Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Month: October 2020
Ranking the Twilight Zone
I’m engaged in a noble project with my twelve-year old daughter: watching every single Twilight Zone episode and ranking them. We watch and run them through a rubric to give them a score from 0 to 7. The episodes are graded in three categories:… Continue Reading “Ranking the Twilight Zone”
Ranking the Twilight Zone
I’m engaged in a noble project with my twelve-year old daughter: watching every single Twilight Zone episode and ranking them. We watch and run them through a rubric to give them a score from 0 to 7. The episodes are graded in three categories:… Continue Reading “Ranking the Twilight Zone”
Scary Movies: Shadow of the Vampire
Okay, this film is a clever one. When the film Nosferatu, which I reviewed last week, came out in 1921, the make-up and scariness of the vampire Count Orlok in the movie was like nothing that had ever been seen in film before. Shadow… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Shadow of the Vampire”
Scary Movies: Nosferatu
Back to our regularly scheduled October slate of horror movies, and this week we have Nosferatu, a German silent film from 1922. It’s a movie I’ve seen three or four times over the years. Nosferatu is closely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel, though… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Nosferatu”
Scary Movies: Atom Age Vampire
‘Tis the season of scary movies, including ones I’m not scheduled to watch. It was about 8:30 last night and I decided on a whim to watch Atom Age Vampire, which is included on one of my collections of “50 Horror Classics” and such… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Atom Age Vampire”
Ranking The Twilight Zone
I love ranking things! I rank horror movies, James Bond movies, and comic book movies. Now the time has come for a new ranking challenge: The Twilight Zone. I’m (re-)watching the episodes with my daughter, who’s helping me. For now, I only intend to… Continue Reading “Ranking The Twilight Zone”
Scary Movies: The Lost Boys
The movie this week is one I haven’t seen since I was an early teen-ager, and it’s one I’ve been wanting to re-watch it for some time to see how it holds up. And I think it held up pretty well! Even today, it… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: The Lost Boys”
Scary Movies: Dracula
October already! And as every October, I force my children to watch scary movies with me. This year, the theme is vampires, and our first movie is Dracula, released by Universal in 1931. I hardly feel like I need to describe this one, as… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Dracula”
