Daniel Robichaud
@danielrobichaud.bsky.social
Reader, scientist, essay writer, fictioneer, poet, movie watcher, hubby, fadda.
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Two corporate spies use a honey pot tactic to extract a brilliant scientist in a near future thriller. What could go wrong? Everything. Abel Ferrara’s NEW ROSE HOTEL is a potent character study. @cine-matographe.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/n...
I Steal People: New Rose Hotel (1998)
Fox (Christopher Walken) and X (Willem Dafoe) are a couple of freewheeling, freelancers interested in stealing people, that is encouraging corporate defectors through whatever means are necessary. …
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January 29, 2026 at 2:51 AM
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Two corporate spies use a honey pot tactic to extract a brilliant scientist in a near future thriller. What could go wrong? Everything. Abel Ferrara’s NEW ROSE HOTEL is a potent character study. @cine-matographe.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/n...
Eve Ronin’s attention is split between investigating a series of home invasions & the mystery of a dead infant as well as coping with a lawsuit and dealing with Hollywood challenges in #LeeGoldberg’s GATED PREY. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/e...
A False Sense of Security: Lee Goldberg’s Gated Prey
Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are undercover as a wealthy, somewhat clueless couple—an aging, overweight man of means and his younger, hawter, gold digging galpal—as the third entry in the Eve Ronin …
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January 28, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Eve Ronin’s attention is split between investigating a series of home invasions & the mystery of a dead infant as well as coping with a lawsuit and dealing with Hollywood challenges in #LeeGoldberg’s GATED PREY. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/e...
Australian soldiers prepare for battle in 1942, only to have their deployment interrupted by Japanese fighter pilots. The survivors on becalmed waters have more than starvation & thirst to fear. There’s a blood crazed shark … BEAST OF WAR @shudder.com consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/b...
This is Deep Water Now, and There’s Very Old Things Out Here: Beast of War (2025)
Leo (Mark Coles Smith) is part of the Australian army, trying to do his best to survive boot camp and see his way into war. And since it’s circa 1942, there’s plenty of war to see as the Allies are…
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January 27, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Australian soldiers prepare for battle in 1942, only to have their deployment interrupted by Japanese fighter pilots. The survivors on becalmed waters have more than starvation & thirst to fear. There’s a blood crazed shark … BEAST OF WAR @shudder.com consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/b...
My suspense story “Gretel’s Big Bad Wolf” (written under my C.C. Blake byline) is now available in a collection with two additional stories. All feature the Chuck Cave character in historical pulp suspense yarns. On sale for $0.99 this week only! consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/c...
Gretel’s Big Bad Wolf: Chuck Cave’s Burlesque Part 1
The latest short story appearing under my C.C. Blake pseudonym, “Gretel’s Big Bad Wolf,” is available for purchase. On this Self-Promotion Sunday, I invite you to take a look at the first entry in …
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January 27, 2026 at 1:49 AM
My suspense story “Gretel’s Big Bad Wolf” (written under my C.C. Blake byline) is now available in a collection with two additional stories. All feature the Chuck Cave character in historical pulp suspense yarns. On sale for $0.99 this week only! consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/c...
A man sentenced to death row must rely on a youthful but inexperienced lawyer to win his freedom. High stakes abound in #JamesFoley’s adaptation of #JohnGrisham’s legal thriller, THE CHAMBER. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/c...
Celebrating the Destruction of the Unwanted: The Chamber (1996)
When an explosion rips through the Indianola, Mississippi law offices of Marshall Kramer (Seth Isler) in 1967, it takes the lives of the lawyer’s two children, Josh (Sid Johnson) and John (Blake Jo…
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January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
A man sentenced to death row must rely on a youthful but inexperienced lawyer to win his freedom. High stakes abound in #JamesFoley’s adaptation of #JohnGrisham’s legal thriller, THE CHAMBER. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/c...
Middle grade detectives battle peculiar intrigues and doses of exaggerated humor in #JamesPatterson and #KeirGraff’s second MK Detective Club novel, THE DOUBLE TROUBLE PUZZLE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/d...
Miranda Keen Can’t Lose: James Patterson and Keir Graff’s The Double Trouble Puzzle
Miranda Keen’s life is coming apart at the seams. Her beloved Detective Club at Jane Byrne Middle School, has been invaded by new faces. One of these is a teacher advisor, which is okay since it’s …
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January 22, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Middle grade detectives battle peculiar intrigues and doses of exaggerated humor in #JamesPatterson and #KeirGraff’s second MK Detective Club novel, THE DOUBLE TROUBLE PUZZLE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/d...
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A detective on the trail of a serial murderer and sex offender is stalked in turn in #DarioArgento’s brutal giallo film, THE STENDAHL SYNDROME. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/s...
Feminine/Masculine: The Stendahl Syndrome (1996)
Anna Manni (Asia Argento) has come to Florence in search of a serial rapist and murderer. While there, she finds herself in a museum, where she is overwhelmed by the exhibited masterpieces. Soon en…
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January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A detective on the trail of a serial murderer and sex offender is stalked in turn in #DarioArgento’s brutal giallo film, THE STENDAHL SYNDROME. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/s...
A woman moves to the burbs and gets pulled into PTA duties only to discover a slasher has targeted the mean girls she works with in #LindyRyan’s DOLLFACE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/d...
Everyone Is a Suspect: Lindy Ryan’s Dollface
When the military moves Jill Marshall’s husband Rob from Texas to New Jersey, she and their son Tanner’s lives get uprooted as well. It’s the challenge of being married to a serviceman. This summer…
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January 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM
A woman moves to the burbs and gets pulled into PTA duties only to discover a slasher has targeted the mean girls she works with in #LindyRyan’s DOLLFACE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/d...
An intriguing, odd follow-up to last year’s flick from Danny Boyle, Nia DaCosta’s 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is an examination of different ideologies bashing heads in a postapocalyptic UK. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/2...
Father, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
When we last saw him in the final scenes of 28 Years Later (2025), Spike (Alfie Williams) was getting saved from a mess of infected by a crazily grinning Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) and his …
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January 20, 2026 at 1:47 AM
An intriguing, odd follow-up to last year’s flick from Danny Boyle, Nia DaCosta’s 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is an examination of different ideologies bashing heads in a postapocalyptic UK. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/2...
Real estate has never been so cutthroat as in #JamesFoley’s adaptation of #DavidMamet’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/g...
You Can’t Close, Then Hit the Bricks Pal Because You Are Going Out: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Four shady real estate salesmen struggling to get by with lousy leads are about to be given a new incentive to nail signatures on a rainy night. Only office manager John Williamson (Kevin Spacey) h…
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January 19, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Real estate has never been so cutthroat as in #JamesFoley’s adaptation of #DavidMamet’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/g...
Something sinister is happening in the psych recovering building. Patients are haunted, staff are driven … maybe mad, and evil abounds in #LinetteKing’s horror novella, WARD NO. 13. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/w...
Who’s In Control? Linette King’s Ward No. 13
Dr. Damien Voss is a generous soul, operating a psychiatric program that is intended to bring criminal offenders to their senses with a bleeding-edge approach to medical methodologies. He hopes to …
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January 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Something sinister is happening in the psych recovering building. Patients are haunted, staff are driven … maybe mad, and evil abounds in #LinetteKing’s horror novella, WARD NO. 13. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/w...
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAYS: An immortal comes to earth hunting a demon in the wild and wonderfully weird martial arts fantasy epic, DECENDANT OF THE SUN. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/d...
Not a Good Day to be a Bad Guy … or a Castle Guard: Descendant of the Sun (1983)
When the black snake demon threatens to escape the prison he has been resigned to for the last 500 years, the master of the celestial kingdoms must do whatever it takes to stop him. Unfortunately, …
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January 15, 2026 at 2:09 AM
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAYS: An immortal comes to earth hunting a demon in the wild and wonderfully weird martial arts fantasy epic, DECENDANT OF THE SUN. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/d...
Easy Rawlins pursues a missing woman, matters of the heart, and a family crisis in his latest mystery, GRAY DAWN. Business as usual, maybe, but the heart still beats strong 17 books into #WalterMosley’s series. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/g...
Finder of the Lost: Walter Mosley’s Gray Dawn
Easy Rawlins is living in a nice house, rented to him for cheap by a former, grateful, and wealthy client. His daughter Feather is in France with his ex-girlfriend (and a woman who’s more a mother …
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January 13, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Easy Rawlins pursues a missing woman, matters of the heart, and a family crisis in his latest mystery, GRAY DAWN. Business as usual, maybe, but the heart still beats strong 17 books into #WalterMosley’s series. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/g...
One part animal attack flick, one part slasher film where the most sympathetic character is the killer. PRIMATE is an entertaining fright flick with some terrific suspense. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/p...
Head Trauma: Primate (2025)
Lucy (Johnny Sequoya) is flying home to Hawaii on an unannounced trip. Her sister Erin (Gia Hunter) is not thrilled, her unknowing dad Adam (Troy Kotsur) is leaving on an author tour, and her besti…
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January 13, 2026 at 12:57 AM
One part animal attack flick, one part slasher film where the most sympathetic character is the killer. PRIMATE is an entertaining fright flick with some terrific suspense. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/p...
SELF PROMO SUNDAY: My novella WISH I MAY has been released. To celebrate the forthcoming second entry in THE WISHING STONE QUARTET, it’s on sale for a limited time. Check it out! consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/w...
Wish I May: The Wishing Stone Chronicle 1
Version 1.0.0 My novella, “Wish I May,” is available for purchase. In fact, it’s been around since the tail end of last year, but I have not given it a proper release notice here. As part two of th…
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January 12, 2026 at 1:52 AM
SELF PROMO SUNDAY: My novella WISH I MAY has been released. To celebrate the forthcoming second entry in THE WISHING STONE QUARTET, it’s on sale for a limited time. Check it out! consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/w...
A boxer gets pulled into a kidnapping scheme in #JamesFoley’s exquisite adaptation of #JimThompson’s hardboiled novel, AFTER DARK, MY SWEET. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/a...
Funny How Sometimes Things That Aren’t True Are More True Than the Truth: After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Former boxer Collie (Jason Patric) walked out of an institution some time back, and he’s been walking ever since. With a paper parcel of his few belongings under one arm, he makes his way across th…
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January 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
A boxer gets pulled into a kidnapping scheme in #JamesFoley’s exquisite adaptation of #JimThompson’s hardboiled novel, AFTER DARK, MY SWEET. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/a...
Young women batting personal traumas are stalked by a strange presence in #ChristinaFerko’s YA supernatural thriller, THE DARKNESS GREETED HER. @sourcebooksfire.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/d...
The Difference Between Dead and Dead Enough: Christina Ferko’s The Darkness Greeted Her
Penny has come to Camp Whitewood because she needs help. A little voice in her head tells her to hurt the people around her, and she lives with the daily terror that she will give in to it, that sh…
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January 9, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Young women batting personal traumas are stalked by a strange presence in #ChristinaFerko’s YA supernatural thriller, THE DARKNESS GREETED HER. @sourcebooksfire.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/d...
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAYS: A young man seeks answers and vengeance for his murdered father in the crime-actioner, BLUE CITY. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/b...
A Bad Boy for Good: Blue City (1986)
When bad boy Billy Turner (Judd Nelson) returns home to sunlit Blue City, Florida, he gets into trouble straightaway and winds up in the local Podunk slammer. He knows he’s not going to be there fo…
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January 8, 2026 at 2:42 AM
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAYS: A young man seeks answers and vengeance for his murdered father in the crime-actioner, BLUE CITY. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/b...
A house on the moors holds supernatural secrets that will be revealed by two different women across multiple decades in #CatherineCavendish’s forthcoming short novel, MATILDA’S RETREAT. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/m...
Inquiries into the Otherworldly: Catherine Cavendish’s Matilda’s Retreat
The spooky house on the moors has a long history rife with blood, sacrifice, wickedness, and supernatural horror. Into its halls come two women. Separated by several decades, they will nevertheless…
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January 6, 2026 at 11:41 PM
A house on the moors holds supernatural secrets that will be revealed by two different women across multiple decades in #CatherineCavendish’s forthcoming short novel, MATILDA’S RETREAT. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/m...
A women breaks the safe zone to travel across an apocalyptic Tasmania in search of answers in the moving and emotionally honest survival horror flick, WE BURY THE DEAD. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/w...
Unresolved Issues: We Bury the Dead (2024)
When a blunder results in one of America’s experimental WMDs discharging off the coast of Tasmania, the mainland is ruined and every living thing on the island is killed. Hundreds of concerned, car…
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January 6, 2026 at 12:45 AM
A women breaks the safe zone to travel across an apocalyptic Tasmania in search of answers in the moving and emotionally honest survival horror flick, WE BURY THE DEAD. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/w...
Rural noir comes alive when #ChristopherWalken and #SeanPenn butt heads as father and son in a Pennsylvania crime saga. #JamesFoley’s AT CLOSE RANGE offers gritty thrills aplenty. @cine-matographe.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/a...
I Have A Tale to Tell: At Close Range (1986)
Bradford “Little Brad” Whitewood, Jr. (Sean Penn) came to town when his brother and friends needed help getting their money back from a guy who offered to buy them booze and then didn’t. Tommy Whit…
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January 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Rural noir comes alive when #ChristopherWalken and #SeanPenn butt heads as father and son in a Pennsylvania crime saga. #JamesFoley’s AT CLOSE RANGE offers gritty thrills aplenty. @cine-matographe.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/a...
A woman yearning for pregnancy learns to fear a few things about her husband’s behavior on a remote Washington State island. Or does she? Folk horror and feminism rub shoulders in #MaiaChance’s forthcoming thriller THE RAVINE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/r...
Sinister Secrets and Full Moon Frights: Maia Chance’s The Ravine
Harlow Sullivan is eager to get pregnant. Excited about it, in fact. However, she’s just learned from her expensive and exclusive doctor that she’s suffering a case of “unexplained infertility,” a …
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January 2, 2026 at 1:13 AM
A woman yearning for pregnancy learns to fear a few things about her husband’s behavior on a remote Washington State island. Or does she? Folk horror and feminism rub shoulders in #MaiaChance’s forthcoming thriller THE RAVINE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/r...
Missing memory, a crime with supernatural ripples, a detective on the trail of a girl who dies and returns, and a young woman whose life is coming apart around her. TOMIE is a slow burn oddity from the 1990s and enjoyably bizarre. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/t...
The Girl Who Dies and Comes Back: Tomie (1998)
Izumisawa Tsukiko (Nakamura Mami) is having troubles recalling events from three months dating about three years back. Something involving a bloody accident. Perhaps it was trauma that caused the a…
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December 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Missing memory, a crime with supernatural ripples, a detective on the trail of a girl who dies and returns, and a young woman whose life is coming apart around her. TOMIE is a slow burn oddity from the 1990s and enjoyably bizarre. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/t...
Last book of 2025: Robert Bloch’s 1971 novel, IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND, is a screwball comedy story with touches of fantasy. A feckless college student gets the therapy he needs and grapples with unexpected & increasingly uncanny consequences. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...
Screwball With a Side of Science Fiction: Robert Bloch’s It’s All in Your Mind
Take a good look at that cover. With Bloch’s name in tiny print over the bold title, with a graveyard and a gasping gal, and a concerned face that’s maybe one step this side or that of the line bet…
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December 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Last book of 2025: Robert Bloch’s 1971 novel, IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND, is a screwball comedy story with touches of fantasy. A feckless college student gets the therapy he needs and grapples with unexpected & increasingly uncanny consequences. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...
Benoit Blanc returns to weigh matters of faith and rationality, life and death in the clever, suspenseful, lightly comic, and well considered whodunit, WAKE UP DEAD MAN. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/w...
The Good Friday Murder: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives out Mystery (2025)
After he clocks an irritating deacon, Father Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) expects punishment for his actions. However, Bishop Langstrom (Jeffrey Wright) finds a better use for the man’s passion. …
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December 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Benoit Blanc returns to weigh matters of faith and rationality, life and death in the clever, suspenseful, lightly comic, and well considered whodunit, WAKE UP DEAD MAN. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/w...