The first time I saw 'The Descent' I saw it on my laptop with headphones (I had just moved and hadn't set up my TV/DVD yet). Anyway, few movies improve under those circumstances, but I have to say the sound design of that film through headphones amplifies the claustrophobia beyond all reason. Something about the…

I mentioned elsewhere the taxonomy of Horror techniques I developed, and also elsewhere that the most effective one is the "fleeting irrational transgressive image" (furry blowjobs, anyone? With boar tusks no less). It seems to me that, while not strictly speaking, a Horror director, David Lynch is nevertheless a…

Stephen King is wrong—if he can admit aloud that his imagination can always come up with a better monster than his actual writing can capture, why can't he accept that his reader's imaginations can as well? Why give the audience a product you yourself consider a let down? Actually, this is very telling about the way…

"The cursed tape in RINGU doesn't look like a Nine Inch Nails video"

Or Barney Frank's Utopia!

I used to read 'Helter Skelter' and a lot of those true crime mass market paperbacks on serial killers when I was a bookseller and they don't scare me much, but when I was in high school and listened to 'The White Album' using headphones for the first time after reading about the Tate/LaBianca murders—That was…

But how could I forget this guy:

Boo!
Nothing will ever scare me like the time I saw 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" as a toddler at the drive in. It was a part of a double feature with some forgettable animated version of 'The Wizard of Oz' and my parents expected me to be asleep well before it began. Boy, were they wrong—for months my nightmares were…

OK, "Hulk etc." except that shit applies to vampires too, times a million and in space too, times a million. And yet vampires, compared to werewolves, will still always be boring—Slow moving, lugubrious, self-indulgent, and above all, boring.

Obvious? You'd think so—and yet the closest cinema ever came to making the "obvious" werewolf/puberty connection prior to 'Ginger Snaps' was 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf', the two 'Teen Wolf' films and the underrated 'Company of Wolves'. Of those, only the last made the connection explicitly female—and for the record…

Rex, it's not Horror, but have you seen 'The Black Robe'? It really makes palpable the sense of how much "settling New Canada" was akin to exploring an alien planet in outer space—no lycanthropic excess necessary.

"I think they also played much closer to their own ages"

"that saxaphone dude"

Yes 'The Howling' is dated—but so is the particular strain of California Mellow self-help it satirizes. Plus it, 'American Werewolf' and 'Wolfen' all came out around the same time—displaying three radically different takes on the werewolf idea. 'American Werewolf' played it straight but more for comedy, 'Wolfen' as an…

I can't believe I'm defending this, but it wasn't the same two girls—it was some kind of rhyming generational/reincarnation thing, intended to lend the importance of reiterative history and First Nation culture to the lycanthropy of the original—which of course, is totally unnecessary.

I don't know if this is what the Hulk is saying, but 'Wolf' is a terrible werewolf movie.

Not nearly enough.

"fist sequel"—It's a typo! Get your head out of the gutter.

I recognize the thematic similiarity, but 'The Lost Boys' is just not that good. It's what the excellent 'Near Dark' would have been if it had also featured as protagonists 'The Goonies'.

Not after seeing this, but when I was in high school I was struck by how much more realistic the Degrassi series (junior and senior) was than anything about school on American TV—'Head of the Class'? I don't think so.