If you've been reading my writing for awhile, you may know that I've learned some rules from horror movies that have aided in my survival for the last forty some odd years. For example, I don't do drugs or have sex in the woods. And I avoid old Hollywood actors and actresses. Now, thanks to Luciferina, I've added a new one: don't drink Ayahuasca in a haunted church.

Natalia is a 19-year-old novice nun -- who has never been baptized…

I always think about the people that walk past me every day. What are their secret stories? Where will life take them? Where do they go? When I pass a house on a country road, I wonder about the paths of the people who have crossed through its doors. I wonder about the lives that lived in the house where I now make my home and the people who will live here after I am gone. God Knows Where I…

New York City in 1974 must have felt like the end of the world. Based on the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield, Death Wish was the answer. In fact, in many theaters, the audience stood up and cheered as Paul Kersey got his bloody revenge for the crims visited upon him and his family.

The film we're about to discuss went through many twists and turns as it made its way to the screen. Originally, it ended with the vigilante…

You can pish posh this movie by its title or the fact that it rips off A Nightmare on Elm Street or that it's ridiculous that it has a slasher who has a Warlock guitar with a giant drill at the end. Or you can just do what I did: utterly enjoy every single minute of it. Also, of note, this is the only slasher series to be completely directed by women.

I never saw the original film and I'm…