The Unheard begins with noise, and then silence. The noise is both auditory and visual in nature, as an old family video plays with its staticky images jumping and skipping and the audio track loudly distorting. A mother and child can be seen, both inside and outdoors, and a voice can be heard calling ‘Mommy’…
Sometimes, to understand the great American horror story, you need to go back to the source. Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door begins with a quote from Edgar Allen Poe (which supplies the origin of the film’s title), and with that most familiar of the genre’s formative primal scenes: a little boy in bed, frightened…
Mysterious Skin first published by Movie Gazette Hutchinson, Kansas. In the summer of 1981, eight-year old Brian (George Webster) is sitting in the rain at a Little League game. Fives hours later he wakes at home, with no idea how he got there – and from then on his life is plagued with nosebleeds, bedwetting,…
The Henry Fool Trilogy first published by Little White Lies “My life’s work. My memoirs. My confession… It’s a philosophy, a poetics, a politics, if you will. A literature of protest. A novel of ideas. A pornographic magazine of truly comicbook proportions. It is in the end whatever the hell I want it to be and…