DeLillo's WHITE NOISE. So pretentious. And JG Ballard did it better but he's over there on the science fiction shelves so nobody cares.

I remember in 1982 when it was reported that Spielberg was making a million dollars a *day* from 'E.T.' profits.

Love all (well, most of) those guys. Lansdale's "Night They Missed the Horror Show" I mean what.

Also: there's another movie based on the Sylvia Likens case, AN AMERICAN CRIME, with Catherine Keener and Ellen Page. Haven't seen it. There's another novel too, from the early '70s, LET'S GO PLAY AT THE ADAMS' by a guy named Mendal Johnson (only novel he wrote). It's… interesting, well-written, kinda squicky, no…

The movie isn't nearly as powerful as the novel—would you want it to be?!—but I kinda appreciated it. The sadistic mother is played by Blanche Baker, who you may recall as Molly Ringwald's muscle-relaxed older sister in SIXTEEN CANDLES. She's ok—again, if she'd been better in it the movie would be near-impossible to…

The '90s?

Came here to say that. Read it when it came out 20 years ago and still… *shudder* "Beautifully stomach-churning" is quite apt.

A perfect exploitation film.

If only Jim Anchower had done this. Man I miss Anchower.

I am day-drunk. Get ready to see my dick!

I love the behind-the-scenes anecdote from when Nichols was interviewing Redford about playing Benjamin. Nichols asks Redford, "Have you ever struck out with a girl?" And Redford goes, "What do you mean?"

I've said this before myself! Switched up around the time PULP FICTION came out, I think.

"I was originally going to pick an AC/DC song because I hate them so much"

Denzel as Easy and Cheadle as Mouse was pretty damn terrific.

THE BIG FIX is a charmer to be sure. The original novel is darker but more ridiculous (there's a Satanic cult…) The author wrote a series of mysteries with Moses Wine and it would've been fun to see Dreyfuss play that character again.

I don't know if I've ever been as into an actor as I was into Gary Oldman during this era. Holy shit he was a god.

You don't even know his real name. He's the fucking Lizard King.

You are in for one hell of a Google search.

"does 'Adam Raised A Cain' remind anyone else of early Danzig?"

Thanks to Marlon "the Mumbler" Brando!