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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic. Sunday, October 12, 2014. The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics. Horror comics came into being in earnest near the start of WWII and quickly became hugely popular – and controversial. Before they were effectively banned by the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1954, horror comics were being release monthly under dozens of different titles. By far the most famous are the four main offerings from EC: Shock Suspenstories, The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear,.
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic: Curse of Chucky (2013)
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic. Saturday, October 19, 2013. Curse of Chucky (2013). Was, as much as any horror movie, a pretty big deal back in 1988. Based around the chilling concept of the soul of a serial killer inhabiting the body of a large “Good Guy” doll (closely resembling the then-popular “My Buddy” and “Kid Sister” line of toys), Child’s. Received generally good reviews and ended up making over $44 million worldwide – nearly five times its budget. A full-blown dark comedy. Vision of the c...
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic: Child Exorcism in the U.S.
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic. Sunday, January 19, 2014. Child Exorcism in the U.S. This has been a movie blog for a couple of years now, but I saw something in the news today that demanded a return to skeptic mode. CNN is reporting. Exorcism in general and child exorcism in particular are topics about which I have no moderate position. Human society should be working to stamp out this kind of pseudo-sorcerous nonsense, and yet this morning we see a report of it here in the U.S. There's a caveat t...
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic: Two Different Kinds of Terrifying...
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic. Wednesday, July 02, 2008. Two Different Kinds of Terrifying. A movie came out in 1973 that scared the ever-loving crap out of people: The Exorcist. Based on William Peter Blatty's novel, this film about demonic possession was a cultural phenomenon that captured worldwide attention and ultimately spawned four sequels. (Yes, I can count: Exorcist II, Exorcist III,. And two vastly different versions of the fourth film, Dominion. And Exorcist: The Beginning. Whose appare...
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic: Return of the Evil Dead (1973)
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic. Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Return of the Evil Dead (1973). Depending on your age, when you think of European horror flicks you probably think of either the Italian zombie/cannibal era of the 70s and 80s or the unexpected Scandinavian horror boom of the last decade or so. In the early 1970s, however, there were a number of horror films from Spain making their way to U.S. shores. Among the most recognizable of these is the Blind Dead. Flick, The Ghost Galleon.
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic: Pretty Good Movies With Pretty Bad Endings
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic. Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Pretty Good Movies With Pretty Bad Endings. It turns out that writing movies isn’t easy. As anyone who reads this blog -or, more likely, actually watches movies- knows, there are a lot of pretty bad ones out there. A bad movie in and of itself is pretty innocuous. After all, truly, truly bad movies are easy to spot, and most people who watch them know what they’re getting into. Without some personal culpability for the act. With a budget of r...
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic: American Samurai (1992)
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic. Monday, March 03, 2014. When I was in middle school in the mid-1990s, I got bitten pretty hard by the Highlander. You know the movies and attendant television series about immortal guys fighting with swords? I was totally into those, and I have a collection of stamped steel flea market samurai swords in my closet to prove it. Because of Highlander,. Video games to standing out in the woods with my buddy Josh and cudgeling each other with sticks. A bit of disclosure h...
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic: Arena (1989)
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The Adventures of Skippy the Skeptic. Tuesday, February 03, 2015. In the late 1980s a subgenre of martial flick that I’ll call “fighting tournament” movies sprang into being. You get bonus points if the hero has a buddy who’s also. Tough enough to beat the bad guy but gets crippled/killed due to some kind of chicanery. 8220;You’re exaggerating, Skippy”, I can hear you say. Kickboxer, Bloodsport, Bloodfist, No Holds Barred, Lionheart,. The Best of the Best. The Quest, Ring of Steel. Aka Last Man Standing.
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Cogitatio: July 2009
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Friday, July 31, 2009. Mapping game play into work. About 15-16 years ago I had a conversation with a colleague where I thought it would be possible to create a video game where the game play mapped into useful work. So, in other words, players would think they are just being entertained but in reality they were solving some difficult problem that someone could profit from. Well, this has come to pass:.
