Once again we are called upon to imagine the endlessly patient and efficient team who handle Dorian's laundry.

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade would be a hoot.

The Teke Teke is one of the most terrifying supernatural critters I've ever read about. Our Japanese friends have a real handle on body horror that you don't really find in Western monsters. The modernity of it (and similar creatures) also unsettles me somehow; as if it makes it more disturbing than some ancient…

I am familiar with Scalps! As it happens the chilling electronic soundtrack was done by Drew Neumann, who would go onto to the music for the Aeon Flux cartoon.

I must admit Get Your Hands Off My Woman is one of my guilty pleasure songs.

To be honest the apocalyptic ghost preacher in the sequel haunted my childhood; it may be a pretty unremarkable movie but hot damn Julian Beck makes a memorable villain in Kane.

Stunningly sexy French space vampires that initiate a legion of horror fans into puberty, I hope!

I read a nice piece the other day about the "desecrated burial ground" trope. It points out that there actually isn't one in Poltergeist; they mention a cemetery but it specifically notes that “it's not ancient tribal burial ground.”

Titillation factor.

I found this hilarious in a darkly comic and exceedingly English way. The use of a Bafta statuette as a weapon was just downright cheeky. Reece Shearsmith and Sienna Guillory were two standout minor performances for me in a cast of pure talent. I particularly enjoyed the evocation of Britain in the 70's; you could…

I dunno, Coast Guard?

C.O.P.S. was also a brilliant Hasbro/DiC series that ran for an all-too-brief period in 1988/89. "Bulletproof" Vess wouldn't have stood for this bullshit!

The waif with eyes the size of headlamps was named Justine (in the credits if not onscreen), which is a nice nod to De Sade.

Even dead and bloated he still looked smug.

It's like this place was a real-life "Itchy & Scratchy Land".

Right idea, wrong Widow. Dottie Underwood: Black Widow: Origins, please!

"Back in my day we had to post uphill both ways without any keyboards!"

To be honest I had sometimes wondered about the extras in the cantina scene, and how they could have had no idea what iconic characters they would accidentally create. Actually identifying who they are was one of the really arcane areas of Star Wars fandom back in the day. A lot of them were stuntpeople, or casual…

In my fanon Peggy and Dottie ran off to Florence together and became lesbian murder wives.

Also impeccable taste in hats.