Tag: Stephen King

• 31 Days of Wicked Watching [DAY 19]: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

  

  Today’s blog post is going to be short and sweet because this film, although seeing it a few times, isn’t one that I’ve ever had sit with me long enough to feel it. Sam Raimi’s work is certainly brutal and dark and bloody, but this franchise of films never claimed my attention as one I […]

  Patrick R. Johnson

  October 19, 2020

  31 Days of Horror, 80s Horror, Supernatural

  Blood, Cabin, Evil Dead, Franchise, Lee Cronin, Sam Raimi, Sequel, Stephen King

• 31 Days of Wicked Watching [DAY 18]: It’s Like Piggy had the Boulder Dropped on Him Again

  

  As a former English teacher, I tend to mentally go back to the books I taught and the literature I’ve loved for most of my life–thus why teaching English worked for me. One of those books, which happens to be one of my favorite books of all time, is “Lord of the Flies.” There is […]

  Patrick R. Johnson

  October 18, 2020

  31 Days of Horror, 80s Horror, Slashers, Supernatural

  Children of the Corn, Civility, Cults, Cultural Fears, Folk Story, Fritz Kiersch, George Orwell, Linda Hamilton, Lord of the Flies, Peter Horton, Religion, Religious Bigotry, Savagery, Stephen King, Supernatural, William Golding, World War II

• 31 Days of Wicked Watching [DAY 7]: When All Else Fails, Get Lost

  

  If I had to pick a horror film that may be more celebrated for its visuals than Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” then there would be no other film above it on that list than Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece in isolationism: “The Shining.” The story comes from the horror great Stephen King, but the visuals are very much […]

  Patrick R. Johnson

  October 7, 2020

  31 Days of Horror, 80s Horror, Supernatural

  Alfred Hitchcock, Ghost Stories, Gothic, Jack Nicholson, Murder, Redrum, Romanticism, Shelley Duvall, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, The Shining