It's the latter. Don't get me wrong, "games journalism" is an incestuous mess and borderline oxymoron, but even if you were really passionate about that, I have a hard time believing GamerGate is the hill you'd choose to die on. It's not at all unusual to see people arguing that it's all about journalistic ethics…

With the pro-sports ones, I assume you can actually just run the numbers or ballpark it. Those things are recorded and searchable online. Were it me, though, I feel like I'd just pull something out of my ass for the preposterous ones.

There are 10, I believe. And nearly 3 good ones!

This weekend, I'll probably see The Babadook and It Follows to catch up on the modern stuff, but I'll also do:

I think it's important to keep a distinction between "disgust" and "horror."

Yeah, I get that. My point is that it's a largely unimportant semantic distinction when his meaning is clear.

For a lot of people, the ultimate test of horror and comedy are "scary" and "funny," respectively, which are ultimately almost impossible to analyze and discuss in any sort of objective way. Either you jumped/laughed or you didn't.

Something like Chronicle is mostly sci-fi, and Project X is a comedy. Wikipedia reveals a few dozen other examples, although I tend to agree that there are things about found footage — mostly its ability to suggest events happening off-screen — that makes it uniquely suited to horror. This is kinda why I would call…

I don't know that "propaganda" films even really count as a genre. Every one I've seen was actually something else — war/thriller/pseudo documentary — with an obvious agenda woven in. Except maybe in the docs, if you excised the propaganda element, usually by making the villains more generic, there's still a movie…

That's the first thing I thought of. That show is about a plucky orphan that moves in with a nice old guy, for fuck's sake. It's basically an Annie remake, except for this one episode where all her friends are aggressively vivisected.

If I ever have to explain Gotham's tonal inconsistency in one sentence, it will be "There was an adult woman on the show whose parents named her 'Kris Kringle,' and she was post-coitally choked to death by her stalker who had just confessed to stabbing her abusive ex in a back alley."

At this point, its primary value is watching Chiklis play Not Vic Mackey!! as hard as possible. Having him moralize so relentlessly about procedure can't possibly be anything but an ironic callback, right?

Agreed on both counts. The racial profiling thing bugged me, too, because we just saw her get a stack of other clients. She indicates that she forfeited her class action option, so what's the plan for the other dozen defendants? Did she get all security footage forever? Is she going to go through it and prove each…

I was thinking about this just before the scene as a bunch of glorified extras were getting gnawed to death. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last character who was introduced in Season 1 or 2 to die was Beth? Who was pretty minor, all things considered.

The Invisible Man is my favorite of the Universal monster movies. He's somehow the most unrepentantly evil of the bunch, and the special effects really do hold up in a way that most others of the time don't.

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High Tension/Switchblade Romance made me viscerally angry. I vote that one for "most badness in a modern horror movie."

They're not timeless works of art or anything, but they hold up a lot better than the "more mature" Fear Street series for young teens. You could usually at least count on some kind of wacky premise shenanigans in the Goosebumps books, but the Fear Street books are almost always about a murderer, and it's almost…

It's weird that you'd shoot down the Babadook but pull for the Conjuring, which I'd call the real most overrated horror movie of the past decade. It's competently shot. It adds nothing to the hundred or so haunted house/possession movies that have come before it.

If we're doing recommendations, non-English, non-Japanese world horror seems to get shafted a lot on these kinds of lists because they take a while to get U.S. release dates, in the rare cases when they actually do. Just from what I saw this year, Egypt's The Blue Elephant, South Korea's Thirst and the Tamil Pizza…