Initially, I was resigned to having another Hooptober selection that’s wildly inappropriate for the season but this pushes things too far and starts to feel silly in a way that lines up with the Masters Of Horror episodes I’ve been rewatching. It has some cool moments, some gnarly moments, and it’s a little creepy. The turn from child murder to Dan Brown shit is inconsistent. It just doesn’t maintain its strongest beats through the fumbles. Still, it’s kind of the noir-y, hard boiled shit I like so I had fun. Pulpy fun.
Ramsey Campbell lost my respect going after archive.org but he is very high on the list of horror authors begging for more adaptations instead of endless King slop.
Initially, I was resigned to having another Hooptober selection that’s wildly inappropriate for the season but this pushes things too far and starts to feel silly in a way that lines up with the Masters Of Horror episodes I’ve been rewatching. It has some cool moments, some gnarly moments, and it’s a little creepy. The turn from child murder to Dan Brown shit is inconsistent. It just doesn’t maintain its strongest beats through the fumbles. Still, it’s kind of the noir-y, hard boiled shit I like so I had fun. Pulpy fun.
Ramsey Campbell lost my respect going after archive.org but he is very high on the list of horror authors begging for more adaptations instead of endless King slop.
