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Apartment 16 - Horror Novel Review
Author: Adam Nevill
Publisher: Pan Books
Country: UK
Year: 2010
Nevill’s second novel, released the year before The Ritual (which subsequently was made into a 2016 film with Rafe Spall in the cast), Apartment 16 is a ghostly, demonic book of the dark arts and things which don’t stay dead in the middle of a rich London apartment complex. Everything’s kicked off when Apryl arrives from America,…
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Some Will Not Sleep
My second book into the horror genre, and leaning a little more towards what I'm looking for. In my head, this is really the book that starts my horror novel journey. This is a book that another friend let me borrow, they are big into horror, so they gave me a few different types of horror to start my journey.
Some Will Not Sleep
Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Plot(s): ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Writing style: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I think technically the overall rating should be like 4 1/2 stars, but it gets a full 5 stars because I would absolutely read this again. I am also going to be owning this now, more so because I accidentally spilled coffee on my friend's book (my bad, my dude). And not saying this because I wouldn't own it, I just wasn't planning on owning it so soon.
I really enjoyed Nevill's writing style, it's different... but then again all of horror will likely be different than what I'm use to. But Nevill does a great job of building up the suspense and then giving us our big reveal. I felt anxious as times... basically chomping at the bit to get to the climax. So when those feeling's get evoked, regardless of the material, it's always good to me.
Another major feeling that you'll likely get, because I sure as hell did with every story, while reading these: disgust. Literally every time we got to the climax, or the point, I made a face. A few I even said "ugh" out loud. Nevill's writing is that great, where you can clearly visualize what he's describing with his creatures. Might not be how he saw them, but the way my brain created the images were plenty jarring
It's also good to add here that all of these short stories feature some type of creature, and all said creatures are grotesque. It's certainly not gory to me - which can be taken with a grain of salt because I'm not bothered by gore too much. It's not disturbing per se - again, grain of salt, I never felt disturbed during this book. Every story features creature(s), and they are just... gross. Again, the writing here... superb.
Plot(s) got a 4 only because I didn't love every story, and I think this is a fair rating for this reasoning. It's hard to fairly rate plot, I think, with a book of short stories where the stories themselves are only like 30 pages long. Overall, I enjoyed every story, but not every story really jumped at me. Speaking of which...
My favorite stories from this book: Mother's Milk, Yellow Teeth, To Forget and Be Forgotten, and The Ancestors.
I had a hard time deciding whether or not Mother's Milk was going to be on that list because to me, this is the most grotesque. This one disgusted me the most. But in that same vein... since it really impressed on me so... I do think it deserves the mention. Yellow Teeth felt a little more on the disturbing side to me, but it was such a good build up. I felt like this one definitely had movie vibes, in a good way... I'd watch it. To Forget and Be Forgotten also fairly disturbing at the end. This ending I really enjoyed, the wrap up of it all. There was something of a relief mixed with dread. I'm not sure how to really explain it. Then The Ancestors. I think this one bothered me a bit because it involved a child. So there definitely something very childlike about the POV in this one, which I appreciate when written well, and Nevill did a good job. There's also something about all the hair that's mentioned, gave me the heebie jeebies.
Overall: definitely recommend this one, with the caveat that if 1. you like horror in the first place and 2. if you like horror and don't mind more grotesque/somewhat gory horror. I recognize this is not everyone's cup of tea, so I want to make that very warning clear. I did not mind it one bit, but it still isn't quite the horror I'm yearning for. But, like I said, I wouldn't mind reading this again, and I will be looking into reading more by Nevill.
Read on beautiful people. 📖🤘
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The three of us, one of whom, let me remind you, is twelve, went out for dinner tonight, and somehow dinner for three at BW3s cost ninety fucking American dollars, so lemme channel some misplaced rage into some quick reviews. First, a video game, because since I’m not doing the YouTube thing any longer I need to put those here again.
Lies of P (Xbox Series X) is a surprisingly competent…
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New video alert! And a sort of face reveal I guess (not that I haven't shown my face before lol but this marks my first video where I sit in front of a camera lol). I review the book I read for the month of January as I try to keep up my 2023 goals of both reading more & keeping up making youtube videos. Feel free to check out & if you do, feel free to reblog!
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book review time!
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
loved this book! gave me nightmares /pos and i couldn’t stop reading. very spooky, very folky, and the characters were pretty interesting. a little sexist :( and it used the f slur a few too many times for my taste (it made sense contextually but wasn’t really necessary). if you want to ignore that and get frightened about the forest, i highly recommend! it didn’t hinder the experience much and i was mostly focused on the scary beast that kills people.
overall rating 7.8 out of 10 stars
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The Reddening, A Book Review
★☆☆☆☆
"One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civilisation. Ancient rites, old deities and savage ways can reappear in the places you least expect." (Goodreads)
The Guardian's blurb is a lie.
To be fair, this is the first novel by author Adam Nevill that I have read -- but will also most likely be the last. I found this book to be an arduous journey into how painfully predictable a series of events can be. Every scene feels overwritten and devolves into tangents that never fully entangle themselves back into the plot. Tension? Never heard of her. There are only so many chapters of a character swimming in freezing water I can sit through before I stop caring whether she drowns or not.
It's a disappointment to say the last. As someone who highly enjoys folklore and is down for some culty gore, I had high hopes. The gore is the only thing it delivers on, and even then, sparingly. For a cannibalistic tribe, I anticipated a lot more chopping and sawing. However, the biggest massacre is only described after the fact and within the last forty pages of the novel. The rest of the book is a lot of walking, a lot of adjectives, and a lot of concern about being fertile.
Which brings me to my biggest gripe. Holy hell, was this a case of men-writing-women. The two female protagonists immediately see one another as romantic threats and their primary character traits seem to be mother vs. barren woman. Close attention is also paid to women's bodies, particularly breasts. And, in the most horrifyingly comedic way, we're given a detailed description of just how horny (big spoiler) murdering makes our journalist protag. It's ridiculous.
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Book Review: The Ritual by Adam Nevill
Went into this book having already fallen in love with the film made from it (currently on Netflix in the U.S.) I had some high expectations, so imagine my surprise when I like the movie more than the book. And that almost never happens.
If you haven’t seen the movie, the book is about four middle age friends who venture into Norway for a hike through the countryside. When one of them is injured…
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Movie Review - Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman and Album Review - U2 “Songs of Surrender”
I can’t think of a better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day today than with a double dose of my favorite Irish rock band ever U2! I’ve been a longtime fan since discovering their early music videos in the mid 80s. Then with The Joshua Tree, they blew up and took the world by storm: a personality band where singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. were bigger than the sum of their parts and brought their sound together with meaningful lyrics. I’ve been lucky enough to see this band on three separate occasions in 1997, 2001 and 2005. Through this blog, I’ve had a chance to do album reviews of the recent anniversary editions of The Joshua Tree in 2017, All That You Can’t Leave Behind in 2020, and Achtung Baby in 2021. This week I got the chance to do an album review of the band’s new album Songs of Surrender which is being released today as well as the new documentary film Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman, which premieres on Disney+ today.
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman documentary
movie poster
There are a lot of things about this doc that got my attention when I heard about it: (1) director Morgan Neville is one of the great documentarians of the now. In addition to winning an Oscar for 20 Feet From Stardom, he directed one of my favorite docs of the last decade Won’t You Be My Neighbor? about Fred Rogers. But he has always had a passion for musicians as his subjects, notably the docs he did on Johnny Cash, Keith Richards and Yo-Yo Ma. (2) host David Letterman is a legend! His brand of comedy truly reinvented the talk show format when he hosted Late Night and Late Show, and now in his “retirement” his interview show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, he is always a reliable host / interviewer. (3) U2 is always an interesting doc subject. Phil Joanou’s concert doc U2 Rattle and Hum showed the band on tour in 1987 in North America and immersing themselves in American culture as they became the biggest band on the planet, Mark Pellington and Catherine Owens’ concert doc U2 3D showed the band on their 2006 tour in 3D, and Davis Guggenheim’s From the Sky Down was a deep dive into the making of Achtung Baby. All of which were different approaches to the same subject. Bottom line: I knew going into this movie that even if it was shot on a cell phone and was just Dave, Bono and Edge reading a phone book, it would have something interesting about it.
The Edge, David Letterman and Bono
The doc shows Letterman on his first visit to Dublin, Ireland. He goes around with U2′s Bono and The Edge (Adam and Larry were not available at the time). The band members show Dave around, perform songs, and talk with Dave about their band as well as Ireland’s history. There are a number of other interviewees including musician Glen Hansard.
What was interesting about this doc is that it is actually two different docs that dovetail into each other: Dave learning about Dublin from the locals and U2 talking about their history having formed their band in Dublin in the mid 70s when they were teens. As someone who hasn’t visited Dublin (other than a layover at their airport), I was very engaged because it showed how both the country and the band have had similar trajectories, as Dave pointed out the country is a little over 100 years old, the band is almost 50 years old. As we’ve seen on his Netflix show, Dave is actually a good interviewer. But the real star of this doc is the amazing performance footage. Highly impressive to see Bono and The Edge together with maybe a few other musicians playing their songs in an intimate environment. This is one of the best music / pop culture docs I expect to see this year (and it’s only March)!
Bono & The Edge... premieres on Disney+ today: https://disneyplusoriginals.disney.com/movie/bono-and-the-edge-a-sort-of-homecoming-with-dave-letterman
4.5 out of 5 stars
Songs of Surrender album
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It’s been over 5 years since the last U2 studio album, Songs of Experience released in Dec. 2017. I say this because at over 5 years, this is one of the longest gaps between albums for U2, No Line on the Horizon released in Feb. 2009 and Songs of Innocence released in Sept. 2014 is slightly longer. I bring this up because it’s been a few years and now expectations are high. What they have released is something completely different than anything else in their discography: re-recording and re-interpreting 40 of their songs over the course of their career, Songs of Surrender.
U2 circa late 70s
Recorded during the pandemic, this album serves as a companion to Bono’s recent memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. The album is 40 songs, spread out over 4 CDs (there are other editions being released, but I got to review the 4-disc version) and it clocks in at almost 3 hours. The album reminds me a lot of MTV Unplugged live albums, where musicians would perform their songs acoustic and re-interpret them (maybe even change the lyrics if the mood struck). U2 never did an episode of MTV Unplugged, but as far back as the Zoo TV Tour, they would have a portion of their concerts where they performed acoustic. This is like the MTV Unplugged episode the band had up their sleeve and are just giving us now. These songs are stripped down to their core essence, no studio trickery or sound effect bells-and-whistles here. In most of these songs, it is very few instruments and Bono is singing as he is in 2023, “Stories for Boys” being the most obvious example of changing the song to who they are now. There’s even some cellos and violins on some tracks. This is a solid album from start to finish. Many U2 detractors have complained that there is too much reliance, especially from The Edge, on technology and guitar effects. This is the album that will shut up those detractors! The entire band is a well-oiled machine that all play off each other so well and this album is both a look back and a look at the here and now.
For info on Songs of Surrender: https://shop.u2.com/
4 out of 5 stars
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Book Review: The Vessel by Adam L.G. Nevill
Book Review: The Vessel by Adam L.G. Nevill
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Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. I’m bringing you my Friday book review today, and this week it’s The Vessel by Adam L.G. Nevill.
The Vessel by Adam L.G. Nevill was first published in October 2022 by Ritual Limited and runs 170 pages.
PlotLeaving behind an abusive partner, Jess begins a new job at Nerthus House as a home carer for an elderly woman named Flo.Hoping to provide a better future…
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Banquet for the Damned by Adam Nevill
Banquet for the Damned by Adam Nevill
Banquet for the Damned by Adam Nevill
Horror
544 Pages
Published by Macmillan (first published in 2004)
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My rating: ⭐ ⭐
Very few believed that Professor Coldwell could in fact commune with the spirits, but now, something has come forth from the darkness in Scotland’s oldest university town. It’s…
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Horror Film Reviews | FRESH - NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE - WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING
Horror Film Reviews | FRESH – NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE – WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING
Fresh (2022)
Online dating has been a miserable experience for Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones). But just as she’s losing hope of finding a match, she meets Steve (Sebastian Stan) — a grossly charming and charismatic gentleman. Their chemistry is undeniable, and after a short time of dating, the two plan a weekend away, a getaway that spirals into a nightmare for Noa.
Fresh is an outlandish…
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PSYCHIC KILLER (1975) Reviews and now free to watch online
PSYCHIC KILLER (1975) Reviews and now free to watch online
‘He freed his mind and body to commit the most sensual and shocking acts imaginable!’
Psychic Killer is a 1975 American paranormal horror film about a former mental patient who uses astral projection to kill people.
Directed by Ray Danton (Deathmaster; Hannah, Queen of the Vampires) from a screenplay co-written with Greydon Clark (director of (Uninvited; Without Warning; Satan’s Cheerleaders) and…
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I’ve recently rewatched a movie called The Ritual(2017) based on the book writed by Adam Nevill and I must say that I truly loved this movie!
The acting, the settings, the feeling of being trapped in those woods without having a way out. I really loved all the details and I love how from a movie of 4 guys going on a hiking trip in the mountains after one of their best friends died, went to a true real life nightmare.
I first watched this movie when I was like in 7th grade and I was a scared lil kid back then and when I watched it for the first time I shit myself from how scared I was and I coudn’t watch more of the movie, I’ve watch only like half of it. And than this year I’ve decided to give it a try and man I really fell in love with it. I even rewached it three times already.
I like how there aren’t many jumpscares and just a little bit of gore but I was really interested in the nordic mythology and for me personally this movie is very important.
I really loved the 4 main characters that ones being Luke(the main protagonist), Hutch, Dom and Phil. They are just some good ol’ university friends trying to connect again after so much time by going on a trip in the Sweden mountains to honour their dead friend Rob who was killed in a store by some robers.
Luke as I said is the main protagonist and he is the one who the movie is happening around him. He was the one who was with Rob when he was killed and he didn’t take action to save him or help him and now himself and the rest of the group blames him for what happend to Rob.
Everyone blames him exept for Hutch(the second main character) who is the leader of the group and the most closest to Luke. He is the only one who don’t blames Luke and the only one who still considers Luke his friend.
Dom is like the crybaby drama queen of the group. He is always the one with the big mounth and complains alot. He is like that one annoying friend but you still care about him beacuse you know him how he is. Dom is the one who blames Luke for what happend and that grows the tension between the group.
Phill is the character with the less characterization not having a clear personality and most of the movie being in the background. Not a big fan of this character beacuse of the lack of personality he has and beacuse he had so much potential to have a good role in the group instead of just being there.
I won’t get too much into the details since I want to create separate posts for my review or discussing about this movie since this might be my new hyperfixation for a while 🤷♂️
I’ll just talk more about it and maybe starting doing some fanarts of it since I wanted to do that since my first rewatched of it.
I wanna buy the book as well to read it beacuse now I wanna consume as much as I can from this series, movies, books, youtube videos, theories, fanarts, fanfics ANYTHING.
I know not many people are interested in this movie anymore but I’ll still create these posts maybe, maybe someone who still likes this movie in 2023 will discover my blog :,)
So that’s it for now, I’ll continue posting stuff about the ritual for a while since I have this hyperfixation for two weeks already and it doesn’t wanna stop.
For now have these gifs I created from the movie they might contain spoilers. Sorry for the bad quitality I’ve made them on my phone 💀
I have more gifs which I wanna post but Tumblr doesn’t allow me to have more than 10 in one post so for the rest of the gifs I’ll just post will be these ones I have of my most favorite character from this movie
✨HUTCH✨
He is such a goof ball and a sweetheart! Plus I really love his actor Rob James Collier
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The Folio Book of Horror Stories, by the Folio Society
A beautiful collection of short horror stories by The Folio Society, published in 2018. Considering most (don't quote me on this!) of these stories are in the public domain or legally accessible online, they can be read online with a quick google search. However, this edition is outright marvelous, and evidently, tons of love has been poured into the creation of it - Corey Brickley's illustrations are divine and it also contains writer and editor Ramsey Campbell's introduction, both of which tie the collection beautifully.
Writing a review of each story wouldn't be too affective, as each is unique on its own. I have read The Yellow Wallpaper and House of Usher and both are beautifully written and depict aspects of supernatural horror (Poe) and psychological horror (Gilman), and the collection provides a great opportunity to expose oneself to short horror stories from the 18th century up until modern times. An awesome book to introduce readers to the different subgenres of horror before deepdiving into full-lenght books! The list of the stories are as follows:
▪︎ The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
▪︎ The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
▪︎ Count Magnus, by M. R. James (1904)
▪︎ The White People, by Arthur Machen (1904)
▪︎ Ancient Lights, by Algernon Blackwood (1912)
▪︎ The Music of Erich Zann, by H. P. Lovecraft (1922)
▪︎ Smoke Ghost, by Fritz Leiber (1941)
▪︎ Brenda, by Margaret St. Clair (1954)
▪︎ The Bus, by Shirley Jackson (1965)
▪︎ Again, by Ramsey Campbell (1981)
▪︎ Vastarien, by Thomas Ligotti (1987)
▪︎ Call Home, by Dennis Etchison (1991)
▪︎ 1408, by Stephen King (2002)
▪︎ Flowers of the Sea, by Reggie Oliver (2011)
▪︎ Hippocampus, by Adam Nevill (2015)
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Review for This Wretched Valley By Jenny Kiefer
I read this based on Cynthia Pelayo’s comments about it. She was Jenny’s mentor. It did not disappoint.
It’s been a long time since a book truly freaked me out. Last Days by Adam Nevill is the last one I can remember wanting to stop because I was freaked out. This was like that.
I’m getting ahead of myself, so I’ll backtrack.
The opening of this book reminds me of At The Mountains of Madness.…
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Happy Day 19 of 31 days of Halloween on Netflix!
No one Gets out Alive (2021)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
😱😱😱.5/5
🩸🩸🩸.5/5
“And in the Darkest Places only
Kindness Matters”
Ambar an undocumented woman from Mexico, moves into a boarding house. While she’s living there, she starts to have eerie versions and starts hearing cries from places she doesn’t know are coming from.
Based on the novel from Adam Nevill, this movie has some seriously chilling parts, with a real story in between, that keeps you entertained thoroughly.
If anything, this film has taught me that I really might want to read this book as I am an avid reader as well.
The little hidden treasures in this film really play to your love of the main character, Ambar. Someone who is just trying to make it in another world that she has no idea what has in store for her. I did not think I was gonna like this picture as much as I did, and I think that’s what makes some of the better ones I’ve seen.
I will definitely watch this one again, just for the context alone. I love the deep meanings throughout and I love what the Director has done with this film.
Definitely recommend watching this in the dark under some covers as this is a movie you want to experience at night.
Director: Santiago Menghini
Cinematography: Stephen Murphy
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