Blood Feast (1963) definitely checks a lot of the boxes. I've read histories that make the case that M (1931) or even the granddaddy of horror, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) share certain key elements with what we typically associate with the subgenre. I don't necessarily agree, but it points to how genre…

The "fun parlor game" description was intended to be tongue-in-cheek.

A corollary of Sayre's Law is that academics don't need to be forced into Saw-like circumstances to kill one another; we're more than happy to cut each other's throats.

A fun parlor game to play with film historians/theorists of a certain ilk is to ask what is the first film in the slasher subgenre. Halloween (1978) is a popular choice, and its success certainly led to an explosion of slasher films in the 1980s, but some would point to Black Christmas and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre…

It's strawsome.

I loved her in The Company, but I wouldn't pay $100 even to see Aubrey Plaza or Paget Brewster, and they've been my celebrity crushes de jour for like 3,650 jours.

What a way to hoist your own petard.

Kendrick started getting a little backlash (rightly or wrongly) for complaining on Twitter about a fan approaching her in a drug store and asking her to take a selfie with him. Part of the Internet making you its GF involves the illusion that you're approachable and the Internet might have a chance with you if it…

I think he got better in later seasons. Of course, I always thought that a guy Jon's age who is always taking hell for being a bastard would brood and glower a lot, anyway.

The dragon has three stylists.

He was spotted filming a battle scene in the North the other day:

Mine would be the Itty Bitty Ditty Committee, because I just watched that episode of Bob's Burgers and that song is catchy as hell.

And I think it gave a better sense of how the commentariate often was split about what now will seem like a wildly popular post, giving a false sense of solidarity that often leads to piling on, a hundred-comment deep threads, and other related bullshit. I get the idea of wanting to cut down on negativity, but it…

Downvotes used to be visible, and I dare say they cut down on thread jacks and grandstanding as people could just express their displeasure with a simple thumbs down. They were a more eloquent weapon for a more civilized age. Before the dark times. Before New Disqus.

"There is also the question of just how deplorable the MCU version of the character will be."

Have you read any stories with the Heroic Age version of Purple Man? He's a serial rapist, as well as a murderer.

I wasn't saying he doesn't. Purple Man is pretty deplorable character, however, much worse, I'd say, than any villain that Tennant has previously played, and I'm curious to see how he manages that.

It'll be interesting to see how David Tennant plays Purple Man. It's a pretty dark turn for him.

The line "Hey there mister, you don't get the picture/I'll do a fake out, make out with your sister" in "I'm Han Solo" always cracks me up, and the detailed lyrics of "IG88's '57 Chevy," shows he has a pretty deep knowledge of the Expanded Universe.

I have a lot of affection for him because of his Adult Swim presence: Hesh on Sealab 2021 and MC Pee Pants/Sir Loin/Little Brittle/C-Bag on Aqua Teen Hunger Force. For me it made his voice endearing.