15 hours on the road and I was my own red-eye on I-94’s corridor of stripclubs, fireworks and roadkill, racing past dead deer in Michigan, then Gary, Indiana’s steel mills and through Chicagoland, the Sears Tower in the distance waiting for its evil eye, till the highway gave […]
Big Dead Place, a website devoted to Antarctica, offers a whole section devoted to reviews (and one boardgame version) of John Carpenter’s The Thing. (Actually, the whole site is swell).
“Wesley stands up straight, deepens his voice, and declares, ‘I’m with Starfleet. We don’t lie.’ Ah, Wesley may be able to save the ship, but he sure can’t save bad dialogue.” Wil Wheaton reviews Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. (thanks, paulie!)
Hammer Studios and Corman horror star, Hazel Court, died Wednesday. She starred with icons like Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Peter Lorre–and even Patrick McGoohan (Danger Man) and Rock Hudson on television.
“I look at it as a movie about this funny, weird old guy. And I think, ‘That’s a funny, weird old guy. I’d love to know him. He’s really funny.’Harlan Ellison talks about Dreams With Sharp Teeth, a new documentary about him. (Salon article, here)
Is it the human or the not-human that terrifies people in The Creature from the Black Lagoon? Frank Wu writes about the Gill-Man, the Uncanny Valley and “the human and inhuman at war within ourselves.” (Thanks, Chuck!)
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