My niche is fairly small. I lean towards weird/bizarro fiction with sci-fi and horror elements. Something like a John Dies at the End or R.A. Lafferty story.

That tracks with what I'm seeing. It looks like nonfiction does best on Substack.

How do you like the platform?

Thank you. I’ll look into these. Substacks has been on my radar for some time but looked to be a nonfiction only site. I guess I need to dig a little deeper into the rabbit hole!

#writersofbluesky,#writersky, any tips? I’m not really a fantasy or litrpg kind of guy.

Unwelcome is a fun, tiny terror home invasion flick with little goofy puppets. The film takes its faerie lore seriously despite how silly the Redcaps can be–until they start murdering people. Unwelcome is right up your alley if you want a funny, dark fantasy picture.

Fukuda’s formula works. He’s perfected these elements since Ebirah, Horror of the Deep(Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster). But it was Godzilla vs. Gigan that it all came together, and MechaGodzilla is the formula mastered.

Both films are available in a gorgeous Criterion set. I urge you to pick it up.

This is director Jun Fukuda’s fifth Godzilla film, and he’s firing on all cylinders. The guy sure knows how to make a Kaiju flick. The human storyline is your typical spy thriller with evil aliens, an inventor, and his invention–the only thing that can stop the baddies.

Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla starts strong and rides that high until the climactic final battle where Godzilla teams up with King Ceasar to take down MechaGodzilla who is a walking missile silo. The special effects animators were working overtime on this one. There are a lot of lasers.

Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla
A psychic priestess has a vision of a monster destroying Japan, an artifact with an ancient prophecy is discovered, and Godzilla appears from Mount Fuji and starts wrecking everyone’s shit. He even beats up his best friend, Anguirus. The hell, man?

Gigan looks fantastic, and Toho brought King Ghidorah and Anguirus back to round out the cast of monsters. The fight between Godzilla and Ghidorah mostly reuses footage from Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, switching between day and night. Mid fight. It’s a little annoying.

Released on March 12th, 1993, the picture is more of a drama, if anything else. The movie plays like a true-crime re-enactment–an incredibly well-acted one—so I’m reluctant to call it a science fiction or horror flick, though it does have elements. If you love spooky “true story” pictures, watch it.

Based on Travis Walton's abduction, detailed in his book The Walton Experience, the film focuses on Travis, his friends, and his family as they deal with the traumatic event. There's little alien action, but when the film shows the abduction, it revels in the horror.

The movies differ from their book counterparts. The boogens in the novel are a spider-like monster, while The Pit implies Teddy is real and possibly some horny lovecraftian monster.

Both movies are available from @kinolorber, and Teddy, the novelization of The Pit, is on the Internet Archive.