The Monster Squad was my gateway to horror as a kid, and for the most part, I would say it serves that role well for kids who are intrigued by but a little too scared to watch real horror. (My parents had previously tried to show me The Lost Boys, and that did not work out well at the time.)

Probably a little too gruesome for scaredy cats. I was a huge horror coward as a kid, and it wasn’t until I was in my early 20s I was able to watch those movies. I love them now, but I had to build up my gore tolerance to get there.

As much as I grew to eventually love John Clare (the monster’s eventual chosen name), I never got over how he killed poor Proteus in that first episode of Penny Dreadful. That moment upset me.

I’d love to see remakes of the classics in the same vein as that one, but no, not in a shared universe.

Classic Invisible Man is a great film, but it loses a lot of horror weight when you think about how this dude is just causing all this murder and mayhem while running around butt-ass naked. (In winter, no less.)

I’d say it’s more like he used the heist/court drama formats applied to a biopic. He did a very clever take on a biopic, which is why it feels so different from other biopics (something I noticed when I was watching, but I couldn’t exactly explain why), but it’s still ultimately a biopic.

In general, I am a strong supporter of using a mix of sweet and tart apples in pies and other baking. Sometimes, you have to make do with what you can get at the store, but it’s a fairly easy bet to find Grannies and Galas, both of which will mix well in baking. Braeburn and Jazz are also ones I can commonly find and…

I would likely put Usher at #3 in both lists. Just slot it right into the middle.

I am one who usually does not go for stuff when there are few sympathetic characters (the characters are a big reason why I’ve loved past Flanagan series). I really did like this one. I didn’t love it, but I still think it was quite good. (Also noting that a big part of my enjoyment was how it played with Poe stories.…

Others may disagree, but I do think that this series is fairly strong throughout. I like Hill House and Bly Manor more, but it’s probably qualitatively better than Bly. It also sticks its landing better than Hill. (I will refrain from going into the details why out of respect for spoilers.)

I don’t think the WHOLE of the ending is terrible. The part that frustrates me most is the fact that the show seems to forget that the house is a malevolent force that is consuming the souls of those who have died there. (It’s very much like a sister-house to the hotel in The Shining as it’s depicted in Flanagan’s…

I didn’t love the ending of Hill House, but Mass was so damn bleak that I generally still rank Hill above it. I don’t think I could bring myself to rewatch Mass, but I can see myself rewatching Hill. I have to say that pretty much all of Hill House up to the very end was just so fucking outstanding that I can rewrite…

If I were to give rankings based on quality (excluding Usher since I haven’t watched it yet), it would be:

I think they were just covering his TV shows. His other output is all movies. There are ranking lists out there you can find that factor all of those in with his TV shows. (For example: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/mike-flanagan/mike-flanagan-horror-movies-ranked-tv-series-netflix-house-of-usher-amazon)

Agreed (obviously excluding Usher, since I haven’t seen it yet). I did actually enjoy Midnight Club more than Midnight Mass, but I also begrudgingly acknowledge Mass’s superiority in actual quality over Club, and thus I would keep their rankings the same.

I feel like the 20+ episode season was always a lot and really doesn’t make the same sense in this current TV landscape where a lot of shows want to have season arcs.

I see way too much of myself (warts and all, so to speak) in H&CF’s Cameron. It’s what helped make her character so easy for me to love while also so easy for me to criticize.

Insomnia definitely aren’t dry. In fact, they are very moist. (I love them, but I might cook them for 30 seconds more.)

Caitlin Doughty has a great video about this whole thing for anyone interested in the real story:

Or if you’re crafty enough and have the supplies, you can knit/crochet a Swiffer cover that you reuse. It doesn’t have to look pretty. It just has to get the job done, and it’s a great way to use up that partial ball of yarn in a weird color you bought for that one specific project a few years ago and have never found…