Dreama Walker plays Becky in Compliance, the new-to-DVD film–a film that induces shudders and pushes buttons to make viewers angry, surprised, and disgusted at how complicit everyone in the movie became. Anger and sadness mixing, people can be so awful to each other. Compliance is a psychological study of perversion carried out by gullible people…
Oranges and Sunshine tagline: Thousands of lost children. A secret buried by time. One woman will bring the truth to light. Rainy days take over this part of the Pacific Northwest, fires warm the home; a good book takes precedence even by battery light attached to my kindle when the wind knocks power out. In…
My favorite season is here. Fall into fall. Did anyone celebrate the solstice? Planning the trip to the pumpkin patch? Here is a photo of one visit to a most excellent pumpkin patch outside Portland, Oregon, complete with two terrifying corn mazes. One for daylight, and the other for night time horror screams. Yes, I…
JAWS — Going back to Amity: A Classic Film Recommendation. Where were you when you first watched Jaws? Do you have a story to tell? Please let me know what your thoughts are in the comments section. “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” — improvised line by Roy Scheider from Jaws. I received word earlier…
Hortense Daigle: Children can be nasty, don’t you think? I caught a showing of the classic suspense film The Bad Seed this past Halloween week on TCM the other night. There were no commercial ads to break up Rhoda Penmark’s murder spree; no light in the background to filter the slow dawning of devastating knowledge for Rhoda’s…
This morning finds me working in two separate directions. My mind is split between two endeavors, and a third hovers behind these, just waiting to take over. So many walks, alone, or with my German Shepherd, Zippy, across the meadow, give me time to think about the characters in my own novel, the paths they…
Ajax The Gray chases Eartha Kitt’N around the shop area. Did anyone else catch sight of Deception Pass Bridge and Bowman Bay featured in a Superbowl ad? The writing of book 2 continues, with a revision of setting and some characters too, a scaling down. While doing this I’ve watched movies at night as a…