So why is this review running a week and a half early?

As in "Let's take the Demi Lovato and go get some gelato"?

The only way I finished Silent Hill 2 was in a group effort with my brothers around. I've tried, but never been able to go back and navigate my way through the whole game while playing alone.

It's had a gradual, rolling art house release going since late August or early September. It didn't get to Houston until mid-October.

I liked Goodnight Mommy a lot, but I feel like it has been a bit oversold by critics as a horror film when it's more of a psychological drama with horror elements.

See, yes. Coach and JT I definitely remember. That at least gives me a guidepost for his season, but he still doesn't ring a bell. Oh well.

I've watched every episode of Survivor but I have no memory of Fischbach's first time around. I guess that happens over 30 seasons worth of contestants. Anyway, he seems like Cochran with 25% of the charisma, none of the self-awareness, and a huge lack of self-esteem. Probably the most annoying person out there this…

I would agree with that, actually. I just found it nervy that they would finally, actually put some time in to developing Beth for half a season, and then instead of using her improved personality like Carol, they just decided to get rid of her. I can totally see you thinking it was a cheap death, because, really, it…

Some of the oddball stuff, like the scenes with the locals in the cafe, and the fact that the decidedly unusual relationship between the father and his friend was apparently not meant to imply a homosexual relationship at all, according to Alfredsson. This stuff, along with the generally languid pacing, certainly gave…

Killing off mid-level characters in various creative ways (Bob, Tyreese, Noah) and low-level redshirts in just regular zombie attacks is what TWD does most of the time. Besides the aforementioned Beth incident, it's been quite a while since the show has really put one of those core characters in true mortal peril.

It's been a while since TWD has done something that ballsy (I guess losing Beth right when everyone arrived in Atlanta to save her comes pretty close). It would be brutal but a nice curveball to both show watchers and comic book readers.

I still find that scene one of the most chilling in horror over the past 20 years or so.

I was partial to the Taco Bell Bell.

Yeah, they would've mentioned Let Me In if they'd been talking about the Matt Reeves-directed Chloe Moretz movie. Which was also pretty damn great and fixed some of the minor pacing and cultural weirdness issues I had with the original.

Thirst was the film where I finally went, "Ah, Korea. I can't take the melodrama in your horror movies anymore." A really interesting premise undermined by being so damn over the top when it comes to human interaction. This also applied to Park's Vengeance trilogy and to The Host, albeit to a lesser degree.

I remember having a ton of fun with Zombies Ate My Neighbors and finishing it. Maybe the design was so good that I've forgotten the murderous difficulty of the later levels.

I loved the original TMNT game. It was hard, sure, but wasn't that sort of the point of Konami's Ultra imprint at that time?

And yet, I love that series. But not the Maximus games that were inspired by it. Moving it to 3D didn't help the gameplay.

Deadly Towers was actually a really good game in a lot of respects. It just had horrible, horrible graphics and zero explanation of what you were supposed to do. So I don't blame anyone who hates it.

Me either. To this day I retain a healthy skepticism about whether he was possible to beat straight up.