You know what? I'm over it. You guys would give London Calling or Exile or Paul's Boutique or Small Change or Desire or Nebraska or Number of the Beast a C when it first came out. Out.

Polidori based his vampire, Lord Ruthven, the first real vampire in English Lit, actually on Lord Byron. And one of Stoker's inspirations for Count Dracula was the great stage actor Henry Irving. "Logical Byronic extreme" makes perfect sense.

If they were being published anew today, *would* Anne Rice's densely historical and philosophically complex (well, kinda) Vampire Chronicles sell to the tweens who buy the Twilight series? I sincerely doubt it. When I was in high school reading The Vampire Lestat paperback one of my friends—who was pretty…

My parents took me to the movies all the time as a kid: the original Star Wars, Jaws, Raiders, Superman, Close Encounters, first King Kong remake, Grease, Alien, Smokey & the Bandit, WarGames, man that was a great time to be a kid. Movies on TV included all the Elvis ones, Great Escape, Abbott & Costello, etc. I still…

It's taken Slayer this long to write a song about Unit 731? I saw Men Behind the Sun 10 years ago! Come on guys!

The French are kicking it again with the Grand Guignol that puts Hostel, Saw, etc. to shame, witness Inside, Martyrs and Them. That's where it's at. Leastways far as I'm concerned.

Wagner's "Sticks" is great! It's reminiscent of a popular horror movie that I will not name. Ramsey Campbell has a collection of his old Cthulhu-esque stories called "Cold Print." Anything by Thomas Ligotti, especially "Grimscribe," definitely belongs on the shelf next to Lovecraft—figuratively and literally, I just…

I've got the four-volume Arkham House set of his fiction, but that B&N complete collection was given to me for my birthday and it's marvelous.

I forgot about that black-and-white version of "Call of Cthulhu"! It was fun, definitely worth seeing, but it's not a full-length movie. And apart from a few moments scattered throughout, "The Dunwich Horror" with Ed Begley (!), Sandra Dee (!) and Dean Stockwell (okay, that makes sense) is pretty non-Lovecraftian.

Dog Brothers? You don't mean Dog Soldiers, do you? Because that one was pretty bad-ass too.

See Stuart Gordon's DAGON from 2001, which is not an adaptation of that story but of "Shadow over Innsmouth." Ending intact. Hot tentacle girl. Decent gore. Great DVD commentary.

Gotta chime in with my love for this movie, which really kick-started my love for the modern horror movie when it came out. And its climactic FX really work—I was so psyched that the werewolf was an actual *thing* and not some lame CGI'd monstrosity added in afterward. The way Ginger kept attacking Bridgitte hiding…

Movie marquee letters fall on her. Dude asks her: "How's your head?" She says, "I haven't had any complaints."

'Merry Christmas: Please Don't Fight'—I assume you mean the Ramones' "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)". Yeah, who doesn't love Xmas tunes sung by rock'n'roll Jews?!

No questions on…
…Soledad Miranda?! Alas.

I wish Glenn Danzig would write a book, remember his book collection in that video? It would be awesome.

Yeah, those sound incredible! Don't hold out!

How come
… this movie title is missing a hyphen? I know every generation hyphenates in its own way, but this is driving me crazy.

What, you guys didn't think Martyrs or Let the Right One In were laff riots?

I don't think we've got much to worry about—Hammer has been saying they're making a comeback for years.