Sense of Dread

BRIGHTBURN  was directed by David Yarovesky and stars Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn and asks the question...what if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he couldn't accept that truth, and was sent here to take over our planet, enslaving mankind, and become a God-like being? Basically, think Superman but without morals or a conscience. I was able to catch this movie on a Thursday night viewing ahead of the Friday premiere, and I gotta say, it really did scratch that itch for me. But let's get right down to the bits and pieces of the film itself... The movie has a very interesting concept that those outside of the comic book community would never even know has existed for...I don't know...forever? I mean, it's something I've always wanted to see in a live action setting that I never got to see in this scope before. So does the movie pull it off? Sometimes, it does. There were moments in the ...

We’ve all heard the tale of a spirit or monster that would take children away when they were being bad, naughty, or not listening to their parents. Lots of cultures have their own versions, with their own takes on what the creature does to those bad kids. It comes it many shapes, many forms, and appears in many places. But what I’m about to tell you, is not folklore, it’s not myth, and it sure as shit isn’t make believe. This is a true story…something that happened to my brother and I when we were very little, and something that plagued me well into my teenage years. Even now, as an adult, I can no longer go into the home where I first encountered it. Just writing this makes me think that the creature, or whatever the hell it is, is about to pop up and grab me. Maybe I should just…start at the beginning. Like all my messed up encounters, this starts when I was very young, maybe around 5 or 6 years of age. I grew up in Montreal, Canada, living on the same street as my grandparents...