Category: Reviews and Recommendations

• Gateway Horror: Return to Oz

  Coming to theaters this June (of 1985). You’ve seen it, right? Have I profiled you correctly? It’s gateway horror. Starter horror. Horror wrapped up in fantasy to be presented to children–not at all hard to believe if you have read any fairy tales. The Snow Queen, anyone? Goblins going around, breaking the devil’s custom mirror, […]

  Sarah Cormier

  August 30, 2022

  Gateway horror, Reviews and Recommendations

  Disney, Gateway horror, horror, horror movies, kids, kids movies, recommendation, spooky disney

• Parenting Rocks, Plus a Recommendation

  Hi there, readers. Thanks for hanging out with me today. Over the weekend, I went on a much-needed girls’ trip to a cute Airbnb in a small, historic Louisiana town, which could have been a big town, a cruise ship, or an abandoned mine for all we cared. We cooked and ate and drank and […]

  Sarah Cormier

  August 23, 2022

  Parental horror, Reviews and Recommendations

  bible stories, horror, kids, parenting, recommendation, Shirley Jackson, stories

• More Demonic Infestation, Writing Hurdles and a Recommendation

  That’s quite an agenda for a Friday, now, isn’t it? Hi readers! I hope the two of you are having a great day today. Guess what? My last post mentioned the phenomenon of demonic infestation, and wouldn’t you know it, one of my favorite podcasts, Southern Demonology, recently released a two-part episode that discusses this […]

  Sarah Cormier

  August 12, 2022

  Parental horror, Reviews and Recommendations

  demonic, dreams, horror, parenting, podcast, recommendation, writting

• The Nonfiction that Scared my Kid to Tears and a Recommendation

  

  There is nothing scarier than not being able to protect your children in what should be the safest place: your home. Think about it. This is where the truly good supernatural horror movies really get to us. We are terrorized in our own beds, and the things that go bump in the night can get […]

  Sarah Cormier

  August 4, 2022

  Not Horror but Horrifying, Real-life horror, Reviews and Recommendations

  environmental disasters, gaslighting, nonfiction, parenting, Real-life horror, reviews