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As ThatCostumeGirl can attest, I laughed for a solid ten minutes the first time I saw this.  Which she deemed excessive.  I don’t know.  Still seems pretty funny to me…and even funnier in slow motion…just proving what Dave Chapelle said about slow motion was dead on.

The Devil’s Backbone or El Espinazo Del Diablo (Go on and say it out loud.  It sounds cool!) is one of the creepiest, eeriest films I’ve ever seen.  In reality, the only thing that makes this a horror film is the appearance of a ghost!  For the most part, it’s a drama set during the Spanish Civil war.  Be warned, this is a foreign language(Spanish) movie with subtitles, so, if that’s not your thing….I don’t know…go watch that Rob Zombie Halloween remake or something! (more…)

When I asked ThatCostumeGirl whether or not it was weird that I was picking an openly gay man for one of my mancrushes, she gave me the perfect response.  She huffed, rolled her eyes, and left the room.  Pretty appropriate response, I thought.  So, here he is, scene stealer and hot nerd mancrush:  Neil Patrick Harris! (more…)

By now, it should be a familiar story.  How do you know it’s familiar?  Because on their way to their cabin in the woods, this group of plucky young people begin listing all the movies they’re about to rip off.  For all that, however, Dead Snow ends up being one of the funner, more entertaining horror films I’ve seen in a long time. (more…)

We’re going to steer clear of Anne Rice or her books here.  Mostly because I don’t want her to go on a public rant, much like she did when Tom Cruise was cast in Interview With The Vampire.  In the end, of course, she issued a public apology, but she needn’t have bothered.  Everyone and their damn grandmother went to see the movie anyways.  I did, and I was glad I did. (more…)

Sometimes, even the best of us need a little help from our friends.  Almost nowhere is this illustrated better than in Science Fiction.  The funny thing about most of these seconds is that they are great leaders in their own rights.  They seem to have a better grasp of almost any situation than their respective captains/leaders.  Now, I’ve run into a singular problem before with missing certain things, and I’m more than happy to have that pointed out to me.  I like the oppurtunity to find out what’s going on with certain things that I’ve never seen before.  These, however, are my personal top seconds.  So, let’s get to it, in rank order. (more…)

Okay hotshot, pop quiz:  You’re John Carpenter and you’ve just directed the most successful independent film of all time, Halloween.  You need a new movie, and you need it fast.  If you’re movie drops below 50mph, it’ll explode!  You’ve visited England and you’ve just seen a scary fog bank….what do you do, hotshot?  What do you do?

Why, you direct the scariest film about haunted weather phenomena ever:  The Fog! (more…)

Several years ago, while I was in the Air Force and away from my hometown, the people I went to school with got bored (Well, yeah, we were from MiddleofNowhere, KY) and started videotaping themselves in various acts of idiocy.  That’s backyard wrestling, parties, neverending movies, etc.  Most of it was strictly amateur.  A funny thing happened on the way to the video store, though.  I never thought them videotaping themselves would outlive the 90s.  I’ve never been so happy to have been proven wrong. (more…)

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about hard science horror author(and, according to his website, failed pimp) Scott Sigler’s column at AMCTV about lessons learned from monster hunters.  Well, in case you missed it, his site has a podcast, and he very nicely recorded the entirety of the article there.  So, from the author himself, here it is again in audio form, and a very good author will say my name at the beginning.  Well, it’s my nom de ‘net, but still.  Here’s Scott Sigler’s podcast.  Enjoy!

Britain’s Hammer Studios became famous for turning out some truly shitty movies back in the day.  That’s not to say that they were all bad, but for the most part…they were all bad.  Okay, I’ll concede a couple, but for certain, the only good Dracula film they turned out was Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing’s first at bat(heh…I said bat):  Horror of Dracula.  After that, they all head downhill.  Just like the waterslide outside Dracula’s castle, but more on that later. (more…)