by Casey Burrin | Nov 1, 2020 | Film Review
Let’s just say it. The zombie movie is the junk food of horror films. Think of the greatest horror films of all time – The Shining, Alien, The Exorcist, Psycho, King Kong…the list goes on. While those films have been dissected for their insights into human nature and...
by Casey Burrin | Sep 2, 2020 | Film Review
The best scene of the new Taiwanese horror film The Bridge Curse comes early in the film. Six college students are on a cursed bridge supposedly haunted by a rage-filled spirit. One of them gets left alone on the bridge – of course. When he drops his cell phone...
by Casey Burrin | Aug 23, 2020 | Film Review
In the opening scene of British horror film Host, a 20-something types away on her computer in a mundane apartment. At this point, I’m not expecting much. But I wasn’t expecting much before. The found-footage film is called Host after all. Not Black Host. Not Killer...
by Casey Burrin | Jun 5, 2020 | New Casey Burrin Book
My whole life I’ve suffered from night terrors. I’d wake up in the middle of the night struggling to breath and thrashing around, feeling as if I was going to die. I’d sit up in bed and look around at a room I’d never seen before. For about 30 seconds, I could not...
by Casey Burrin | May 28, 2020 | Film Review
Elizabeth and Kevin Parsons live in a cookie-cutter, two-story home in suburban America with their 8-year-old son, Joshua. Are you bored yet? Well, don’t worry. Joshua has an imaginary friend. His name is Z. Why he’s named Z, I don’t know, but that’s his name. The...