The major fault I see when I watch The Overlook Hotel is that it spends way too much time dropping unsubtle hints that much of Jack Torrance’s post-film tenure as janitor of the Overlook involved his being under the influence of Pennywise. Way too many red balloons floating around in the background of scenes for… Continue reading The Outlook Hotel
Tag: Horror
Yearning for Shoggoths
In the wake of Guillermo del Toro’s big night at the Oscars, here’s hoping someone will finally give him the money to show us his take on an Old One: [From a New Yorker profile written when he was between films, having left the ill-fated effort to film The Hobbit and not yet turned his… Continue reading Yearning for Shoggoths