My friends, back in the day, liked to have a “by the cover” night where they would pick out videos they’d never heard of, trying to guess the  likelihood that there would be nudity based only on the title and cover art.

If Howie Mandel in Little Monsters gave anyone nightmares, that’s only because they stopped watching before the Frank Whaley nightmares could kick in:

Frank has probably done more (and worse) evil deeds to get them to where they are, but when push comes to shove she’s at least as ruthless as he is. Even so, it might be nice to see one of them actually use a bit of that power they’ve been so relentlessly gathering.

I read somewhere the suggestion that the first shot of next season should be Claire standing over his grave and smirking, and now that’s literally the only way I can imagine it going from here.

Good lord, I expected those to be bad, but wow!

Didn’t Dream team up with the Grant Morrison-era JLA at one point?

Wait, back up a second. Where exactly did that line come from?

Was any of that stuff any good? I love Sandman, but with the possible exception of the Death books none of those spinoffs ever looked remotely interesting to me.

Sweet Mother of Preston Tucker, how I miss that show!

What, is she funny or something?

The fingers-in-the-cigar-cutter bit stuck with me for a loooong time. It was years before I could appreciate the rest of the movie.

I see your point, but somehow it just seems unnatural to have an Aunt May who isn’t like 120 years old.

Let’s not forget when Dafoe crashes his glider through the wall during Aunt May’s bedtime prayers.

I thought the same thing; emo Parker (whatever his faults may be) is a Sam Raimi character to the core.

Ha, I never knew that he did The Quick and the Dead, though every single thing in that clip basically screams “Sam Raimi made this”.

Campbell would have been fantastic in this. It’s a shame that he was never a bigger star than he is, but I’m especially surprised that he never really got a good superhero role.

I always forget how amazing the pink elephant scene is. I could watch that all day.

I’d argue that Spawn was the best we could do in 1997, but yeah, either way that is an astoundingly low bar.

Sounds about right, except I’d say 1997=Spawn.

As I said elsewhere in here, I was actually a fan of hers once upon a time. She used to be a highly likeable mommy blogger /newspaper columnist here in St. Louis.  Soon after the Post-Dispatch fired her, she co-founded the local Tea Party, and her views seem to have been on a pretty steady progression ever since.