Lord Samper's Library

Sorry for the 'blogging silence' over the last couple of days. I completely ran out of steam so had to take a little time out to, erm... 're-steam'? I know what I mean, I was mostly reading ;o) Anyway... I've got plans for a lot more reading over the weekend (me, the comfy chair and 'Ashes of the Imperium' for a start) so I thought I'd leave you with a cool looking trailer in the meantime. I watched 'In A Violent Nature', back in 2024, and said that I'd be back for a sequel . Having watched the trailer just now... Yep, I'll definitely be watching it.

I’ve been more about the books just recently but at the same time, the flat has been a little quiet as well so in the evenings, I’ve had a few movies playing, just for a bit of background noise (and also to drown out the singing from the pub over the road…) The movies weren’t brilliant but that’s ok; I wasn’t after ‘brilliant’, just something to occupy my eyes when I wasn’t reading ;o) Even so, I still managed to find a movie that I really shouldn’t have bothered with. Lets start with that one first… ‘Evilution’ (2008) When an alien life form resurrects the dead and turns them on the human race, a young scientist must fight to contain the catastrophe and eradicate the alien menace. One of those films where I wish I’d paid a little more attention, just so I knew what was going on, but at the same time, it was so dull that my attention kept sliding. That will teach me for insisting on watching every single zombie movie I find… :o) All I’ll say is… If the young scientist really wanted to ...

  Page Count: 192 Pages Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan. Whether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past until her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning. Long time readers of this blog have probably worked out, by now, that while I don’t mind a little gothic fiction (every now and then), you will likely never find a books featuring Victorian governesses in my TBR pile. Until now that is :o) When a title and blurb like this ap...

The last week has been a heavy one so I took advantage of the 'Shudder' subscription (yep, it's a subscription now, the free trial ended) to switch off a little and watch some horror. Let me tell you about it. 'The Horde' (2009) A police raid on a derelict Paris tower block goes wrong in the worst possible way... Now, not only are the police being held hostage, there are zombies outside the flat and it doesn't look too good for the rest of Paris either. Drug dealers and police must work together if anyone is going to survive... I'm cheating a little bit here as this was a rewatch (not for a long time though), but it's on 'Shudder' and at the time, I was after something that I knew I'd enjoy and... 'The Horde' is still a great movie with some interesting things to say and just constant non-stop zombie action along the way. I couldn't ask for a lot more than that really, it was just what I needed and I won't leave it too long be...

I haven’t been good for a lot, these last few days, (work and so on) so have spent the last couple of evenings crashed out in front of the TV, trying to find something decent to watch. Okay, you’ll see in a second that I wasn’t too fussy about finding something decent… ;o) Quick thoughts on four movies then. One brilliant, one ‘not bad’ and the other two… Lets just say that they weren’t great (fun but...) I really will watch anything sometimes :o) ‘ Saint Maud’ (2019) A pious nurse becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient but is it her own soul that is in true peril? I’m not entirely sure what led me to watch ‘Saint Maud’ but I’m really glad that I did. It’s beautifully shot, Morfydd Clark is excellent in the title role and just when you think you know what’s going on, ‘Saint Maud’ delights in pulling the rug from under you and sending you in a different direction entirely. I’m thinking about certain bits of the movie and trying to puzzle out what real...

My eldest daughter swears by these books and seeing as I taught her everything she knows, I trust her ;o) And the trailer looks pretty good as it happens... 'Clown in a Cornfield' is out in May this year and by happy coincidence, not too far away from my eldest daughters birthday :o)

The good thing about living in a flat dotted with little piles of books is that no matter what I want to read, I stand a very good chance of being able to reach out a hand and grab it. Actually, please help me, my flat belongs to the books now... ;o) But anyway. I was after some horror in my reading, and the more horrifying the better, so I reached out and the book that came to hand was 'Don't Go To Wheelchair Camp'; a book that I knew very little about other than that the title and cover art had pretty much hooked me in and the book cost me a tenner so I ought to give it a go really. (Note: There are more of this kind of book in my flat than is healthy...) So that's exactly what I did and here I am to say... You know what I'm going to say ;o) Don't go to Wheelchair Camp... Actually, do go to Wheelchair Camp ;o) After a horrible accident that kills her sister, ten-year-old Terri Wilcox has to live her life in a wheelchair. She becomes a burden for her passive ...

Well, this week hasn't been the best for finishing books (although I am reading 'Clickers Never Die' and it is bloody brilliant, more on that another time though...) but I haven't done too badly as far as finishing TV shows goes. Look, in an ideal world I'd be making a dent in the TBR pile but this is not an ideal world, not this week, so I'll take what I can get in the meantime... ;o) I've finally finished 'Slasher: Guilty Party' and 'Moon Knight' as well. Now, I've finally watched every season of 'Slasher', with 'Solstice' finally in the bag :o) I'm notoriously late to these shows so I'm fairly certain that you've probably seen 'Slasher' already but if you haven't then you really should (I'm not going to go into the whys, you can just read my 'Slasher' posts over Here ). And with that said, lets take a look at 'Slasher: Solstice'... Kit Jennings, a   sex  and  drug addict...

Sorry for the sudden silence, on the blog, over the last couple of days... It was my eldest daughter's birthday and her birthday somehow managed to become an entire birthday weekend (we've all done it)... The upshot was that I didn't even have time to pick up a book, let alone get anything read ;o) I'll tell you what I did do though. When I finally made it home each night, I tried to catch up on some of the TV that I've been meaning to watch. And I did :o) Well, with one series anyway... I don't have Netflix (and won't either) so my journey through the 'Slasher' series has been conducted completely out of order so far). You can read my thoughts on Season 4 ('Flesh and Blood') over Here and Season 1 ('The Executioner') over Here . Read them? Brilliant ;o) I enjoyed both seasons so much that I ended up going out and buying the box set and that has led me to Season 2, 'Guilty Party'. You're only getting quick thoughts on thi...

This is probably going to be a shorter post than normal as my work laptop died yesterday and now I’m trying to fit two days’ worth of work into today… I am beginning to really hate this week, it’s a good job that I’ve got a few days off next week 😊 But anyway… I had the best time watching ‘Slasher: Flesh and Blood' (have a click Here for my thoughts on the matter) so it was a pretty much foregone conclusion that I’d be searching out the rest of the series to get all caught up with. Unfortunately for me, I don’t have Netflix (and probably won’t bother with it, to be honest) so had to go down the ‘old school’ route of searching out the DVDs instead. Luckily for me, Season 1 ('The Executioner') wasn’t hard to find at all… Sarah Bennett and her husband Dylan move back to the town of her birth, fictitious Waterbury, Canada,  into her childhood home, where both of her parents were murdered on the Halloween of 1988. Her mother was pregnant with Sarah at the time of the killi...

Shudder and Youtube seem to have this agreement between them whereby Youtube bombards me with adverts, for stuff on Shudder, until I just give up and say, 'You know what? I'll just watch the damn show...' To be fair, it usually works out pretty well so I shouldn't complain. The last few weeks, I haven't been able to turn round on Youtube without tripping over an advert for 'Slasher: Flesh and Blood' and in the end, I thought I may as well give it a go, just to see who won the competition the old man kept going on about... And it was brilliant, to the point where I've just spent the last week waiting for the final episodes so I could see if all my theories were correct. Let me tell you all about it. The Galloway family have returned to their island home where Spencer Galloway is about to revive the old tradition of a particularly brutal family competition. The stakes are higher than ever this time though; this time round, the family are playing for nothin...