Sunset Gun

I’m never sure why people visit this site. For the bad jokes? Snarky reviews of movies no sane person would watch? Google misdirection? One service I can provide, however, is to inform you of better sites, where you can go to better yourself while I work on the definitive ranking of giant snake movies.

One site that I read and highly recommend is Sunset Gun, Kim Morgan’s site. Ms. Morgan loves noir movies and muscle cars, which already edges her dangerously close to perfection, but the real treat of her site is her essays, largely devoted to movie-making. She looks at things with a keen intellect, and prompts you to think about things. Even on those rare occasions when I don’t agree with her point-of-view, she forces me to examine my own opinions, which is always a good thing.

So check out Sunset Gun, for all the things you won’t find here.

New Hope for Public Schools

If you have children, want children, or sacrifice children to the Elder Gods, you’ll get a kick out of this article entitled “Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum”. I think I’ve finally found a politician I can fully support.
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Don D'Ammassa on The Current State of Horror Fiction

Anyone who is interested in the field of Horror Fiction should read what Don D’Ammassa has to say. He has taken the time to write a thorough summation of where things stand. Props to anyone who believes Stephen King is still writing good novels, as I do.

The Horror Of It All

Although they were dying as the result of censorship by the time I came into the world, I’ve always had a soft spot for the old horror comics, which flourished in the 1950s. Often cheesy, they reveled in surprising graphic (which is what did them in) stories of revenge, monsters and comeuppance. The best known were EC Comic’s titles such as Tales from the Crypt, but there were many others. In the wake of public attacks on their lurid violence and supposed immorality (although the vast majority were morality tales, with greed and lust leading to horrible fates), they were supplanted almost completely by superheroes in the comics of the 1950s.

If you wish to check out these four-color nasties for yourself, an excellent blog titled The Horror Of It All is posting a story a day from the golden age of horror comics. Give it a look, I think you’ll be delighted. Thanks to Mark Justice for clueing me in on this site.

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