These are strange times, to be sure. Unprecedented times. These are the times people will talk about in the future the way we talk about the Great Depression. They will speak of it in a dreamy sort of wonder at how it could have happened and why it happened and ponder how people survived. I… Continue reading Wheels Keep Turnin’
Author: Chris Ringler
Author, blogger, podcaster, filmmaker, artist, and all around odd fellow.
The Bookstore Is Always Open!
Hey there! The good thing about the the internet is that the bookstore is always open. You can always track down my many books on Amazon. Ghosts, demons, sheep, zombies, queens, monsters, heroes, and everything in between. It's there. Take a look and I promise you'll find something for you. Or just look me up… Continue reading The Bookstore Is Always Open!
But What If We’re Already Good Enough?
I can’t tell you how many years of my life I have spent believing all of the awful things people that didn’t like me told me or that I told myself. I would see what other people are doing with their lives and families and careers and would think What Am I Doing Wrong? I… Continue reading But What If We’re Already Good Enough?
FIREWATCH – game review (XBox One)
I don’t get a chance to play videogames a whole lot these days. I mean, when it comes to videogames I am the epitome of CASUAL GAMER. I love bigger games, adoring RED DEAD 2, and DYING LIGHT, and loads of others, but I would usually rather play something for a short time or watch… Continue reading FIREWATCH – game review (XBox One)
THE HOUSE AND THE WHITE STRING – found footage review
I have to be honest with this one, this is a short film, not a feature. It’s a longer short film, for sure, but it’s not a feature. The crummy part here though is that this COULD have been a feature. Pretty easily. It’s a two person show, doesn’t really rely on expensive effects of… Continue reading THE HOUSE AND THE WHITE STRING – found footage review
The Spooky Chris Podcast – Convenince Store Days
In which I talk about my days of working at a convenience store. Oh boy! Music by SKELETON KIDS
POPULATION ZERO – found footage review
OK, OK, OK. It’s a fake documentary, as FAUXumentary, if you will. And it’s not a horror film. Not to ruin any sort of mystery for you but it’s better if you know going in or you will spend the entire film wondering what will happen to spookify it all. It’s not there. This isn’t… Continue reading POPULATION ZERO – found footage review
It Just Doesn’t Matter
Do you sometimes get the feeling that it just doesn’t matter? In the whole the big old largeness of EVERYTHING but then also closer to the ground, things like the January 6th hearings and, for folks like me in Flint, the quest to punish people over the water. That none of it really matters. It… Continue reading It Just Doesn’t Matter
They Just Don’ Wanna Work
Another chestnut I love hearing these days is how ‘they’ don’ wanna work. You hear it a lot from business owners wringing their hands at people ‘not wanting to work’, the implication being these people, whomever they are, are both lazy and taking advantage of the system. This has been a familiar refrain for years… Continue reading They Just Don’ Wanna Work
HOWARD’S MILL – found footage review
The content reviews HOWARD'S MILL, a fauxumentary film about a mysterious disappearance during a treasure hunt. It highlights the film's effective documentary style, believable performances, and engaging creepiness. While some mysteries remain unsolved, it’s praised as a solid found footage piece deserving more attention. The reviewer rates it 3.75 out of 5.
Enough Is Enough.
I really have to ask this, knowing that there’s not an answer I will get, or that any of us will get that will make a lot of sense but why do we continue to let documents written by people who have been dead and gone for hundreds and even thousands of years rule us?… Continue reading Enough Is Enough.
Oh, Hey, It’s Tubi!
Ya know, I have to admit that I was very, very late to the Tubi game but man alive, I am all in now. Tubi, for those who may not know is a free streaming service (owned by a bigger entity, thus allowing them to exist) that allows you to stream movies for free. We… Continue reading Oh, Hey, It’s Tubi!
Effects
I consider myself lucky in my dealings with Covid-19. Considering how many people lost loved their lives, lost loved ones, or lost months to illness I got lucky. It hit my family hard, to be sure. My infant daughter brought it home from daycare and when she started projectile vomiting it had to have taken… Continue reading Effects
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 