The Stand is Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. The fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), the Dark Man.

Monsterland is Hulu's upcoming horror anthology series. Encounters with mermaids, fallen angels, and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in Monsterland, an anthology series based on the collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud’s “North American Lake Monsters”.

Last week I remarked to a friend that despite it only being one week into 2016, I already had a frontrunner for my Movie of The Year in the masterfully brutal The Revenant. My exact words were “It would take one hell of a masterpiece of a movie to beat it”. Just a few days later, my prophetic words barely …