It's been a while since I saw season 1 and my memory's not what it used to be, but didn't Alicia's power victimize herself as much as the men around her? Aside from the fact that she couldn't trust any attention from men because her power made her irresistible, wasn't she threatened with rape more than once as she…

He was Cupid once. That might explain it.

Did Taxi Driver make John Hinckley crazy? No. Of course there's no telling what he would have done had the movie not existed, but he probably would have done something, and, who knows? it might have been a botched assassination.

I haven't even started watching this season yet, but the intros to the first two were pretty shiver inducing. Just the music alone gives me a bit of a frisson.

Where can I sign up?

I think you mean lemur. Or tarsier.

Hey, I was going to make a KM joke here. Damn it all.

They were considered grunge in central Maine in 1992.

Yes to this. Her squeamishness makes no sense at all,

Or a woman.

In that case, they should have gone on an aspirin run.

That puts a whole new spin on "the big O."

Aw. You're missing out.

I read John Hersey's HIROSHIMA when I was twelve. It remains my benchmark for nuclear horror.

You should listen to Tom Lehrer's "We Will All Go Together When We Go" (http://www.youtube.com/watc….

I grew up during the Cold War. I feel much sorrier for people growing up now.

The book THE EXORCIST scared me and so did the movie afterward. In fact, the latter gave me so many creeps that I left before it was done, even though the movie was almost finished: I fled after Karras shatters himself on those damn stairs. The tension was just too much for me to bear any longer. (NB: I saw the…

Oh, my, that miniseries was dreadful. Most Stephen King adaptations are, really, The Shining is a good movie in its own right, and if I hadn't read the book first I probably would have liked it a lot. But only Carrie (the original) is as good as (actually, I think it improves on) the book.

I had the same experience with The Shining. The book was the first by Stephen King that I'd ever read, in one gulp at night, and it scared me more than books usually do (although Peter Straub's GHOST STORY frightened me more and more often, which makes me shake me head in retrospect). I was excited to see the movie,…

Without the last scene, the movie would just be okay. But that ending gave me chills chillier than I'd felt for many a long year.