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Posted on February 26, 2023

The Birds

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The best horror story ever told, to my mind, has to be The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier. For two reasons: it doesn’t explain the horror and it doesn’t resolve the horror. Again, according to my own guiding… Read More

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Posted on February 23, 2023

X

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X is a throwback to a different kind of horror movie. In the 1960s & 1970s, we got a flood of inexpensive, quick, bloody films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Last House on the Left, Don’t Look In The… Read More

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Posted on February 13, 2023

Barbarian

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Sigh… I hate getting older. At the height of my powers, I could have watched Barbarian and Knock At The Cabin in a double feature. But this guy? This old guy? It took me three sessions to get… Read More

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Posted on February 11, 2023

Proto Bond

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Bored last night, I was digging around in HBO Max’s nether regions when I came across the entire Bond collection. I had only ever seen part of Dr. No when I was a kid so I decided to… Read More

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Posted on February 4, 2023

Lockwood & Co

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I’m only one episode in on this Joe Cornish series and I can already tell this is not your standard YA fare. While its protagonists are teens, the story is more Dickens than Rowling. Great and deep characterization,… Read More

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Posted on February 3, 2023

The Right One

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I was having a conversation about favorite horror movies today when the subject of Let The Right One In came up. It was the opinion of the majority that Eli loved Oskar, but I’ve always felt she had… Read More

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