New Horror

Horror directors and producers save up their best shit to release around this time of year, and two incredible documentaries just dropped. Documentaries about horror are like, the film version of my work and a whole window into my brain and I love them very much. I’ve...

Identity Theft

Every day is Halloween for me here on the death/horror/ghost AND SOCIETY beat, but Fall is obviously like, go time. I’m booked and busy (see us in the Mission and Oakland in October!!) but I’m also designing little themed movie watches for myself. Just like a girl who...

Haunted Travelogue – Steamboat Springs

It’s summer which means it’s time for a haunted travelogue! I took a MUCH NEEDED break in Steamboat Springs with HLAS Producer Carolyn this week and I came back with some fun shit for you guys. First of all, Steamboat is slept on. It’s gorgeous there! A cute little...

Texas Ghosts

For the past couple of weeks I have been chasing a research lead in TEXAS, of all places. This is the fun part about doing historical research – you start in one place with a bunch of assumptions and then 2 weeks later you’re deep in the weeds of the TEXAS...

Body Snatching in America

Remember Invasion of the Body Snatchers, with Donald Sutherland? Where people are slowly, insidiously, turned into aliens, and there’s almost no way to tell who the enemy is? It was made in 1978, but it’s actually a remake of a 1956 movie. In the 1950’s version, the...