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Having finally seen The Green Knight that I longed for so much, I completed viewing pretty much all the movies in my schedule for the spring-summer season and it’s time to pick a winner… which really wasn’t easy because there were so many good ones this time!!! Just to give a little reminder, check here to see my complete lineup. There are a couple of movies that I didn’t get to watch this past season, but I’m sure I’ll catch up. Also, I watched a few movies outside of my pretend-festival and I ended up loving and here they are: In the Earth ; The Empty Man and Come True . From my initial lineup, an unholy s-trilogy stood out and made the top 3: Spiral , Son and Sator . And the indisputable winner of my Stay-At-Home Film Festival Spring-Summer is, the super original folk horror/psychological horror SATOR!!!

Time for new reads, enjoy! Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo Children of Chicago borrows from the Grimm tale "Pied Piper" or "Der Rattenfänger von Hameln" to twist and bend into the horrific teenager killings taking place i n Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood , signed with the graffiti "Pay the Piper". Detective Lauren Medina who is in charge of the case has many demons of her own and one of them just might have to do with what happened at Humboldt Park. Following her through the investigations, slowly unfolding the mysteries of that unfortunate night, doubts will unfold if she really is the right person to treat this case. Pelayo's crime/mystery/horror mash-up should be a real treat for especially German horror readers because it doesn't only borrow its main storyline from Pied Piper, there are also tons and tons of talk about fairy tales in general, and the Grimm brothers in special, and how terrifying they actually are! Incidentally, th...

Reviewing The Roo by Alan Baxter Let's get this blog started with something rather playful, namely the wonderfully silly and gory creature feature The Roo by Australian author Alan Baxter. It doesn't take the math patrol to see that this one is no literary masterpiece that belongs on every school's reading list, neither is it intellectually exacting horror that will broaden your horizons... But who cares? The Roo is thoroughly silly, pure splatter fun with the brilliant premise of a kangaroo running riot in the Australian outback, murdering humans in inventive ways an actual kangaroo would never even be able to think of... mainly because they are herbivores and generally gentle creatures. And that's a good thing, because you'd never want to be slapped to death with the dismembered arms of your dead wife or be ripped in two halves by the claw of a hopping roo... Which by the way, in the foreword Baxter suggests you google before reading. I did and I can confirm th...