Evan Purcell

Here we are. Another week, another mockbuster . This one is a real doozy. Check out my review. I think you can probably tell that this ong...

Train Wreck Alert.  These mockbusters are both soul-crushing and so, so much fun.

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            The folks over at Taste of Cinema invited me back for another guest column. This one is all about horror films based on (no...

My latest film review describes one of the worst cartoons I've ever seen: an ultra-low budget riff on Finding Nemo. If you ever wan...

So I'm working on a top secret young adult project. This is a little teaser. Try to guess what the book will be about...

What does Kid n Play, the 80s blackface comedy Soul Man, wormholes, Jesus, and giant glowing balls have in common? To find the answer, you...

            Dead 7 is a strange beast. It's a zombie Western for the Syfy Channel (enough said, right?) that stars a bunch of former...

2012: Doomsday (A Mockbuster Exclusive)                    There’s something endearingly blasphemous about a Christian movie whose ...

                  Welcome to another snippet from my weekly mockbuster articles over at Slickster Magazine. This week, I'm discussing...

               Many of you guys have been following my weekly MOCKBUSTER articles at Slickster Magazine. I'm five weeks in, and I...

Last Halloween, I was a pirate (again). We had urban legend time at school, and it was a blast. There's an amazing urban legend called...

Apocalypse Pompeii : Looks awful, doesn't it? Well, against all odds, it's actually pretty fun. Check it out!

For the last eighty years, Walt Disney Studios has been the dominant force in animated musicals. Since 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dw...

This is me at my very first traditional Zanzibari wedding. I'm the one in blue.

"I hate my agent."                 Did you watch Fifty Shades of Grey and wish it had more long, boring scenes about real est...

In my work as headmaster of a small school in Zanzibar, I see some pretty adorable things every day. However, this week was the cutest ...

Have you seen Thor , the action film about a Marvel superhero who gets stranded in New Mexico and falls in love with Natalie Portman? Yeah...

Do you remember Midnight Echo , the awesome Australian magazine I was in last year? It was such a cool issue, and I was flattered to hav...

  I'm very excited to announce that I have a new weekly feature in Slickster Magazine. Every Tuesday, I'll post another article ...

Okay, everybody! There is an awesome new movie that just came out called Midnight Special . Now, I've been out of the country, so I...

As some of you may know, I'm a huge Tim Burton fan. And as a self-respecting (more-or-less) Tim Burton fan, I've been a little ...

The Young Messiah  is exactly what its title implies: it’s a Muppet Babies-version of the New Testament. Specifically, it follows a seven...

In honor of everybody's fourth favorite holiday, I wanted to talk a little bit about everyone's seventh favorite horror movie franc...

Hello! Hello! I know it's been a while, but I FINALLY have a new horror story out, and this one is a doozy! It's called Beach Boy...

Hello, friends and Romans. Just a friendly reminder that my romance novel Rev Your Engines has driven into Amazon and is waiting for mor...

  So the Oscars are today! There's been a lot of (totally justified) complaints about the lack of diversity in this year's nomine...

So apparently I'm a "new master of the dark," whatever that means. Aside from the slight hyperbole of the cover, this antho...

    So I've been published in a lot of random places ( Australian horror magazines , H.P. Lovecraft collections , red hot romance pu...