That's how I found the book too. It was probably the first solid academic work I had read on horror films, and as fan and a student, it was a major influence on me. I really wish she'd write a follow up to address the changes in the various genres after she popularized the Final Girl theory, but it doesn't sound like…

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Damn you for seeing through my plan!

Its a little hypnotic, isn't it?

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Thank you! I just replied.

Hey, can you drop me a line at commenters (at) jezebel (dot) com? Its nothing bad, I swear!

Hey, can you drop me a line at commenters (at) jezebel (dot) com? Its nothing bad, I swear!

Hey, can you drop me a line at commenters (at) jezebel (dot) com? Its nothing bad, I swear!

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Exactly! And even so, it's not like the reviews were mean spirited. They're funny, clever, or insightful, and really, if the OP wants to make the argument that he was a bitter guy because he didn't like The Human Centipede, well, then there's no hope for the world.

"The female characters were slipped straight into gender binary roles, banging clothes against rocks and peripheral to the main action."

I'll say in theory that Lori's perspective that by cooking and cleaning she was adding some normalcy to a really horrible situation is not terrible. In execution, set amongst everything else that had gone on and the really terrible way Lori (and Carol up to that point) had been handled, my blood basically exploded.

1 — check your local library, a lot of them carry graphic novels these days and you might be able to read the series that way. (PSA from your friendly former librarian)

Aw! That's the nicest compliment I've gotten all day.

As a side note to Black Highlander, I had bet in one of my reviews that Black Henchmen, who shows up in almost every Woodbury/Gov scene but had never been given a line, probably didn't even have a name. Which Talking Dead confirmed in one of the behind the scenes clips last week when the actor was subtitled as 'The…

But he did write movies. Describing him as 'bitter' for doing his job as a critic sort of misses the point of what critics do.

Oh, thank you for that link. I'm a huge fan of Carol Clover's book and her final girl theory, so I always enjoy seeing a mention and discussion of the genre.

I'm so excited!

Killing Mr. Griffith was made into a movie — Teaching Ms. Tingle. A terrible, terrible movie.