The Last Man On Earth, I Am Legend, Subspecies (Radu at least; his brother Stefan is a proto-Angel), Priest (totally underrated), Darkness (no budget awesomeness), Cronos, Vampyr.

Well, OK, but I think that The Craft is one of the great films and the best witch/sorcery movie ever. It helped pave the way for later franchises in the the 'supernatural / young adult' genre.

This does look cool, a throwback to the stylish nightclubbing vampires of The Lost Boys and The Hunger.

I'm glad that you mentioned Barbara Steele's Princess Asa Vajda from Black Sunday (AKA La Maschera Del Demonio directed by Mario Bava, 1960). Black Sunday is the Wizard of Oz of horror movies, and everyone who hasn't seen it yet should see it now. Imagine Universal horror meets Hellraiser meets frickin' awesome.

I don't think that the problem - the condition that causes strife and dysfunction - is hierarchy as much as it is self-interested hierarchy. That is, if we simply had specialization of labor and one kind of specialist was leaders/administrators/executives, that would be one thing. In practice, those in such…

Kevin Smith got the Stan Lee cameo ball rolling with Mallrats. He may have only had three good movies in him and for the last decade his monologues have been more relevant than his films, but look at what Smith has wrought: 1) the gross-out/heartfelt brand of comedy, 2) a whole genre of making Star Wars references as…

What about purple flies?

Fairuza Balk in The Craft.

I really enjoyed it, as did some other vampire fans. But I can see how some wouldn't. It depends whether you have a taste for comic book/videogame-style genre mash-up.

Total horseshit.

I'll give it a shot, but I'm more looking forward to Stake Land and The Moth Diaries. Sure, it's been a vamp glut for a while, but out of that deluge there are some good ones (Let Me In, Priest) along with the not so good (Cirque du Freak). So the more the merrier.

I totally agree. Compare the treatment of magic in Harry Potter and The Craft, both of them featuring an unknown-to-most magical underside to our mundane world. In HP, it's about credentials and formulae. In contrast, in The Craft there is a transcendence of the everyday in an emotional invocation of a mysterious…

I think that there are two poles of the fantastic (whether the fantastic is called urban fantasy, high fantasy, science fiction, fairytale, supernatural horror, fantastic realism, speculative fiction, paranormal romance etc). One is surreal/dreamlike fantasy and the other is quasi-scientific or 'rational' fantasy. …

She should have developed the premise into a young adult novel about a shy Nazi pseudo-alien girl who falls for a Communist half-ape bad boy in the midst of the American Red Scare in which ape/alien/freaks are feared and persecuted.

Exorcist III scared the living hell out of me - and I was 20 years old! Another notable Dourif-graced movie: Prophecy 3.

I don't know if it's a full-blown genre/sub-subculture, but I'm thinking Tex and the Horseheads, Gun Club, 16 Horsepower, goths in bolo ties, cowboy boots, and cowboy hats. Kind of related to alt country, psychobilly, cowpunk, gothic folk...

It's my impression that the best DC stories are the Elseworlds. Anything not bogged down by continuity, actually, which is one reason why Kick-Ass and other creator-owned superheroes are refreshing.

Is it just me, or are superhero comics cycling through 'revisionist' (gritty, dystopian, dark) and 'restorationist' (Silver Age, unironically heroic, optimistic) phases faster and faster? They have a company-spanning Watchmen/Dark Knight-style 'event' that darkens the Marvel U or DCU and then follow it up with a…

I already said my small piece in defense of Smallville - mostly for being better than Superman Returns, but also for its influence on the comics. But there's something else that strikes me about Smallville. It's the end of an era. The post-9/11 era.

Wearing sweats all day: check. (Especially British chavs.)