I'd really like Lynch to take on a more mainstream project. The Elephant Man is my favorite of his films (that I've seen—I still need to get around to Mulholland Dr. one of these days), and it's good precisely because he took what might have been prestige-y Oscar bait and made something really interesting. I can't be…

To 11-year-old me, Batman was just boring. He didn't have any superpowers! Plus, I never found the villain line-up in Gotham City to be all that compelling. Spider-Man fought genetically enhanced monsters and parasites from outer space. Batman fought gimmicky bad guys who mostly sent waves of henchmen at him and…

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I always liked the Spider-Man show, but if we're going just by opening theme it has to be Batman: The Animated Series. As a kid, I thought Batman was kind of lame in general, but I would still sit through the opening theme for the atmospheric score and animation.

Oh NOW I get it Derpmatic. So if ncc1701 broke into your house, then gave me your iPod a week later, I'm not STEALING anything, I'm just happily accepting free stuff.

You have a fertile and interrogative mind, my friend!

Too bad it adds a horrible "vampire on fire" scene to compensate.

Yes! That car-rental scene is great and is sort of a companion to this scene. Martin just goes off on the person who is making his life hell, it's all cathartic, and then the scene takes a turn where the other person totally slaps him down, and you realize that you've kind of been rooting against Martin the entire…

The shot is too brief to tell, but that's what makes it so shattering. You just don't KNOW what that ghost is going to do.

"What the fuck Willy Wonka" needs to be someone's screen name.

What the …? Where'd he go? SOMEONE ATE NIBBLER IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS POST AAAAAHHHHHH

Yeah, Black Swan had some really unsettling moments. Aronofsky really needs to direct a straight-up horror flick sometime. If Guillermo del Toro never gets to make a Lovecraft movie, Aronofsky is next on my list.

Don't forget the part near the beginning where you first get the shotgun. You're in an empty, well-lit room, you pick up the gun … then all the lights go out except for one area in the center, and half a dozen splicers start shouting and attacking. For some reason the high-society-woman splicer voices always freaked…

I hadn't thought of that under-the-covers thing before. That's interesting. We really are sort of conditioned as children somehow to believe we're safe from the monsters in the closet as long as we're under the covers. Maybe that's why that one scene in "The Orphanage" is so scary to me: the ghost is getting into the…

Seriously. I can only imagine what the *SPOILER*maggot reveal*SPOILER* would do to me if I were a woman and actually physically capable of giving birth.

I'm glad someone else hates the Tony stuff. I dunno, maybe it was hearing all the hype and "REDRUM" references and being really primed to be scared, but when it turned out just to be a kid wiggling his finger and talking in a silly voice I was really let down.

Incorrect. The scariest part of that movie—and my answer to this Q&A—is the first ghost he sees, the abused housewife. Everything about it is scary—the shot of the thermostat slowly going down, her walking in front of the camera while he's taking a leak, her whirling around and exposing her wrist cuts in the kitchen.…

I saw that movie when I was seven or so, and that shot of the eyeless neighbor gave me nightmares for days.

Yeah, 28 Weeks Later gets a lot of love around these parts, and I can only imagine it's because everyone remembers the great first half and chooses to ignore the awful second half. Once the most interesting character (the dad) gets turned into some sort of intelligent super-zombie and the military decides that it's a…

I think that's part of the point though, @avclub-83de02c3cfc3634de1279cbc17a8fbae:disqus . There's no logical explanation for why they wouldn't be able to get their bearings, or for what happened to their map, or for why Mike is standing in the corner like that at the end. Something totally unnatural is going on, and…