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Book Review: Dead Man Walking by Marty Shaw

Book Review: Dead Man Walking by Marty Shaw

My Rating: ★★★★☆

Griffin knew watching an inmate being put to death wouldn’t be fun, but he never expected Callahan to return as something less than human. Now Griffin, along with a handful of officers and inmates, are trapped within the walls of a prison as a legion of the walking dead stalk them for food. The choice is simple – fight back or die.

Mothman (2010)

Mothman (2010)

My Rating: ★★☆☆☆

In this made for TV movie (SyFy Original), a group of friends band together to hide the truth about an accidental death of one of their friends one night while out partying on a lake. 10 years later aspiring journalist Katherine is asked to return to her hometown and cover the annual Mothman Festival. There she is reunited with her old friends, and soon enough the Mothman appears and begins killing her friends one by one…

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

My Rating: ★★☆☆☆

In a prequel to the events of the first two films, we find out that the demon terrorized Katie and Kristi not only as adults but as children too. Their “step-father” kept a video recording of all the events that took place in their “haunted” house, and it is presented here as a full length movie.

Book Review: Chain Letter 2 The Ancient Evil by Christopher Pike

Book Review: Chain Letter 2 The Ancient Evil by Christopher Pike

My Rating: ★★½☆☆

After receiving a chain letter, a group of teens decides it must be a joke–after all, the perpetrator of the original chain letter is dead and buried. But when Fran refuses to perform her “deed”, she is severely punished, and the group realizes that the power behind the letters is still alive.

Texas Killing Fields (2011)

Texas Killing Fields (2011)

My Rating: ★★☆☆☆

While trying to crack a murder in small-town Texas, local homicide detective Souder and his former New York City cop partner Heigh find themselves pulled into a case involving a serial killer who dumps his victims bodies in the “Texas Killing Fields”. Based on a true story.

Book Review: Incident On and Off a Mountain Road by Joe R. Lansdale

Book Review: Incident On and Off a Mountain Road by Joe R. Lansdale

My Rating: ★★★★☆

Chased through the woods at night by the maniacal Moon Face after a car accident, Ellen defends herself by rigging a series of booby traps she learned from her cruel survivalist husband. But her tricks may not be enough to stave off the creepy predator. This is a short story that was later adapted into an episode of Masters of Horror on Showtime in 2006.

Book Review: Chain Letter by Christopher Pike

Book Review: Chain Letter by Christopher Pike

My Rating: ★★★★☆

When Alison first read the chain letter signed “Your Caretaker,” she thought it was some terrible sick joke. Someone, somewhere knew about that awful night when she and six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert. And now that person was determined to make them pay for it. One by one, the chain letter was coming to each of them … demanding dangerous, impossible deeds… threatening violence if the demands were not met. No one out of the seven wanted to believe that this nightmare was really happening to them. Until the accidents started happening — and the dying…

Shark Night (2011) A.K.A. Shark Night 3D

Shark Night (2011) A.K.A. Shark Night 3D

My Rating: ★★☆☆☆

A weekend of island beach-house debauchery turns into a hellish nightmare for a group of friends when one of them loses an arm in a vicious shark attack. Worse, the pals soon discover that the waters are infested with dozens of the toothy predators.

Book Review: Grave’s End - A True Ghost Story by Elaine Mercado

Book Review: Grave’s End – A True Ghost Story by Elaine Mercado

My Rating: ★★★☆☆

When Elaine Mercado and her first husband bought their home in Brooklyn, New York, in 1982, they had no idea that they and their young daughters were embarking on a thirteen year nightmare. From weird sounds and smells to creepy laughter, balls of light and suffocating dreams, this book is the true story of how one family tried to cope with living in a haunted house.

Book Review: Urban Gothic by Brian Keene

Book Review: Urban Gothic by Brian Keene

My Rating: ★★★☆☆

When their car broke down in a dangerous neighborhood of the inner city, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter in the old dark row house. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until morning. They were wrong on all counts. The residents of the row house live in the cellar and rarely come out in the light of day. They’re far worse than anything on the streets outside. And they don’t like intruders. Before the sun comes up, Kerri and her friends will fight for their very lives… though death is only part of their nightmare.

100 Feet (2008)

100 Feet (2008)

My Rating: ★★☆☆☆

After killing her abusive cop husband, Mike, Marnie returns to New York to serve the remainder of her manslaughter sentence under house arrest. But Mike’s vengeful ghost isn’t done taunting her in this gripping supernatural thriller. Meanwhile, Mike’s ex-partner keeps close tabs on Marnie, who must wear an ankle bracelet that doesn’t allow her to escape — let alone move past a 100-foot radius.