Toasted pumpkin seed are great, but only with some toasted-pumpkin-seed spice (salt, sugar, cinnamon) added!

Disagree! Abominable Snowman has tons of atmosphere and menace. Plague of Zombies has some chilling moments. As for the cheap locations, well, you have to use your imagination a little to be scared, but I think of them almost as miniature, haunted fairytale villages and castles. The fact that the sets are so limited…

There is a good region-free blu ray of Brides… really nice to have and plays perfectly in my region a players. Looks good, although it has aspect ratio controversy!!! http://diaboliquemagazine.c…

Yeah, I forgot about Devil Rides Out. So good! There is also the Abominable Snowman. I really love that one. So spooky, with a great use of sound.

Yeah, Dracula in the book is pretty wolfmanish (since he's a swarthy easterner… lots of unintentional[?] racism in the original Dracula!), and this image has never really made it to the screen, as far as I know. Lee gets at least part of it right, with the red eyes and powerful profile. There's actually a great live,…

I like the first one a lot. I love how they put Jon Harker on the attack at the beginning of the film: he already knows about Dracula, and he's actually there to kill vampires rather than negotiate real estate! A nice modern touch to get things moving.

You can get this movie along with 3 of the other Hammer Dracula movies (Dracula A.D. 1972, Horror of Dracula, Taste the Blood of Dracula) in a single DVD set, "4 Film Favorites" for $8 online! They are all anamorphic, with quite decent images.

I think someone still shows these all Halloween long (maybe TCM?) as recently as last year, along with those awesome Val Lewton movies.

Brides is my favorite Hammer film, then probably Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, and Plague of Zombies

I love Dracula 1972 AD and Satanic Rites of. So much fun! And Matt Bright is right: the The Stoneground stuff from the beginning of 1972 AD (along with that whole Laugh-In/Muppet Show style party scene) is just wild, man.

That's a good point regarding Ben Button! I haven't seen it, but I will take your word that it is worthless. I will also say that, if Gone Girl is not satire, then it is stupid. As a thriller, it is ridiculous… just as bad as Shutter Island which also hinges on ridiculous "ripped from the media" woman-monster…

That's a good point regarding Ben Button! I haven't seen it, but I will take your word that it is worthless. I will also say that, if Gone Girl is not satire, then it is stupid. As a thriller, it is ridiculous… just as bad as Shutter Island, which also hinges, in its way, on ridiculous "ripped from the media"…

That's a good point regarding Ben Button! I haven't seen it, but I will take your word that it is worthless. I will also say that, if Gone Girl is not satire, then it is stupid. As a thriller, it is ridiculous… just as bad as Shutter Island, which also hinges, in its way, on ridiculous "ripped from the media"…

Good point about Ben Button! I haven't seen it, but I will trust you that it is a piece of garbage. So, yes, my faith in Fincher isn't entirely justified, and doesn't make an airtight case for my thesis, which is that Gone Girl is pure satire. If fact, I recognize that I could be very wrong about this, and I don't…

Arran, your interpretation is also mine, to some extent. As I mentioned in the spoiler space comments, I believe that this film is kind of a cynical "horror film" designed for someone who maintains a misogynist/MRA perspective (which, the author might argue, is virtually everyone in the U.S.). It's kind of like a…

Coincidentally, I'm also announcing my departure from this cancelled show.

Antione Fuqua? Training Day is all David Ayer. If you want more Training Day, see Harsh Times and End of Watch. More steroid-jacked buddy violence w/ men crying frequently. I am actually a little surprised that Harsh Times hasn't earned a Scarface-like cult reputation. That movie crazy.

Well, it obviously wasn't *rape* rape. (Just throat rape.)

I recently read the Carson bio "King of the Night." It is a great read, although it may not be 100% accurate. If it is even 10% accurate, though, then Carson was about 30% pure wacko, if you can dig those maths.

It's true, @avclub-33235e3d066bad95b6eea457826f7507:disqus . I was in middle school when TCM2 arrived on VHS, and I vastly preferred it to TCM(the original) for years. Part of the reason was because of many of the things that Jenni mentioned in the review (TCM2 is wild, gory, and goofy, which was was exactly what I…