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October Recap: The Horror, the Horror
The final tally is in, and I watched 53 horror films across October, including 7 on Halloween. I’ve been posting about them individually (albeit without much commentary) on Threads, but here’s a better summary of what stood out and where my annual horror-binging journey took me this year. THE BEST “NEW TO ME” The Synapse…
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Countdown to Halloween: My Favorite Horror Movie
Every October I, like so many others, try to cram into the month as many horror movies as I can; I try to catch up on newer horror movies as well as those in my physical media collection that I bought in the last year (or more) and never got round to watching. One of…
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Countdown to Halloween: Cthulhu and Monster Mashes
Every year, since my son was six months old, I’ve made a Halloween movie starring…him. And, inevitably, myself and my wife and several of our friends. These are screened at our big Halloween party we throw every year, and added to YouTube largely as an afterthought. Sometimes they’re a little more ambitious. One year we…
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Countdown to Halloween: Your Next 10 Hammer Horrors
My previous post focused on ten films that everyone new to Hammer horror should know. (I cheated a bit, strongly recommending other essential Hammers without assigning them slots, because to pick ten is never enough.) So to allow some breathing room, if you consider that post a starting point for Hammer, what follows are ten…
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Countdown to Halloween: Essential Hammer Horror
Here at Midnight Video (my basement), we’ve got a hefty section devoted to the output of the UK’s Hammer Films, namely the classic incarnation that evolved out of the ashes of the 1930’s-40’s Exclusive Films to become a production company synonymous with the well-produced, intelligently-scripted, and envelope-pushing “Hammer horror” of the 1950’s-1970’s. (They had a…
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Kindness is Punk Rock
This post contains spoilers for James Gunn’s SUPERMAN (2025). Some people aren’t getting it. Lex Luthor didn’t edit the tape. There’s an argument in the socials right now about what is quickly becoming the 2025 SUPERMAN’s most controversial twist (though I am given to understand that it originates from an 80’s comic run and it…
About
J.D. Kendall is the author of the forthcoming horror novel A SHADOW SO BIG from Spilt Ink Press (September 2026). He has published short speculative fiction as Jeff Kuykendall, and he likes to dabble in other creative projects, such as co-directing the music video “Filming the Sequel Before All the Actors Die” for the beloved Elephant 6 indie rock band Elf Power. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and Wisconsin Writers Association. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington in Seattle and currently lives outside Madison, Wisconsin, with his family, two rescue dogs from Puerto Rico and Greece, and the private video store he built in his basement during lockdown, Midnight Video.
