What’s one of the most frequent complaints about horror films? “They were so dumb! Why didn’t they just….” Not a complaint that can be levelled at any part of Get Out. The audience surrogates never really put a foot wrong…it … Continue reading Scene Dissections: Get Out – Intro
Time for another survey! First, some links: Survey 1 results – https://disqus.com/home/dis… Survey 2 results – https://disqus.com/home/dis… So for Survey 3, I want to redo the first one with maybe a few questions carried over from the second one. Looking for your … Continue reading Survey 3 – Radpocalypse Wow!
Hello! If you’re reading this you’ve decided that you love musicals so much that you want to go back and read the old Musicals Threads. That’s great! Feel free to comment and join us each Tuesday to discuss all things … Continue reading Musicals Thread (Gateway Shows)
10/09/2017 – Modernized: The Return of Dracula (1958) Directed by Paul Landres As the consistent stream of remakes since the beginning of cinema has proven, there will always be a market for new versions of classic tales. But, just redoing a film over and … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Modernized: The Return of Dracula
The team stood in darkness. Occasionally a few whispers could be heard. Someone thought they heard a sob or two. After a few minutes, there was a loud metallic clang. The members of the Strike team collectively cringed, knowing what … Continue reading Werewolf 42: Cyberpunk 2 Car 6: The Broken Link
10/08/2017 – China: Song at Midnight (1937) Directed by Ma-Xu Weibang Any writer who tells you they still like their old work is delusional or lying. Even going back and looking at my write ups from two years ago is painful and … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – China: Song at Midnight
10/07/2017 – Sub-R Horror: Ouija (2014) Directed by Stiles White Nearly 100 years ago in 1922, the Motion Picture Association of America (better known as the MPAA) was founded ostensibly to protect against censorship (especially that which occurred on a regional level) … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Sub-R Horror: Ouija
It’s strange to me how much continuity the show has at this early stage. Most of the time, this involves introducing elements that would go on to become iconic aspects of the series – the retirement home, Homer’s job as … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Six, “Like Father, Like Clown”
10/06/2017 – Female Directors: Raw (Grave) (2016) Directed by Julia Ducournau Technically I discussed this topic here last year, but I did so on the 12th review of the final day of the marathon. I summed up the work of over half the world’s … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Female Directors: Raw (Grave)
There was much more shuffling around in the darkness this time around. Everyone wanted to do something with the gauntlet, whether it was to take it or destroy it. Some minutes passed and a sudden crack of electricity sounded. Something … Continue reading Werewolf 42: Cyberpunk 2 Car 5: A Meal To Die For
Hey everyone! It’s me, not delivering what I promised last week. Having a cold and staying home from the archive to keep my plague from spreading unfortunately cuts me off from accessing the fun stuff like old Playboy magazines and whathaveyou. Thankfully … Continue reading Let’s Read Life Magazine from 1945!
10/05/2017 – Chucky: Curse of Chucky (2013) Directed by Don Mancini After the release of Halloween in 1978, the Slasher genre quickly fell into patterns. Halloween begat the lousy Friday the 13th series and it seemed like that was the template for everything that followed. Most of the films were … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Chucky: Curse of Chucky
10/04/2017 – Remakes: The Phantom of the Opera (1962) Directed by Terence Fisher It may not be defending Saw, but defending remakes can still be a challenging. If there is any genre that has been well served by remakes it is horror. Sure there … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Remakes: The Phantom of the Opera
The Strike Team shuffled about the dark vault car. A few coughs, but mostly, they strained to hear anyone moving suspiciously. SM4PT1 attempted to move about, feeling around for switches. The few he found did nothing. FInally, he found a … Continue reading Werewolf 42: Cyberpunk 2 Car 4: Vengeance Declined
We managed to pull this together last year, so why don’t we take what we learned and give it another shot? Note: PLEASE DO NOT SHIP LIVE ANIMALS IT’S GIFTMASIVERSARY Y’ALL!! Last year we did this on the one-year anniversary … Continue reading Giftmasiversary II: Son of Santa
10/03/2017 – Stephen King: It (2017) Directed by Andy Muschietti As good a year as horror is having, Stephen King may be having one just as good. He’s already co-written a book (with one of his sons which has unsurprisingly already been … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Stephen King: It
Hello! If you’re reading this you’ve decided that you love musicals so much that you want to go back and read the old Musicals Threads. That’s great! Feel free to comment and join us each Tuesday to discuss all things … Continue reading Musicals Thread (TV)
The full chart: http://americantop40.wikia…. How’s the chart as a whole? 1987 is a huge year in pop; an echo of 1984 with blockbuster albums that are really quite good, a crop of breakout stars, and a goldmine of forgotten pop nuggets … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: October 3, 1987
10/02/2017 – James Wan: Dead Silence (2007) Directed by James Wan In 2003, two Australians (one born in Malaysia) made a 9 minute short on a shoestring budget in order to be able to pitch a full length version of this idea. … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – James Wan: Dead Silence
The team sat quietly in the darkness. They thought about poor Jack. He had taken his death in stride, just like everything else in life, but they couldn’t shake the guilt of being wrong, twice now. The sound of the … Continue reading Werewolf 42: Cyberpunk 2 Car 3: The Meat Fridge
Rick and Morty Season 3 Episode 10: “The Rickchurian Mortydate” Grade: C- Well that was… infuriating. Which I guess is kind of the point. We’ll see at the start of the next season (probably) how all the changes in … Continue reading “The Rickchurian Mortydate” Rick and Morty S3 E10
