Hortulus silvaticus. A little wild garden. A place for me (Ↄ. Martiana) to talk about popular culture. Mostly just to organize my thoughts....
I just finished watching Night of the Living Deb (2015), a “zom-rom-com” that is not very funny but very 2015 — the sense of humor reminded me a lot of You’re the Worst (2014). I can’t really recommend the film, but it is worth mentioning as an example of a pattern in zombie movies: it’s almost exclusively horror comedies that actually use the word “zombie” in their dialogue, and the characters’…
After I was severely disappointed with Stephen King’s Never Flinch (2025), the most recent Holly Gibney novel (badly written, racist, sexist, transphobic), I have recently been rereading his previous books about her, which had had not stuck very well in my memory. Holly was originally a secondary character in the Bill Hodges trilogy, which began as straight crime fiction and then veered into the…