Gary Scott Beatty Still Working The Dunwich Magic

EDITOR'S NOTE:  Occasional columnist Gary Scott Beatty keeps us up to date on his current project as well as what’s good in the world of horror entertainment . . . . . . .

This week, poor Dunwich resident Dr. Asa Hamilton is one of the first to notice The Horror is out walking and he's not too pleased about it. Crunch! Have a look! I posted this entire inked page on Patreon, for you and everyone, patron or not, here. I keep saying this, but I can't wait to start rendering color for this graphic novel. You can't see it, but I already have it planned out in me brain. +++ Halloween Month Movies Crazy Like Wounds, Part One What's inside doesn't matter. That's the theme of the wonderfully hallucinatory American Psycho. If you haven't seen this movie and like horror comedies with plots you have to assemble in your own head (like my graphic novel Wounds), this is one for you. Theme! Oh, for a return to movies with themes. How American Psycho works with its theme is amusingly obvious. There is the executives' cookie cutter same-ness. They constantly call each other wrong names and no one seems to care. Their business cards are virtually the same but they critique them like picky print experts. Same-ness is emphasized in the conversation. Yes, what's inside doesn't matter to these people. As the title indicates, there is ever increasing blood and mayhem, fairly tastefully done. Christian Bale does an impressive job with his character, an investment banking executive who hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers. The character is so amusing it's worth watching the entire movie just for that character. American Psycho is currently on Neftlix. +++ Halloween Month Movies Crazy Like Wounds, Part Two Speaking of character, He Never Died also features a low key, provoked to violence character that is a joy to watch. Kudos to Henry Rollins for fleshing out Jack, a social outcast that just wants to be left alone. People around him, of course, just can't understand that. Mayhem ensues. Writer and director (always a good sign) Jason Krawczyk does a great job keeping up the tension in the first half of the movie's slow burn. You just know things are going to go bad. He Never Died is also now on Netflix. +++ You know what's inside does matter. You know that. Remember what's inside others also matters. The surest way to make someone happy is to ask them about themselves. You could both be stomped by a monster tomorrow. It could happen. Make connections today. In glorious service to our Aazurn overlords, Gary Scott Beatty StrangeHorror.com