A small moment of self-promotion…
I was a little surprised to find that the new online version of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is actually… encyclopedic! The entry on Challenging Destiny, for example, is really accurate. (Thanks Dave!)
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
John Carpenter’s Halloween
John Carpenter presents a series of Halloween videos on Funny or Die, from a short about a Cat-Thrower to one about Charlie Brown, Blockhead.
Good Books for Bad Days
By its very nature, a Romance is suffused with positive attitude. The characters learn who they are, what kind of lives they want, and then proceed to go out and get them. The end result is effort rewarded (which is frankly more interesting than virtue rewarded, because virtuousness […]
“This is a system gone utterly, gruesomely mad.”
Linda Holmes has some things to say about the madness of the MPAA rating “system.”
Slate’s 25 Best Horror Films of the 2000s
Slate has a nicely ecletic and thoughtful list of the best horror films of the ’00s, including many Midnight Madness favorites and films by Rob Zombie, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Sam Raimi, Tomas Alfredson, David Cronenberg, William Friedkin, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury.
25 Horror Comics Proving Wertham Right (Not Really)
Over at Dork Forty, Mark puts up a gallery of harrowing pre-Comics Code horror comics: “In spite of Frederick Wertham’s claims in his legendary anti-funnybook screed Seduction of the Innocent, reading lurid comics featuring gruesome images of horror is cathartic, natural, and (most important) fun! For the whole damn […]
The Cultural Gutter 