Ryan Fleming

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Apr 1013 min read

Book Nook: For Want of a Nail

Review by Ryan Fleming. There's no doubt. The title tells you what the book's about. Picture courtesy Amazon. Amongst the many...

Feb 914 min read

An Alternate History of Horror XXI: Jump Scare

By Ryan Fleming. Nosferatu, 1922. One of the earliest classics of the genre. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. It seems appropriate for...

Feb 29 min read

Tales from Development Hell: I Am Legend

By Ryan Fleming Will Smith (left) in I Am Legend. Picture courtesy Wired. I’m afraid I have some sad news. This is the last article in...

Jan 2613 min read

An Alternate History of Horror XX: Blood, Brains, and Broadband.

By Ryan Fleming. Villa Diodati, the birthplace of both Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As...

Jan 1210 min read

Tales From Development Hell: The Hook

By Ryan Fleming. A publicity poster for On The Waterfront. It could equally have been used for The Hook. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...

Jan 514 min read

An Alternate History of Horror XIX: Inspired By Actual Events

By Ryan Fleming. Going viral - The Blair Witch Project. It could only have been made in the early Internet period. Picture courtesy...

Dec 29, 202312 min read

The Van Helsing Mysteries: Season 2

By Ryan Fleming Cross. Holy Water. Garlic. Stakes. Cheese Sandwiches. Just another day at the office for Van Helsing. Picture courtesy...

Dec 22, 20239 min read

Tales from Development Hell: The Dark Tower

By Ryan Fleming Idris Elba looking out of place. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As film development drags into the dreaded...

Dec 15, 202312 min read

An Alternate History of Horror XVIII: Onryō

By Ryan Fleming. Onryō; Japan's spirits of vengeance. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is, I am given to understand, the...

Dec 1, 202312 min read

The Van Helsing Mysteries. Season 1.

By Ryan Fleming. It's that man again. We'll see a lot of him. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In which Ryan Fleming imagines a 1970s...

Nov 24, 20239 min read

Tales from Development Hell: The Alien

By Ryan Fleming. No. Not this alien. Not quite. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Too often in the West, success or impact in film is...

Nov 22, 20235 min read

Marooned on Lavender Island.

Marooned guest: Ryan Fleming Tradition. Plus it saves searching out a new picture each time. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Once...

Nov 17, 202314 min read

An Alternate History of Horror XVII: Press Any Button

By Ryan Fleming. Zombie Hunters in New Orleans. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The feeling of fear in horror fiction is usually felt...

Oct 27, 20239 min read

Tales from Development Hell: Dinosaur

By Ryan Fleming Everyone loves a Styracosaurus. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In any industry, advances in technology can alter the...

Oct 13, 202314 min read

An Alternate History of Horror XVI: Behind the Sofa

By Ryan Fleming This is not a good sofa to hide behind. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Since age restrictions were introduced to...

Sep 29, 20239 min read

Tales from Development Hell: At the Mountains of Madness.

By Ryan Fleming HP Lovecraft. Unfilmable? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Unfilmable is mostly spoken about as a certitude, that...

Sep 22, 202313 min read

An Alternate History of Horror XV: Teenage Wasteland.

By Ryan Fleming. The grandmother of slasher films. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. An oversaturated marketplace caused by innumerable...

Aug 18, 202310 min read

Tales from Development Hell: The Bodyguard

By Ryan Fleming Inevitably, it was also made into a Musical. Bodyguards don't normally burst into song. Trust me on that. Picture...

Aug 11, 202314 min read

An Alternate History of Horror XIV: Paperbacks from Hell

By Ryan Fleming. Frankenstein at work in his laboratory. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Modern horror fiction was born in novels....

Jul 28, 202314 min read

Alternate History of Horror. Part XIII: Bad Karma

By Ryan Fleming Sales of chainsaws rose after the film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As the 1960s became the 1970s, US horror...

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