If you're looking for psychologically disturbing horror with a similar familial theme, I'd recommend the novel "A Head Full of Ghosts," by Paul Tremblay.

Funny what works for some folks - I can totally see your complaints re: Oculus, but it really got under my skin - probably the theme of fucked-up parents producing fucked-up, emotionally scarred kids. If you think about it, the scariest thing in that film is Karen Gillan, not the mirror.

AV Club wasn't too keen on Oculus, but it's well worth watching - a nasty little movie with a huge downer of an ending.

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So, I guess no more Other Space, as well? <sigh>

Same here. Jesus, Cryptograms is just a fucking beautiful record - I hate that it always just gets written off as "shoegazey."

Upvoted because any reference to Marathon is welcome!

One of those rare cases where a vocoder actually emphasizes the sadness, rather than detracts from it.

If you're the readin' type, I'd also suggest Steven Levy's "Insanely Great," which covers a similar period, plus dips into what really drove Apple philosophically/ideologically in those days.

Ugh, I Hate Rock 'n' Roll.

STELLAAAA! STELL -

I met him once, singing in the backup choir for one of his productions. A nice man, even if at that point he looked like a wax St. Nick on the run from his display at Madame Tussaud's.

I really liked the last Purge movie, largely because of him. That, and it felt like a John Carpenter-type movie, where the stories are usually boiled-down - "Characters have to get from point A to point B alive. Go!"

Tucker and Dale is a movie with exactly ONE joke.

THAT WAS A WEIRD ONE.

The EP after that first full-length is really good - expands their sound in new and cool ways ("Don't Move" is a great fucking song). Male singer is still the weakest part, though the songs are better.

Really bummed about this. I like his stuff; even when it didn't hit the mark, you could tell there was a clear intelligence and thoughtfulness behind it - each of the failures end up being fascinating in their own ways.

Fun fact: the new guitarist, IIRC, is actually their old guitarist - Dave Schramm played guitar with them throughout the Ride the Tiger era, and left shortly after.

My favorite part of the newest iteration is that editing track data in the main album section (even adding an "e" to the end of the word "the" in a song title) can take almost 2-3 whole minutes after typing/clicking for the change to take (on my 2-3 year old comp, anyway). Change the data from a playlist, and it…