I'm guessing that Tobe Hooper wasn't in the guild at the time, which probably allows some sort of loophole.

Hell I had no idea the South still had "dry counties".

As it stands I was pleasantly surprised by the Justified Finale. I feared it was heading down a different path in the final season, kind of doing an About Face Breaking Bad Style.

You forgot Pennywise the Dancing Clown from the It trailer thread back in April.

I don't think his career has guttered that far to resort to porn.

nothing gets me harder than Stephen King describing people pissing and shitting their pants in fear.

The story was another classic King story. Ridiculous premise made creepy because as he's writing it Stephen King almost seems to believe this shit can ACTUALLY happen.
Also descriptions of bodies being folded and pressed into a pile of guts is so gruesome it circles back around to being scary.

Could be that South Africa is a piss poor substitute for Maine. Also the story is a disaster in trying to expand the original short story. There wasn't exactly a lot of meat on that bone to begin with, ya know?

I still feel unsettled thinking about Jack Sparrow's sidekick as all those different carnival barkers who no one seems to notice are the same guy.

Too bad Disney wasn't under Eisner yet or else they probably could have snatched Hooper up to direct the adaptation of Something Wicked This Way Comes. That would have been great.

How come so many bearded Eastern European filmmakers come off as degenerate scumbags? Is it just me? They seem to all make repulsive un-enjoyable films that they excuse by saying the film is a "commentary on media violence" or some other bullshit. At least when Oliver Stone said that about Natural Born Killers the…

Wait, what? I guess I'm glad this guy is just a name I've heard over the years and not someone whose work I've actually seen.

I'm pretty sure the last time that defense actually worked was when Hunter S Thompson published Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 45 years ago.

Salem's Lot miniseries was way more respectable than I'd imagined.

It made me wonder if in the 80's there was an assumption that anything in the fridge is up for grabs, even a pristine birthday cake or Grandma's Lactaid milk.

Always considered this one of my favorite Spielberg films. It appears that Spielberg had Hooper around to make sure the movie was scary, and who better to advise than the Texas Chainsaw Massacre guy, right?
Of course, I highly doubt Spielberg would have hired Tobe Hooper post Texas Chainsaw II (and I adore that flick)…

I think you weren't reading close enough. The final form is still an illusion, one of the characters can almost see the true form shimmering behind the spider thing. Apparently the final form is just an entity made of pure energy and light, and in a Lovecraftian touch our puny little human minds cannot comprehend its…

Except they aren't putting anything from the first volume into the movie. Nice try, though.

Gravity was so short I decided why bother and turned it off halfway through. Life's too short.

Not for this movie though.