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The Goat’s Head (Book Review)
The book “The Goat’s Head,” written by Lex Sinclair, is an eerie book that dives into the scary world of demons and witchery. The book has a haunting plotline based upon terrifying things happening to a completely innocent person, making it a satisfying read for those who enjoy horror type fiction stories.
The novel is about a twenty-two year old girl named Sofie Lackberg. A stunning young women and brilliant law student, Sophie is of Swedish origin and resides in the United Kingdom. In the beginning of the story, the naïve girl is trying to find a way to earn some spare cash and comes across a flyer advertising a small job taking care of the elderly. She phones the lady who posted the flyer, a wealthy woman named Margaret with ailing parents that she needs someone to help care for on a particular evening. After hearing that the job pays 150 British Pounds, Sofie accepts to work for her. However, upon arriving at a gothic style home with a demon statue out front, she quickly regrets her decision. Over the course of the night that she must stay there with the elderly couple, a number of frightening experiences happen to her, including being spied on through a hole while bathing and having the elderly people read her mind. She ends up encountering danger after hitting her head, being surrounded by chanting individuals in cloaks, and the evil story continues from there.
The book is well written and Sinclair has an intriguing style of writing that makes the story not only easy to follow but engaging. The pace of the book is fast in some parts and slows down in others, making it a perfect book for casual reading. Sinclair does an excellent job of using a perfect balance of dialogue between the characters and descriptive text to really set each scene and help the reader visualize the setting. Also, he does an excellent job of developing the characters in a way that makes them feel realistic. While reading the book, it is hard to not feel terrified and upset over what is happening to Sofie because she is made out to sound like such a normal girl with terrible misfortune.
However, the book also has room to improve. There are a number of obvious grammar and spelling mistakes sprinkled throughout the book which can throw off the reader and damage the flow of the book. The small errors ultimately end up acting as a distraction from the content, making it a bit harder for the reader to lose themself in the book than it would be if there were no mistakes. The writing is all excellent from a content standpoint, but it would be valuable for this book to go through one final round of post-editing.
Overall, “The Goat’s Head,” written by Lex Sinclair, is an excellent book that tells an unnerving tale of a young and ambitious girl whose plan to get ahead in life goes horribly wrong when she accepts a job offer that proves incredibly dangerous. It is an exciting book that explores the petrifying world of demons and witchery, tossing readers into unfamiliar territory and leaving them there to experience fright alongside the book’s main character, Sofie. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys horror, or even fantasy, fiction stories.
Reviewed by Damnetha Jules
Damnetha is a staff writer, horror book and movie critic.
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See No Evil 2: 2014 Release
See No Evil 1
The 2006 movie See No Evil could easily have been awful. WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) making a horror movie? But they have their act(s) together with WWE Films division along with WWE wrestling superstar Kane managing to make a truly gory, jumpy and average rated horror movie.
The movie saw a bunch of delinquent youths being force to spend a weekend in an old busted up hotel. They were sent there for community service work and needed to clean the place up. One of the chaperones is former police officer, Frank Williams (Steve Vidler) who quite the police force years earlier after investigating a horrific crime scene that saw him have his arm cut off by this monstrous brute of a man. A man he had shot in the head, but did not die!
Unfortunately for the kids and their chaperones, is the presence of a man called Jacob Goodnight who has made this place his home. He is a messed up due to the horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of his own mother. He kind of sees the sin in people and as he is messed up, resorts to killing people in brutal ways. Jacob Goodnight is played by WWE wrestler Kane. Kane is a monster of a man standing near seven feet tall and almost as wide. So he makes a very menacing presence on the screen and all without the aid of a padded suit or anything like that. When he is on-screen with one of the kids you really do think that he could rip them apart at any given moment.
The kids learn fairly quickly that they are not alone in this hotel and soon instead of trying to clean the place up they are fighting for their lives when Jacob Goodnight starts to stalk them through the hotel one by one. In all See No Evil was a really fun horror movie that really deserved more credit than it got.
See No Evil 2
See No Evil 2 picks up with Jacob Goodnight believed to be dead and his body taken to a local morgue. There are a group of medical students in this morgue who find themselves locked in. Making matters worse, it turns out that Jacob Goodnight is back from the dead! Now he has a whole new group of victims to taunt!
See No Evil 2 appears to be a good horror follow-up to the first movie. The Soska Sisters who gave us the cult classic Dead Hooker In A Trunk are behind this movie, so it will likely be even more gory and messy than the original.
See No Evil 2 will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray later in 2014 as of right now it does not have a definitive release date.
See No Evil 1
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Zombie Finger Licking Good
An eerie silence lies
In a dismal and dark graveyard
There lies a grisly and scary zombie
Who feast on human fingers and hands
Acting evil was his game
Only ate fingers that were yummy
Zombie worked best during a thick fog
Searched for victims who would jog
Threw them right into an abandoned van
To cause great distress and sorrow was his plan
Skulls are split and finger devoured
The Zombie’s voice echoed
Come to me, little mortal
I will bring you to heaven’s portal
There will be no pain and no sorrow
Feelings of happiness will follow
Come to me, sweet human thing
Give me your lovely hands and I will make it sing
Forget your fears
Forget your troubles
Forget your blood curdling screams
For your fingers are finger licking good
Hold very still and do not scream
There is no use putting up a fight
I will take your yummy blood and leave you dying
Do you think I could be lying?
Pyscho Butcher Babe
The Pyscho Butcher Babe is another example of brutality and ruthlessness. The horrific and dreadful appearance of this woman can even scare people with very strong wills.
Her horrible intentions behind this wicked snarl make it more frightening. What a bloody mess she has created.