Do You Need to Read Moonflowers Before Marla? Jonathan Janz Answers
- September 9, 2026
- Tagged as: Supernatural Horror
Jonathan Janz explains whether Moonflowers is required reading before Marla, which editions include it, and how it seeds season two.
Return to Oz and The Peanut Butter Solution both landed in 1985; both were made for kids, and both left scars. Grave Tone teams up with Drawn to Darkness for a childhood trauma double bill.
Grave Tone and Drawn to Darkness break down Return to Oz and The Peanut Butter Solution, two 1985 kids' movies that terrified a generation.
Jonathan Janz returns to talk about Marla, the horror novel that sold out in a 500-copy run and took four years to reach everyone else. Adaptation news, the Moonflowers prequel, and a horror town staffing game.
Jonathan Janz on the Marla TV series, the Veil screenplay, Moonflowers, and why he lets adaptations rip his books apart.
Daniel Barnett on horror’s stigma: a big house with a room for everyone, a sugar test, and a dad who swears he doesn’t like horror.
Daniel Barnett joins us to talk about his new book, Nightmareland Chronicles, the horror epic he pitches as The Dark Tower meets The Last of Us. Eternal night, a father crossing a darkened America, and six volumes in one enormous illustrated omnibus. Twelve are planned. He is halfway there.
Horror author Daniel Barnett talks The Nightmareland Chronicles, the illustrated omnibus, and how he plots a 12-volume epic.
Buddy 2026 review. Casper Kelly built a perfect 90s kids show, then let a homicidal orange unicorn loose inside it. We caught it at Fantasia. Practical effects and great puppets.
Our Buddy (2026) review: Casper Kelly's killer unicorn mascot turns 90s kids TV into gory horror comedy. We saw it at Fantasia and gave it 8.5/10.
Our early reactions to Colony that we caught at Fantasia 2026 Film Festival.
Colony (2026) is Yeon Sang-ho's return to zombies and it earns it. Meaghan and Arthur review the hive mind outbreak, Jun Ji-hyun's comeback, and the fungal goo swallowing a sealed Seoul tower. In North American theatres August 28 through Well Go USA.
Colony (2026) review: Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho returns with evolving hive-mind zombies. Fast, smart, and gloriously gory.
Insidious: Out of the Further Ending Explained: Keyface, the Mid-Credits Scene, and What Comes Next
- August 21, 2026
- Tagged as: Paranormal, Supernatural Horror
Insidious: Out of the Further ending explained: what happens to Cyrus, what the mid-credits scene means, and why Keyface is the real problem.
Insidious: Out of the Further review. We rewatched all six films, then saw Jacob Chase's sequel. Amelia Eve, Lin Shaye, a pillow fort that will not open, and a post-credits scene with real implications.
Our Insidious: Out of the Further review breaks down the pillow fort scare, that Keyface mid-credits sting, and the missing Specs and Tucker.