For years, my definition of a one-season lost gem was Kolchak the Night Stalker, though it may have run for two seasons. In the early days of VHS, I desperately sought every episode of that one out. Not sure why, anymore.

@drdarke:disqus , the first episode that I beheld of Dr. Who, on PBS in the 70s, was Ark in Space, the episode preceding The Sonteran Experiment. It blew my itty-bitty mind to see all these well-trained, committed actors orating their lines amid the most wretched special effects I'd ever seen outside of a…

Short Skirt, Long Jacket by Cake.

I would still watch that over the Charmed reboot.
[Pops popcorn, plunks down on sofa]

Another odd thing about the movie is that I believe at some point every single character smokes, including a goldfish, underwater. And a whale.

Pinocchio is such a dark, disturbing film, that if it were released today, it would never be regarded as a children's movie. Another grisly thing about it: All of the dangerous characters out to hurt or exploit Pinocchio—the fox, Stromboli, the coachman, the whale—are never punished or stopped. The moral of the film…

Another primal fright image—long hallways. I frequently have dreams about wandering down long hallways, such as the ones in hotels, and I'll bet I'm not the only one. Maybe I'm a closet concierge or something.

I know it was filmed in the 20th century, but to me Nosferatu is one of the greatest 19th (or maybe even 18th) century films ever made. The sense of an unstoppable wave of disease killing a whole town, taking away the children, is just overpowering. Something very common until recently. I'm fine with using vampires to…

Picnic at Hanging Rock has one scene that has spooked me for years, when the girls in white, exploring the rock, file into a cave, and the film slows down, and we get a close-up of the remaining girl as she sees something terrifying and then she's running away. We never know really what she saw, or if the girls filing…

@lordspango:disqusThank you. Something about buildings behaving like organic things is terrifying. It must be a hard-wired-into-the-reptilian-part-of-the-brain fear, because it's used so often (e. g. House of Leaves, Repulsion, etc.).

So then Kubrick was trying to tell us about a secret moron landing? Was it the guy in the bunny suit?

Well, I think that's true generally.

Just so you know, I haven't forgiven you for not inviting me to your She-Ra birthday party.
And now you tell me that it was kickass. Jesus, rub it in.

Surprisingly dangerous animals, according to a zookeeper I knew. Just sauntering, their legs swing with such force that they can send any keeper they accidentally kick flying across the room.

And Kwantha!

Keep Mithras in Christmas!

"A Life" seems like what they put on unofficial biographies. Official bios get "The Biography." Both help to distinguish bios from "Robert Plant: How To," a guide to building and assembling your own Led Zeppelin front man.

Simon le Bonham.

What were the Bumsquashes thinking when they gave their daughter a first name like that?

@avclub-b20754d0f1e8ae843e00a8b39a667112:disqus I would replace "not terribly faithful" with "not remotely faithful;" if you're approaching Bladerunner from the perspective of a PKD fan looking for an accurate film translation of the author's works and ideas, it falls woefully short. As early-80s-pre-CGI-dystopia, it…