The Tower at the End of the World by John Bellairs & Brad Strickland
In The Tower at the End of the World (2001), the ninth novel in John Bellairs & Brad Strickland’s LEWIS BARNAVELT series, Strickland once again pays tribute to the late Bellairs by returning to, and expanding the plot of the first novel in the series, The House with a Clock in its Walls.
At this point, Lewis is 13 years old and has just finished reading Sax Rohmer’s FU MANCHU series.
October 4th, 2021. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Brad Strickland, John Bellairs | Audio, Children, Horror | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Monster of Piedras Blancas directed by Irvin Berwick
It is truly remarkable how a cinematic image can make a lasting imprint on a young and impressionable mind. Take, for example, the 3-year-old me, who witnessed, in a movie theatre, the image of a man falling on a dynamite plunger and causing a bridge to blow up, resulting in a devastating train wreck. It is an image that I have never forgotten, despite all these intervening decades; one of the final scenes, of course, from the great David Lean film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),
October 4th, 2021. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 9 comments |
BTW, Steve Sterner will be performing at seven films during this upcoming fest: https://filmforum.org/series/clara-bow
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You bet, Marion!
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