“Let Me In, Let Me In” was salvaged from the opening sequence of Ragazze Finali, originally intended as the second story of the ‘Final Girls’ series. It started strongly enough, but ended up being such a direct pastiche of gialli that the fun rather fell out of it. Regardless, I was fond enough of the [...]
August 23, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: angel, arthur machen, buffy the vampire slayer, dario argento, final girls, gamertag, giallo, halo, horror fiction, horror story, in the loop, inferno, legion, margret atwood, mega-shark vs giant octopus, michael winner, midnight sun, Mother of tears, needing ghosts, opera, oryx and crake, paranormal magazine, ramsey campbell, short story, suspiria, the exorcist, the exorcist iii, the great god pan, the lost room, the nameless, the omen, the sentinel, the three impostors, the white people, trauma, william peter blatty . Author: John . Comments: Leave a Comment
I think I’ll take a break from plugging my writings and bitching about the general state of horror today to consider Joss Whedon’s latest effort, ‘Dollhouse’. Again, I’ve come late to his work, having dismissed Buffy and Angel as adolescent bollocks when they were first released and despised his screenplay for Alien Resurrection with a [...]
August 10, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: amy acker, angel, buffy the vampire slayer, dollhouse, echo, eliza dushku, firefly, joss whedon, serenity, sierra, victor . Author: John . Comments: Leave a Comment
I’ve just dumped 11 pages of the original draft of ‘Final Girls Part Two’. I’d started it as a continuation of the first one, telling the tale of what happened in the immediate aftermath of the finale of the original short story. But the more I thought of it, the more I think it devalued [...]
August 7, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: dario argento, final girls, giallo, horror fiction, italian horror . Author: John . Comments: Leave a Comment
Spent a little bit of time this afternoon doing a ‘cover photo’ for the first episode of Final Girls. See below.
Ideally I’d like to give all of the episodes (and possibly all future stories) at least one image. I’m not the greatest artist in the world, but I think it helps people know what they’re [...]
August 1, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: final girls, illustration, john forth . Author: John . Comments: Leave a Comment