Monthly Archives: January 2014

Brief Thoughts Late on a Friday Afternoon #4

Posted on January 31, 2014 by petertennant

ITEM: Okay, while slipping a condom over it may not be the best way to deal with a leaking tap, I have to admit that if you watch and wait for long enough it can get to be pretty amusing. … Continue reading →

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Trailer Trash – Under the Skin

Posted on January 29, 2014 by petertennant

Now this looks intriguingly different. According to my local multiplex, it’s ‘a gripping sci-fi featuring an unrelenting alien seductress who goes on the hunt for innocent men in the Scottish Highlands’. Guess they don’t have innocent men anywhere else. Based on … Continue reading →

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Filler content with Steve Rasnic Tem

Posted on January 28, 2014 by petertennant

These reviews originally appeared in Black Static #32:- ANXIETY AND SPONTANEOUS EXHILIRATION: STEVE RASNIC TEM Chances are if you’re at all familiar with speculative fiction, then at some point you will have encountered the work of American writer Steve Rasnic … Continue reading →

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Song for a Saturday – Walking in Memphis

Posted on January 25, 2014 by petertennant

There was a brief period in my life when I used to play this guy all the time.

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Filler content with miscellaneous novellas

Posted on January 24, 2014 by petertennant

This is part 2 of the chunk of miscellaneous reviews from Black Static #33 that I started posting yesterday:- The latest offering from John Llewellyn Probert, THE NINE DEATHS OF DR. VALENTINE (Spectral Press paperback, 85pp, £5.99) opens with the … Continue reading →

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Filler content with miscellaneous stuff

Posted on January 23, 2014 by petertennant

Some reviews that appeared in Black Static #33 (and as this was a rather big chunk of reviews I’ve split it between today and tomorrow):- MISCELLANEOUS Having taken on one horror archetype in her Vampire Gene series, author Sam Stone … Continue reading →

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Trailer Trash – I, Frankenstein

Posted on January 22, 2014 by petertennant

I saw a poster for this on the side of a bus when I was in Norwich last week. Out on the 29th, according to my local Vue. Somewhere the spirit of Mary Shelley is lip syncing the words to … Continue reading →

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Taking Over the Asylum

Posted on January 21, 2014 by petertennant

Against my better judgement, in the aftermath of Christmas I had a weekend of horror movies set in asylums. Asylum Erotica (1971) It stars Klaus Kinski and was made the year before Aguirre, Wrath of God, so how bad could … Continue reading →

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Books Read in 1981

Posted on January 20, 2014 by petertennant

Following on from last month’s Books Read in 1980. The total of books read for the year has dropped to a humble 81, which given the year feels like it was something I actually planned, but if so I don’t … Continue reading →

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Song for a Saturday – Pretty Boy Floyd

Posted on January 18, 2014 by petertennant

Sung by the beautiful Melanie:-

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