Event Coming to Darkside New Jersey Art & Oddities Festival Darkside New Jersey Art & Oddities Festival, happening October 18, 2025 from 10-8 at the NJ State Expo Center in Edison, is the perfect spooky event to celebrate Halloween. See you there!
Event Coming to Puchicon This Weekend Jon me at Puchicon this weekend in Fort Lee, NJ for a fun anime and gaming convention.
sd media Punk Rock Flea Market Saturday, July 26 Come join us as Sketching Details and Crafts by Carolyn kick off the Halloween season at the Punk Rock Flea Market.
Announcements What's New? March 2025 March has been quite busy for Sketching Details and it doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon.
Announcements My Heart Monsters Coming to HorrorCon Find me and the My Heart Monsters at NJ Horror Con.
Announcements Coming to CycloneCon I’ll be at Centenary University’s CycloneCon as part of the Author Alley event. Details inside.
Art Making Art and Craft Again I’m getting back into selling my art and crafts online again. It’s only been, what, 12 years since I shut down the Halloween prop business?
Books/Print #31DaysOfHorror 2022 Schedule It’s here! Welcome to the return of #31DaysOfHorror for 2022.
Event The NHRL Live Experience I went to the season opening tournament for Norwalk Havok Robot Fighting League. Here’s what it’s like in person.
Games Dead by Daylight Halloween Event 2021: The Midnight Grove Review Dead by Daylight’s new Halloween event, The Midnight Grove, runs until 11 November. The event features a new tome, new rewards, and a new experience that feels a lot more fair to all players.
Games Dead by Daylight: Eternal Blight Event Review (Game, 2020) #31DaysofHorror Every time I think Behaviour Interactive is actually working to improve Dead by Daylight and move it in a positive direction, I get disappointed. This is especially true for events, which are getting worse as time goes on.
Event The 75th Annual Tony Awards: What You Need to Know The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing announced that the 75th Annual Tony Awards will happen at some point. We don’t know when. We don’t know how. But they will happen.
Event Dead by Daylight 4th Anniversary Event Review The 4th Anniversary is just so…peaceful by comparison. There are floating crowns on pedestals. They randomly generate one at a time on a map. If someone grabs or breaks one (survivor vs killer objective), a new one generates somewhere on the map. Everyone in a match can interact with a crown because
Event Oscar Nominations and Final Awards The 2018 Academy Award nominations came out last Tuesday and they have me feeling a certain way. I’m going to break down the major categories and share my final nominees and winners in the correlative categories. Let’s get to it.
Event #31DaysofHorror: A Recap Sometimes, you just need to challenge yourself. I’ve been slowly pulling my life back together after giving up full time teaching. Returning to Sketchy Details was a huge part of that. It’s just running a media criticism site exercises very different parts of the brain than teaching did. I’ve writte
Event Antibirth Review (Film, 2016) #31DaysofHorror Content warning: the foundation of Afterbirth is sexual assault implied but not shown at the start of the film. Antibirth is modern weird fiction. There’s really no other way to describe it. It’s a modern psychedelic horror film with a very loose plot connecting a lot of strange imagery meant to sc
Event The Ritual Review (Film, 2018) #31DaysofHorror Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you just can’t get into a film. You can acknowledge its merits, appreciate the technical quality of the film, and just get nothing from the overall story. It makes reviewing a film like The Ritual a challenge.
Event Beyond the Gates Review (Film, 2016) #31DaysofHorror This will shock any long time reader of this site. I once had an obsession over a board game. Yes, shocking news from your friendly OCD critic here. It was called The Harbingers and was part of a VHS board game series called Atmosfear. I was obsessed with this game. My parents knew that I would just
Event The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell Review (TV Series, 2018) #31DaysofHorror It’s not very often that I find TV shows that really feel like I’m the target audience. My interests are wide and varied. I like crafting. I love horror. I’m a lifelong home haunter. I bake. I sew. I work in theater (educational theater mostly, but theater nonetheless) and love set design, lighting,
Event A Dark Song Review (Film, 2017) #31DaysofHorror Content warning: A Dark Song features scenes of violence against women and sexual assault. A Dark Song is a film about truth and perception. A woman, grieving the loss of her son, is willing to do anything to feel a sense of relief from the pain of her loss. She hires an occultist to take her throu
Event American Poltergeist Review (Film, 2015) #31DaysofHorror American Poltergeist is a horror film inspired by the Lizzie Borden story. A group of five college students move into a too good to be true mansion so they can live off campus while attending Brown University. They are renting rooms from a woman who does not tell them anything about the history of t
Event Errementari Review (Film, 2018) #31DaysofHorror Errementari is a retelling of one of the oldest folk tales in the world. “The Smith and the Devil” is the tale of a blacksmith who makes a deal with the devil. Whatever the deal is, the blacksmith uses his new power to trap the devil and torment him until the deal is broken and the smith regains con
Event Stephanie Review (Film, 2018) #31DaysofHorror Stephanie is a horror film about isolation and fear from the perspective of a young child. Stephanie is living on her own. We see her try to do the best she can to survive. She cooks with the few ingredients left in her house—some frozen and canned fruits and vegetables—that aren’t rotting. Aside fr
Event Unsane Review (Film, 2018) #31DaysofHorror Unsane is a horror film about mental health care. Yes, we’re toying with problematic subject matter here for the horror genre. Somehow, director Steven Soderbergh and writers Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer craft a horror film that doesn’t vilify mental health patients, largely because the main c
