In addition to being a genre legend, Texas Frightmare Weekend guest Robert Englund is a man of irrepressible energy and took time out from his schedule to sit down with us to talk about coming back to Dallas, rednecks and just what exactly he tweets about. TerrorScribe: Are you excited to be coming to Texas [...]

In a perfect world, there is no crime, no disease. In a perfect world, we are at peace at the personal level, the global level and every level in between. In a perfect world, no good deed goes unrewarded, nice guys finish first and true love conquers all. In a perfect world, John Carpenter never [...]

To paraphrase something a wise woman once said, an assumption is a crap filled Twinkie: it looks great until you take a bite out of it. An assumption is a little bit of mental laziness that circumvents the heavy lifting of critical thinking and just going with whatever’s easiest. Of course, this brings us to [...]

I’m an old-school table-top gamer. I’ve been an elf. I’ve been a wizard. I’ve fired Magic Missiles and yes, I’ve even attacked the darkness. So, with this slight predisposition to the fantasy genre, I always keep a curious eye peeked when a new sword and sorcery film comes out. Granted, I think the genre peaked [...]

The problem, I think, with most horror movies these days is that they’ve forgotten how to scare us. The relationship of today’s horror film to the audience is very much like that of an old married couple who’ve fallen into a rut. They both go through the motions of the relationship as they have over [...]

There are few things in life more capable of scaring me senseless than humans. We are an unpredictable creature from the day we breathe our first breath. Much like beautifully wrapped packages on Christmas morning, you may only guess what’s inside. Ultimately, there arrives a revealing moment when the contents, beautiful or hideous, are presented [...]

They say you never forget your first love. Under other circumstances, I would probably tell you it was the red-haired girl I used to sit next to on the bus during my freshman year in high school. This time, however, and certainly more fitting, I will admit to you my first love was science fiction. [...]

For a couple of years in college, I was a music major. I generally liked it except for Tuesdays and Thursdays when, invariably, I’d have a 7:30AM class. My freshman year it was Music Appreciation. Music History took its place my sophomore year. These weren’t bad classes but they were pretty early in the morning [...]

If you ask either of my ex-wives, there are a great many things that I don’t know anything about. However, I do know something about cheerleaders. Now before you start with the knowing winks or high-fives, let me clarify: my older sister was a cheerleader. That made me the dorky little brother that got dragged [...]

How does one kill a Lovecraft monster? Option it to Universal Studios. Even after the much ballyhooed – at least in genre circles – of the melding of director Guillermo Del Toro, producer and current 3-D deity James Cameron, Tom Cruise and one of author H.P. Lovecraft’s best stories, Universal Studios has decided not to [...]