Project Blue Book is a brain-sucking worm lodged in the zombified skull of America, incessantly jamming the fear button in what’s left of our parasite-eaten gray matter to provoke us into shadowboxing hallucinations of the Deep State and Russian spies.
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It’s easy to fear what you don’t understand. History is full of examples of people acting irrationally because of superstitions. The strigoi, for example, has been a target of scorn in Romania since the mid-seventeenth century. Part ghoul, part ghost, ...
Read More »The Thundering Banality of Halloween (2018)
In a recent interview with Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that the 2018 remake/reboot/sequel/reanimated corpse of Halloween (2018) underwent re-writes before making it to the screen. Most significantly, the opening of the film changed from a ...
Read More »Don’t Fuck With Charles Bronson: A Look Back at ‘Murphy’s Law’ (1986)
Descend into parody or live long enough to watch yourself become boring. By 1986, Charles Bronson had worked with director J. Lee Thompson on five films — St. Ives (1976), The White Buffalo (1977), Cabo Blanco (1980), 10 to Midnight ...
Read More »Mormons, Aliens, and Dan Haggerty: The (Mostly) True Story of Sunn Classic Pictures
Bigfoot. Ancient astronauts! Noah’s Ark? You might think I’m referring to the programming schedule for the History Channel, and you wouldn’t be wrong depending on who you ask, but for anyone wondering why modern television is populated by what are ...
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