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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9863481" data-attributes="member: 86653">I just finished Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix. It’s a really great non-fiction book about the horror boom of the 70s and 80s focusing on the amazing cover art. It’s a walk down memory lane for some, a first step in a woder appreciation of the horror genre for others. Can’t recommend enough.I tried and dropped another Shaun Hutson novel Breeding Ground, the sequel to Slugs. Apparently he’s a splatterpunk writer. For those who don’t know, splatterpunk is at the extreme edge of gross-out horror. It’s 100% not my jam. So that’s Hutson out for future reads. Too bad, I really enjoyed Slugs.Around here Saturday night is Svengoolie night. We love watching goofy old horror movies with a bit of trivia and bad jokes. I really miss the heyday of horror hosts. Jo Bob and Elvira the most. Though Elvira was more my jam. Sven is slowly being replaced with three new horror hosts. Of them, Nostalgiaferatoo is the only one I like. I really hope when Sven retires Nostalgiaferatoo takes over.Last night’s feature was The Mist (2007), an adaptation of the Stephen King short story. It was edited for TV but kept some blood and gore. The government performs experiments and punches a hole into another dimension. A strange mist comes through…along with a few monsters. We follow some survivors trapped in a supermarket. It’s a generally unremarkable story except for the religious loon trapped with the group and the ending. The loon devolves quickly into wanting to offer blood sacrifices to the monsters in the mist. The ending is rather bleak if you look at it one way and slightly less so when looked at it from another.[ISPOILER]A group of four adults and a child escape in a truck. They drive until the gas runs out but do not escape the mist. They have a gun with four bullets. The father of the child kills everyone else then steps out of the truck hoping to be eaten by the monsters. A minute or so later the mist starts to clear and the army arrives escorting survivors. That’s a bleak ending. Until you realize there’s zero chance the government would ever let those people go and talk about this. The survivors are, at best, going to be held indefinitely. At worst, lined up and shot. Dad saved them from that. Either way, he saved them from the monsters.[/ISPOILER]</blockquote>

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