I feel I'm in the grip of a force that's driving me toward something unspeakably evil.

I don't whether it was the first horror anthology film or not, but 1945's Dead of Night , which was made by Ealing Studios, set the standard by which all subsequent ones are judged. The product of four directors and four writers (one of whom was H.G. Wells), the film tells five stories of varying degrees of creepiness held together by a supremely clever linking narrative, although the device ...

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Why are so few of us left active, healthy and without personality disorders?

Back in March, when I saw Watchmen in theaters, I wrote that I was looking forward to Zack Snyder's director's cut so I could see everything that had been left out to keep the running time down. Well, now I've seen the longer cut and I have to say the film plays a whole lot better with the extra 24 minutes added back in, especially since a lot of the restored scenes involve Hollis Mason, a....

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My mind's been acting kinda weird lately.

Okay, then. I've been on vacation for the past week and while I was away I watched a bunch of movies (surprise!), nearly doubling the number I've seen in theaters that were released this year. Here's the rundown on the ones I saw and what I thought of them: First out of the gate was Moon , which was directed by Duncan Jones, who also came up with the story upon which Nathan Parker's screenplay...

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Are you some dark-winged messenger from beyond?

January 19th of this year marked the bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe's birth, an occasion that appears to have been largely overlooked by the general public. In fact, I wasn't aware of it myself until it was brought to my attention by horrormeister Aaron Christensen (a.k.a. Dr. AC ), who kindly sent me a copy of 1963's The Raven when I told him it was the one Roger Corman/Vincent Price AIPoe...

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Holiday wrap-up

On the Eve day of Christmas craigjclark gave to me, The latest book by "PC". That is, John Hodgman's More Information Than You Require , ... styles herself an artist of sorts. On the second day of Christmas we all had Friday free, So thegreyeminence And craigjclark And I went to PRE. Craig was keen on making a trip into Princeton. We scoured the Princeton Record ...

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