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Creature Cast: Why I like Freddy Vs. Jason
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Why I like Freddy Vs. Jason. Why I like Freddy vs. Jason. I first asked Kane Hodder about Freddy vs. Jason. While he made an appearance with Linda Blair at some local Halloween carnival. I'd just gotten into horror in a big. Way, and Jason Voorhees was my big heeeero. Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday. I'm ultimately a Jason guy. Jason is my Frankenstein. He's ultimately pitiable, if you're willing to be reaaaaally. I got really into following the development of the movie on...
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Creature Cast: Why I like the ending lightsaber battle in Empire Strikes Back
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Why I like the ending lightsaber battle in Empire Strikes Back. Why I like the ending lightsaber battle in Empire Strikes Back. We're going outside the typical horror genre on this one, but bear with me. In the book Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film. The first stalking scene I ever saw as a kid was Darth Vader stalking Luke Skywalker through the underbelly of Cloud City. It took me years. Before I could ever watch the movie again. It's hard to be scared of Darth Vader these da...
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Creature Cast: Why I like Ju-on: The Grudge
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Thursday, October 23, 2014. Why I like Ju-on: The Grudge. Why I like Ju-on: The Grudge. Before we begin, a brief autobiographical digression. I was raised in a family that practiced Japanese Buddhism in San Francisco. My family hosted Japanese exchange students, my brother spent a lot of time in Japan, and I'm generally inclined to be favorable to all things Japanese horror. Because a straightforward story about an unstoppable doom would be an exercise in futility, Ju-on. The movie has a lot of scenes of...
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Creature Cast: Only Lovers Left Alive
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Monday, September 22, 2014. Only Lovers Left Alive. Only Lovers Left Alive. Did two things for me: it created three of my favorite vampires of the last few years, and it taught me how to listen to music again. Part of the problem is that music has always been in the background of whatever I'm already doing. I put it on when I'm writing or commuting or riding roller coasters (try playing Schubert's Ave Maria. Most of Only Lovers Left Alive. Is taken up by people listening to music. Springs to mind) and it...
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Creature Cast: Why I like Halloween!
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Friday, October 31, 2014. Why I like Halloween! Why I like Halloween! 31 days of blogging about the horror genre has added up to a lot of pressure on this final post. I can't just write about whatever other dumb movie/book/game I love (I would have done We Are What We Are. For the record.) No, this has to be something GRAND, some big declarative statement on the genre or the holiday. I will endeavor to cover fresh ground, but be prepared to be disappointed. Despite my interest in the macabre, I was still...
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Creature Cast: Why I like Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh
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Friday, October 24, 2014. Why I like Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh. Why I like D.A. Stern's Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh. Is an epistolary novel where all those little clippings tell the story of a doctor, a mental patient, and the supernatural horror stalking them both. Because of the way the story is told, the events feel very real. Fiction has a lot of fundamental artificiality that comes from trying to create a prose style. As the nov...The b...
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Creature Cast: So What Is Horror?
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Thursday, October 2, 2008. So What Is Horror? Horror, to me, is any form of art that is created with intention of instilling dread and/or revulsion in the viewer. It's a dangerous, outlaw, gruesome medium that has been ghettoized as a backwards, lowbrow form of entertainment. People like me, the nutty minority who identify ourselves as genre fans, are a strange bunch. We like. Obviously, people have different levels of tolerance for this stuff. One man's endurance limit ends at the original Halloween.
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Creature Cast: The First Horror Movie I Ever Saw...
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Monday, October 6, 2008. The First Horror Movie I Ever Saw. Was Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Do I have to turn in my horror card now? Am I not cooooool enough for the cool kids anymore? I loved that place. I think I was simply predisposed to escapism. I had a big imagination, and anything that sparked it could hold my attention forever. When I was really small, I watched Wizard of Oz. Over and over, every day, for a year. A couple of years later, it was Return of the Jedi. I didn't watch a horror ...
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Creature Cast: The Beyond
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Friday, March 27, 2009. Must not be flip. Must not make some obvious comment about the apocalypse being started by Joe The Plumber. I didn't have high hopes going into. It's a big movie among our people but everything I've heard about it fell along the lines of "The movie doesn't make sense, but the GORE! Followed by salivation and general unpleasantness on my shoes. I got the sense it was one of those imprint movies people watch during their younger, easily impressed years and its outrageousness. I'm no...
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Creature Cast: Why I like The Ring
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Monday, October 27, 2014. Why I like The Ring. Why I like The Ring. The movie is gorgeous. It's got a watched-out gloomy blue and gray tone that reminds me of old Gothic horror films. I grew up in foggy San Francisco and the atmosphere of the film reminded me of home. Melancholy coastal towns work particularly well in creating a Gothic atmosphere, which fits the ghost story. The interesting thing about The Ring. Reprogrammed the way I viewed horror. It broke a lot of my expectations, it approached th...
