Very interesting. I wrote a Mennonite horror script. Maybe I should run it by them for some neckbearded coverage.

My own choice is the Halloween pictures, despite the wild variation in quality. I think the first NOES is a terrific little movie, the second one is interesting, the third one is fun (snuck, underaged, into the theatre with some friends to see that one, and boy was that a blast), and then it drops precipitously in…

Kids, dress instead as Bumfield.

I hope he presented them in the time-honoured Times Square knockoff vendor fashion by pulling up his sleeve to show all five watches strapped on his arm.

Does he talk about how William Peterson is the most bowlegged actor in Hollywood?

“Fuck it,” she thinks. “I’ll just go see the Mountain Goats at the Bowery Ballroom.”

Remember, SoHo’s in New York! The London area is simply Soho. Picky picky, I know, sorry.

Or the intermingling of horror and humour, don’t forget.

I’m certainly glad Halloween won over Scream. I liked the first Scream, but find the series a little bit bland. I’ve seen them all, but, with the exception of the first one, I can’t remember, nor care to remember, who the killer(s) were or what their motivation was. I tend to like a bit of tomato paste in my…

I’m about that age too. My high school rock band had a song called “Kenneth, What Is the Frequency?” five years before Monster came out! That’s astounding enough, but Game Theory had a song called “Kenneth, What’s the Frequency” two years before us, so maybe it’s not so astounding. Anyway, poor Dan Rather!

I guess I do see it that way - I was a faithful purchaser of R.E.M. records from Life’s Rich Pageant, which is when I discovered them (and of course bought up the preceding albums tout suite) right through to this one, which I liked a lot and still do, but something about it said to me “I need never buy any subsequent…

He may not have been good in a technical sense (though on the other hand, people praise his Lennie), but I find him a compelling performer.

When you watch those old Universal wolfman pictures, it’s striking how constantly agonized Lon Chaney Jr. is. He’s a smiley rapscallion in the first one until Bela puts a biting on him, and then after that it’s all “Please kill me, I just want to die, grr graw wrrrfff!” He’s even like that in the Abbott and Costello…

Oliver North.

Midsommar is a much too obvious choice, it seems to me.

Maybe he’s just such a terrible director of actors that the first forty takes are terrible, and the process is justified merely by finally achieving a serviceable take.

Wholeheartedly agree!

Maybe he was in more than one episode, but I recently rewatched the Uncle Hanks episode and he was a fugitive from justice, not an alcoholic.

I worked in the movies for many years. Once my hand was even used in a close up when the actor wasn’t around, firing blanks for the camera.

He was good in a killer insect movie called Ticks. 66 is much too young, sorry to hear this.