"In the late '60s, horror was a joke, an adolescent indulgence ripe with easily identifiable cliches"
What a ridiculous dismissal of an entire decade's worth of output. Not only is this equally true of the 1970s (gothic horrors starring down-on-their-luck American actors still represent most of the genre output well…

Why would anyone expect this to be good?
The last really decent John Carpenter film was made in 1994. He's made 4 mediocre to terrible films since then. Why is ANYONE surprised that this one is like the last 4?

Anyone who thinks that "Enter the Dragon", "Godzilla", "Hard Boiled", "The Seven Samurai", "After Life" and "Late Spring" are all essentially the same film is just a fucking moron. Stop dignifying that bullshit with serious responses.

You could just buy the DVD:

The Ending …
This wasn't the last film Corman directed before the 1990's. It was the film that caused him to sever his relationship with AIP though, and it was because they forced him to substitute this ending for the more expensive one he originally planned. He started up New World and directed "Von Richthofen and…

Battle Beyond the Stars
You really figure this PG rated film that features Sybil Danning in this costume:

Great …
Now only every other object in your hotel room will be covered in germs.

This film is actually pretty largely inconsistent with the three earlier films:

Pity poor Piers Haggard …
He went straight from working with Sellers on this film to working with Oliver Reed and Klaus Kinski on "Venom".

The musical about Trotsky resurfaces as part of the plot of "The End of the World News"

Why did anyone even dignify the original post with a response? What a waste of time and energy.

No legacy award?
Seriously??? What's wrong with acknowledging the fact that the work someone has done this year is really the culmination of an entire career and acknowledging that fact? Arguably … but not very arguably … A LOT of awards are partly legacy awards. I would say that Colin Firth's award this year and…

You wondered what ever happened to him even though he starred in "The Ghost Writer" last year?

It's not implied. Do you even know what the word "implied" means?

"finally available on DVD"?
"Santa Sangre" has been available on DVD since 2004. It was released on DVD by Anchor Bay in the UK.

"Black Swan" was better than both films.

Caelum's a real person and the author of THE book on Canadian horror films:

@The Drainpipe