Flawed Diamonds

My much- and often-revised story "God of Chickens" will appear in the official magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Associati...

It's Armistice Day, or Veterans' Day, depending on your personal point of view. Some people have the day off, and there's proba...

For two running nights, I've dreamed of playing Fallout: New Vegas . Yay. If I was the sort to believe in personification, I'd be ...

The Kingdom is my go-to snobby horror. It’s a Danish miniseries, directed by Lars von Trier. At four and a half hours, it takes is slow, c...

The Dr. Who spinoff Torchwood has tried to straddle the line between action and horror, and to my mind, succeeded in being neither. That s...

I love the Fallout games. They have some of the best stories being told in computer games today. The retro-future background combined with...

In many monster films, the driving source of tension is created by allowing the audience to glimpse the monster, never truly seeing it. Thi...

In Fritz Lang's M , Peter Lorre plays Hans Beckert, the screen's first serial killer. Beckert preys exclusively on children, a crim...

Structure is not an aspect of film that is often praised. Yet in a suspense, mystery or horror film, it's vital. Not just that the sto...

Anyone can take a bucket of blood and splash it on celluloid. While I enjoy the occasional gore flick, the red stuff is often at the expens...