe. He is at least as famous for his poetry as for his prose; "The Raven" is perhaps his most popular work, and I studied "Annabel Lee" at least twice in school. Lovecraft also wrote poetry, although not nearly (in my opinion) as well as Poe. Still, I'm ashamed to admit that I've been pretty oblivious to modern horror poetry, but then The Apocalyptic Mannequin by Stephanie M. Wytovich came along and changed all that. This collection has made me thirst for more, not just by this author, who has several more collections, but for horror poetry itself. Wytovich hooked me from the first lines or her opening poem, In the event of cigarettes lit by nuclear explosions, I will stand naked in my burning... Those two lines capture the raw beauty of all the poems to follow. These poems don't shy aw...