“Oh, now, children. We’ve got to keep some secrets today.” –Bruno (Lon Chaney, Jr.) offering words of wisdom to his wards in Spider Baby
[Image description: a black and white photo of three teenagers and an older man sitting in front of a house. From left is a girl with blond pigtails and a sundress with white [...]
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And He Who Walks Behind the Rows did say, “I will send Outlanders amongst you…and these Outlanders will be unbelievers and profaners of the holy.”
–Isaac (John Franklin), Children of the Corn
All right, go ahead and sacrifice me to your respective vegetable-god. I like Children of the Corn.
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When I was seven years old, I was in love with, and terrified by, a movie called Dolls Its director, Stuart Gordon, was famous for his film adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories–including the cult classic The Re-Animator, which would’ve made Lovecraft himself projectile-vomit–and would later switch gears entirely with Disney’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. [...]
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[Image description: Three plush hamsters standing in a semicircle, each one about 3 inches high. They all have huge, dark eyes. On the left is the only male, mostly white with orange ears and forehead. He's holding his front paws close to his chest. In the middle is a female hamster, completely white. On the [...]
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“Hey, do y’all have the new Super Smash Bros.?”
I can’t believe I’m asking this question. Fighting games aren’t exactly my favorite videogame genre. Sure, I fiddle with them sometimes—at 12, I rented Mortal Kombat II at the video store because “Hey! It’s the game Congress hates!”—but they aren’t much fun to play if you don’t [...]
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