Media Log /2021
Key: (B) = book | (F) = film | (SF) = short film | (T) = television series | (P) = podcast series | (S) = screenplay | (C) = comic book/graphic novel | (TH) = theater performance | (M) = musical performance |[R] = reread/rewatch/relisten
- January
- 2
- Games (F)
- Host (F)
- The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Jennifer Lynch (B)
- 3
- The Leftovers, Season 1 (T)
- Let Them All Talk (F)
- 4
- The Friggin Best (SF)
- The Nest (F)
- 5
- The Pale Door (F)
- Mayhem (F)
- Claws, Season 3 (T)
- The Blair Witch Project (F)
- A Hell of a Woman, Jim Thompson (B)
- 8
- Dirty John, Season 1 (T)
- 9
- I'm No Angel (F)
- The House Next Door, Anne Rivers Siddons (B)
- Mabel, Season 1 (P)
- Effie Gray (F)
- 10
- The Blue Dahlia (F) [R]
- 11
- Dare Me, Season 1 (T)
- Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep (SF)
- Lola, 15 (SF)
- After Hours (F)
- 12
- Once Upon a Time in the Valley, Season 1 (P)
- Baby Doll (F)
- 13
- Night Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer (T)
- 14
- Walk on the Wild Side (F)
- 15
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (F) [R]
- The Blood on Satan's Claw (F)
- 16
- Never Let Go (F)
- The Haunting (F) [R]
- 17
- The Razor's Edge (F)
- Another Round (F)
- The Chase (1946) (F)
- Some of Your Blood, Theodore Sturgeon (B)
- 18
- The Seventh Veil (F)
- The Leftovers, Season 2 (T)
- How Awful About Allan (F)
- Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl (F)
- 20
- The Rhythm Section (F)
- 21
- The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware (B)
- Martha Marcy May Marlene (F)
- 22
- Slumber Party Massacre II (F)
- 27
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (F) [R]
- 30
- Village of the Damned (F)
- The Bad Seed (1956) (F)
- February
- 1
- Crystal Lake (SF)
- 2
- All Small Bodies (SF)
- Dark Rooms, Lili Anolik (B)
- 3
- Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen, Steven D. Katz (B)
- A Million Miles Away (SF)
- 4
- Seven Songs About Thunder (SF)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (F) [R]
- 5
- Princess Mononoke (F)
- 6
- Black Angel (F)
- Peeping Tom (F)
- The Cat and the Canary (F)
- Spinal Tap (F) [R]
- 7
- Green (F)
- The Wind (F)
- The Wild Bunch, by Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah (S)
- 8
- And I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You Down (SF)
- 9
- One Bad Night (SF)
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë (B)
- 10
- Blood Below the Skin (SF)
- 11
- Shuvit (SF)
- 13
- The House of Usher (F) [R]
- Crimson Peak (F) [R]
- 14
- The Hallow (F)
- The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (F)
- 18
- Mad Max: Fury Road (F) [R]
- 19
- Saint Coltrane: The Church Built On 'A Love Supreme' (SF)
- 20
- Danse Macabre, Stephen King (B)
- The Thing From Another World (F)
- A Dark Song (F)
- 21
- The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (F)
- Oculus, Mike Flanagan (S)
- A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow (SF)
- Dark Black, Sam Weller (B)
- 23
- Oleander (SF)
- 25
- Laura's Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks, Courtenay Stallings (B)
- 27
- The Sleeping Beauty (F)
- The Wailing (F) [R]
- Dementia 13 (F)
- March
- 1
- Little Chief (SF)
- 3
- Connections (SF)
- 4
- Lonely Laura and Her Sister Niamh (SF)
- Headlong: Surviving Y2K (P)
- 5
- The Blue Gardenia (F)
- 6
- Wild at Heart (F)
- 7
- WandaVision, Season 1 (T)
- 8
- Box Fort (SF)
- 10
- Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults (T)
- 11
- Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (T)
- 14
- Cracks (F) [R]
- Death Line (F)
- Ghost Story, Peter Straub (B)
- 17
- The Fugitive (F) [R]
- 18
- The Crazies (F)
- 20
- Images (F)
- A New Leaf (F)
- The Last Blockbuster (F)
- 21
- End of Days (P)
- Super Dark Times (F)
- Lake Mungo (F) [R]
- 22
- The Gateway: Teal Swan (P)
- 26
- 'Salem's Lot, Stephen King (B)
- 27
- John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise (T)
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape (F)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (F)
- 28
- Puffball (F)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (F) [R]
- 30
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (B)
- The Opportunist, Season 1 (P)
- April
- 1
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King (B)
- Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen (P)
- 2
- Lucky (F)
- In Search of Darkness: A Journey Into Iconic ’80s Horror (F)
- 3
- The Swerve (F)
- Any Number Can Play (F)
- 4
- What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice (F)
- Cast a Dark Shadow (F)
- My Dinner with Andre (F)
- 5
- mother! (F)
- 6
- Anne's House of Dreams, L.M. Montgomery (B) [R]
- 7
- Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You): A How-to Guide from the First Family of Podcasting, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy and Griffin McElroy (B)
- Piranha (F)
- 10
- The Howling (F)
- 11
- Die Die My Darling (F)
- 17
- Persona (F)
- I Hate Suzie, Season 1 (T)
- 18
- Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (F)
- Unfaithfully Yours (F)
- 19
- Jennifer (F)
- 20
- Ted Lasso, Season 1 (T)
- 23
- The 'Burbs (F)
- Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet (T)
- Mythic Quest: Quarantine (T)
- Mythic Quest: Everlight (T)
- 24
- The Fly (1986) (F)
- Dark City (1950) (F) [R]
- The Gambler (1974) (F)
- The Mummy (1999) (F) [R]
- 25
- Croupier (F)
- The Black Tapes, Season 1 (P)
- 26
- Touch (SF)
- 27
- Together (SF)
- The Black Tapes, Season 2 (P)
- Rutherford Falls, Season 1 (T)
- 28
- Ice, Anna Kavan (B)
- The Ultimate (By Lou Fescano) (SF)
- 29
- Wild (SF)
- Anne of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery (B) [R]
- May
- 1
- In Search of Darkness: Part II (F)
- Cursed Films, Season 1 (T)
- The Canal (F)
- The Black Tapes, Season 3 (P)
- 2
- No Man of Her Own (F)
- 3
- One by One, Ruth Ware (B)
- 4
- The Last Movie, Season 1 & Season 2 (P)
- 6
- The Boy, Stacey Menear (S)
- 7
- The Mummy Returns (F)
- 8
- Night of the Demon (F)
- 13 Ghosts (F)
- 9
- Prescription: Murder (F) [R]
- The Grifters, Jim Thompson (B)
- 10
- Ransom for a Dead Man (F) [R]
- 11
- Tanis, Season 1 (P)
- 14
- Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction, Benjamin Percy (B)
- Girls5eva, Season 1 (T)
- 15
- Night Watch (F)
- The Mephisto Waltz (F)
- Easy Living (F)
- A Night at the Opera (F) [R]
- Nothing More than Murder, Jim Thompson (B)
- 16
- Matinee (F)
- Tanis, Season 2 (P)
- 17
- The Women (SF)
- 18
- Goodnight Darling (SF)
- 21
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert (B) [R]
- 22
- Dawn of the Dead (1978) (F)
- Tanis, Season 3 (P)
- 23
- Tanis, Season 4 (P)
- The Hot Rock (F)
- California Split (F)
- 24
- Inland Empire (SF)
- 25
- Summer of Fear (F)
- 26
- Super Dark Times, Ben Collins (S)
- The Only Thing I Love More Than You Is Ranch Dressing (SF)
- Dead Dad (SF)
- Meat Eater (SF)
- Hit (SF)
- Paul's Bad Day (SF)
- The Plumber (SF)
- 27
- Misery, Stephen King (B)
- 28
- Tanis, Season 5 (P)
- 29
- Heavenly Creatures (F)
- Witchfinder General (F)
- 30
- The Anniversary (F)
- Cropper's Cabin, Jim Thompson (B)
- 31
- The Killing Kind (F)
- Corman's World (F)
- June
- 1
- Rabbits, Season 1 (P)
- Cooties (SF)
- 5
- Angel Heart (F)
- Mare of Easttown, Season 1 (T)
- 6
- Matinee (F) [R]
- The Tingler (F)
- 9
- The Amusement Park (F)
- Burn, Witch, Burn (F)
- 10
- Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art, Lewis Hyde (B)
- You Must Remember This: Polly Platt, the Invisible Woman (P)
- Hacks, Season 1 (T)
- 12
- Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (F)
- 13
- Topsy-Turvy (F)
- 14
- The Golden Gizmo, Jim Thompson (B)
- 15
- And Then (SF)
- 16
- Green (SF)
- Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story (T)
- 19
- Multiple Maniacs (F)
- 20
- Knives Out (F) [R]
- 21
- Beetlejuice (F) [R]
- 22
- The Banishing (F)
- 23
- The Driller Killer (F)
- Born in Flames (F)
- 26
- The Las Vegas Story (F)
- Housebound (F)
- Pieces (F)
- Rat Phink a Boo Boo (F)
- 27
- Burnt Offerings (F)
- 28
- Shiva Baby (F)
- 29
- The Routine (SF)
- The Celluloid Closet (F)
- Pink Flamingos (F)
- July
- 2
- Zola (F)
- 3
- Manhunter (F)
- Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (F)
- 4
- No Sudden Move (F)
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (B)
- 5
- Wisconsin Death Trip (F)
- Female Trouble (F)
- I Am Divine (F)
- 6
- Body Double (F)
- 7
- Fear Street Part One: 1994 (F)
- Night Moves (F)
- 8
- Psycho II (F)
- 9
- Black Widow (F)
- First Person Singular: Stories, Haruki Murakami (B)
- 10
- Dead Ringer (F)
- Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (F)
- The Revolt of Mamie Stover (F)
- Blow Out (F)
- 11
- Creepshow (F)
- Dickinson, Season 1 (T)
- 12
- You Must Remember This: Gossip Girls (P)
- 14
- Loki, Season 1 (T)
- Gunpowder Milkshake (F)
- 15
- Grip (SF)
- The Opportunist, Season 2 (P)
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle (F)
- 16
- Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (F)
- Dickinson, Season 2 (T)
- A Nightmare Wakes (F)
- 17
- The Onion Field (F)
- Crash (F)
- 18
- 28 Days Later, Alex Garland (S)
- Cutter's Way (F)
- 19
- The Left Right Game, Season 1 (P)
- Bad Girls Go to Hell (F)
- The Hit (F)
- 20
- Nancy Drew, Season 1 (T)
- Berserk (F)
- 21
- I Spit on Your Grave (1978) (F)
- Starry Eyes (F)
- 23
- Psychomania (F)
- 24
- Spiral (F)
- Pig (F)
- 27
- Do You Know Mordechai?, Season 1 (P)
- Across 100th Street (F)
- Horror Express (F)
- 28
- Nancy Drew, Season 2 (T)
- Caveat (F)
- The Flesh and the Fiends (F)
- Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury (B)
- 30
- The Beast Must Die (F)
- 31
- Kevin Can F*ck Himself, Season 1 (T)
- The Green Knight (F)
- August
- 1
- The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, Dinty W. Moore (B)
- Key Largo (F)
- 2
- Dead Mall (SF)
- The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane, Matthew Hutson (B)
- 3
- The Grifters (F)
- 4
- White Girl (SF)
- Dolls (F)
- I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, Seasons 1 & 2 (T)
- 5
- Dracula's Daughter (F)
- Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils (F)
- 6
- Crawl, Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen (S)
- Streets of Fire (F)
- Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (F)
- A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers (B)
- 7
- The Conversation (F)
- 8
- The Warriors (F)
- Black Roses (F)
- 9
- Wellington Paranormal, Season 1 (T)
- 12
- Vicious Fun (F)
- Slaxx (F)
- 13
- Trouble in Mind (F)
- 14
- La Piscine (F)
- Wishmaster (F)
- 16
- The White Lotus, Season 1 (T)
- The Suicide Squad (F)
- 21
- Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (B)
- 23
- The Attic Tradegy, J. Ashley-Smith (B)
- 26
- Night of the Mannequins, Stephen Graham Jones (B)
- 29
- The Turnout, Megan Abbott (B)
- September
- 3
- The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (B)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (F)
- 4
- Jakob's Wife (F)
- Verotika (F)
- Polyester (F)
- 8
- Brand New Cherry Flavor, Season 1 (T)
- 9
- A Corner in Wheat (SF)
- Greed (F)
- 12
- Saturn's Return to New York, Sara Gran (B)
- Candyman (2019) (F)
- 17
- Die a Little, Megan Abbott (B) [R]
- 18
- One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers, Gail Sher (B)
- 20
- This Is John (SF)
- 25
- Nine Perfect Strangers, Season 1 (T)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (F) [R]
- 26
- Wellington Paranormal, Season 2 (T)
- 29
- The Song Is You, Megan Abbott (B) [R]
- October
- 1
- A Dirty Shame (F)
- 2
- Poltergeist (F) [R]
- 3
- Friday the 13th (F) [R]
- 4
- Halloween (F) [R]
- 7
- Dream Girl, Laura Lippman (B)
- 8
- Muppets Haunted Mansion (F)
- 9
- The Magnus Archives, Season 1 (P)
- 10
- Scream (F) [R]
- House on Haunted Hill (F) [R]
- 12
- Squid Game, Season 1 (T)
- 17
- Billy Summers, Stephen King (B)
- 19
- House (F) [R]
- 22
- Dune (2021) (F)
- Knives Out (F) [R]
- 23
- Ted Lasso, Season 2 (T)
- Only Murders in the Building, Season 1 (T)
- 24
- The Last Final Girl, Stephen Graham Jones (B)
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (F)
- V/H/S 94 (F)
- Motel Hell (F)
- 25
- The Opportunist, Season 3 (P)
- 26
- The Elvis Room (SF)
- 27
- Murder in Alliance (P)
- 28
- Midnight Mass, Season 1 (T)
- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins (B)
- 29
- Things Heard and Seen (F)
- Catcalls (SF)
- Black as Night (F)
- What We Do in the Shadows, Season 3 (T)
- 30
- The Manor (F)
- The Addiction (F)
- Habit (F)
- The Medium (F)
- 31
- The Silent Partner (F)
- November
- 2
- Bridgewater, Season 1 (P)
- 6
- Black Widow (1954) (F)
- Experimental Film, Gemma Files (B)
- 6
- Pickup on South Street (F)
- To Die For (F)
- Last Night in Soho (F)
- 10
- Daughters of Witches (SF)
- 11
- Caprice (SF)
- The Addams Family (F) [R]
- 12
- Addams Family Values (F) [R]
- 13
- Niagara (F)
- 10 Rillington Place (F)
- Nude on the Moon (F)
- The Stepfather (F)
- 14
- Where the Sidewalk Ends (F)
- Jungle Cruise (F)
- 20
- Night and the City (F)
- Possession (F)
- The Magnus Archives, Season 2 (P)
- 21
- Somewhere in the Night (F)
- Repulsion (F) [R]
- The Rocker (F)
- 22
- If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit, Brenda Ueland (B)
- Hell House, Richard Matheson (B)
- The Lego Batman Movie (F) [R]
- 25
- Batman (1989) (F) [R]
- 26
- The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix (B)
- Ghost Story (F)
- I Wake Up Screaming (F)
- 28
- Dark City (F) [R]
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie (B)
- Batman Returns (F) [R]
- 30
- The Graveyard Apartment, Mariko Koike (B)
- December
- 1
- House of Wax (1953) (F)
- 2
- The Box in the Woods, Maureen Johnson (B)
- 3
- Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress, Season 1 (P)
- 4
- Witchboard (F)
- Satan's Slave (F)
- The Evil (F)
- 5
- Hangover Square (F)
- Scrooged (F) [R]
- 7
- Welcome to Your Fantasy, Season 1 (P)
- 11
- Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (F)
- Clue (F) [R]
- 12
- The Fly (1958) (F)
- Switchblade Sisters (F)
- 14
- The Great, Season 2 (T)
- 15
- Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, Carol J. Clover (B)
- Succession, Season 1 (T)
- 17
- My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (B)
- 18
- The Bat (F)
- Demons (F)
- Malignant (F)
- 19
- Nightmare Alley (1947) (F) [R]
- A Bay of Blood (F)
- Succession, Season 2 (T)
- 20
- The Trip to Greece (F)
- Catwoman, Vol. 1: Copycats (C)
- 21
- The Fast and the Furious (F)
- Succession, Season 3 (T)
- 22
- The Final Member (F)
- Saint Maud (F)
- Censor (F)
- Belgravia, Season 1 (T)
- The Stylist (F)
- 23
- Seance (F)
- The Power (F)
- Drive My Car (F)
- The Witcher, Season 2 (T)
- 24
- Angel Face (F)
- Thunder Road (F)
- Dickinson, Season 3 (T)
- Come True (F)
- Licorice Pizza (F)
- 25
- Nightmare Alley (2021) (F)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night (F)
- 26
- Cape Fear (1962) (F)
- Bleed with Me (F)
- The Night House (F)
- Jessica Jones: Alias, Vol. 1 (C)
- 27
- My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To (F)
- Wild Things (F)
- Catwoman, Vol. 2: Far From Gotham (C)
- 28
- Lamb (F)
- The Power of the Dog (F)
- 29
- Dead Alive (F)
- Titane (F)
- 30
- Bloodthirsty (F)
- Game of Thrones, Season 3 (T)
- Catwoman, Vol. 4: Come Home, Alley Cat (C)
- 31
- Undine (F)
- Multiple Months
- 2021
- Ongoing podcasts without finite series: The Flop House, My Brother, My Brother and Me, Switchblade Sisters, Criminal Broads, PseudoPod, Radio Rental, Dark Air with Terry Carnation.