Author: MHJohnsen
City of Lost Children
If you have not seen La cité des enfants perdus, directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, you have missed out. This film, although now more than 20 years old, is glorious. It is a French dark sc... Read More
Alexii Muftoll’s In The Tall Grass
I came across Alexii Muftoll’s short horror animation film In The Tall Grass when I was writing the review for Stephen King and Joe Hill’s novella of the same name. The animation is an atm... Read More
Review: In the Tall Grass
In the Tall Grass is a short novella published as a two-parter in Esquire, later released as an ebook. It is a collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill, both of which know how to spin a scary t... Read More
Book review: At the Mountains of Madness
I have read some of Lovecraft’s work – ‘The Shunned House’ and ‘The Rats in the Walls’ are examples of stories I liked – but I have overall been less convince... Read More
Horror, death and isolation
The more I read horror, the less I think of it as genre fiction. Sure, there are things that go bump, there are tentacles and fangs and clowns, but horror to me is not about monsters, it’s about... Read More
Salieri the villain
“I will speak for you, Father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.” If I had to choose a favourite film, it would be Amadeus, almost so... Read More
Painting the North
Kaare Espolin Johnson (1907-1994) depicted the nature and culture of northern Norway better than any other artist I know. He would typically start with a black surface, then scratch white lines in the... Read More