Given when my toddler goes to bed, and how tired my wife and I are at that point, watching a 3.5 hour long R-rated film isn’t really an option without a babysitter. That said, I was very ill on Thanksgiving, and stayed home while my wife and son were gone - so I got through the film in a sitting and I’m glad I had the…

The movie still holds up! Especially the great looking dragon.

I also saw Return to Oz when I was 9! I wasn’t scarred either, though in revisiting it a few years ago, the early scenes involving electroshock therapy are uncomfortably (or delightfully?) infused with dread. And it’s funny that a film which is ostensibly returning Oz to its roots in the books (the script does a good…

One thing was that the mother in Ohio (who has the “sighs”/heavy breathing of Elena Markos in the original film) says something to the effect that she’s released a stain upon the world (Susie). That’s what had me thinking along the lines of Susie being Suspiriorum before she even comes to Berlin.

You mention the big reveal about Susie in your introduction, but I wish you had talked to Kajganich more about that to get some clarification - my wife and I were arguing over this for the rest of the night and into the next day. I saw it that she was a kind of rebirth of the Mater Suspiriorum, and that perhaps there…

Ahhhhh, thanks for the history lesson.

The constant references to Wisconsin Dells on MST3K never cease to delight my wife and I (we live not far from there). In fact, I came here to mention MST3K because it seems every time I rewatch an old episode, I get another joke I didn’t before. I believe in some of the old episodes they say, “Slowly I turned...step…

Though I understand it’s very important to once again discuss Pete Davidson’s relationship with Ariana Grande in an article that’s not about that.

I mean, topic sentences, people. I learned this in high school English.

I’m trying to wrap my head around this article about Pete Davidson going after Chevy Chase beginning with the words, “We’ve got nothing against celebrities falling in love here at The A.V. Club...”

Right. I suspect that’s the direction he’s going for (making the red pop by contrast - I got that feeling more in the shorter trailer) but we’ll see. Either way, I definitely get a potent, occult atmosphere and mood out of this that makes me very interested.

Exactly. There is no point to a remake if it’s trying to be identical to the original. It MUST separate itself and try to give us a new take on the original idea.

Matt Berry doing a voice ensures I’m going to watch this no matter what. “Whiskey!”

My wife and I only started watching his show on this last season, because we didn’t get Fusion and never knew about his public access show until we saw him perform stand-up a couple years ago (and loved it). The show also exposed us to so many great bands in this last season, and my playlists are grateful. I can…

“#director.” Excellent hashtag deployment on that Tweet.

Also, every theme park: slathered in vomit.

As a kid, I LOVED every time Arcade and Murderworld came up in a storyline. Of course, I was a kid. Though I still like its appearance in Excalibur (my favorite X-title of the time) with the Alan Davis art.

Ah, true that.

It was kind of insulting that they included a Joe Hill book in this list in the first place. Joe Hill is great. Let’s treat him as a separate human being from his father.

Philip K. Dick was INCREDIBLY prolific and there’s a huge amount of material that hasn’t been touched. So...odd example to go to. He has been dead since the early 80's, though, so yeah, that hurt his output.