Archive - Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Aces of Weird: The Hotel (Daisy Johnson, 2024)

Checking into a labyrinth of cosmic horror

Jun 26 •

May 2025

28 Days Later (2002) vs. 28 Weeks Later (2007)

The first two in the ‘28’ trilogy predicted the future and made ‘zombies’ scary again. But the movies’ terrors are more subtle than you think

May 19 •

April 2025

Aces of Weird: House (Josh Simmons, 2007)

How the wordless graphic novel by Josh Simmons finds both chills and beauty in liminal horror

Apr 24 •

March 2025

Who Goes There? (1938) vs The Thing (1982)

John W. Campbell's classic novella of Golden Age science fiction and John Carpenter's modern horror masterpiece - both absorb new meanings in the age of…

Mar 26 •

February 2025

Aces of Weird: Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1992)

How del Toro’s vampiric debut is the key to his movie career

Feb 20 •

January 2025

Fantastic Beasts and How to Write Them

Some Jurassic examples of great monster-writing

Jan 28 •

December 2024

Aces of Weird: The Green Knight (David Lowery, 2021)

This hallucinatory yuletide fantasy baffled audiences on release, yet remains one of the greatest films in Arthurian cinema. And, yes, it’s a Christmas…

Dec 13, 2024 •

November 2024

Aces of Weird: Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978)

Remembered as the kids' movie that terrified a generation, this classic British fantasy still casts a deep, dark and enthralling spell

Nov 11, 2024 •

October 2024

What Hawk the Slayer Got Right

Defending a sword and sorcery kinda-classic

Oct 25, 2024 •

September 2024

Science Fiction Double Feature: The Crow (comic book vs. movie)

The 1989 comic by James O'Barr and the 1994 movie starring Brandon Lee share the same melancholy heart, though it beats in very different ways

Sep 18, 2024 •

August 2024

Aces of Weird: Starve Acre (Andrew Michael Hurley, 2019)

This bleak and atmospheric folk horror novel unearths new horrors in old haunts

Aug 20, 2024 •

Science Fiction Double Feature: Planet of the Vampires (1965), It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)

Did these drive-in classics really inspire the 'Alien' franchise?

Aug 1, 2024 •

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