I just relistened after 25 (!) years, and while it doesn’t knock my socks off the way it did in ‘95, MM and the band do a great job highlighting the creepiness of the song, which has always unnerved me, even in the original Eurythmics version. Bonus: the video for MM’s version is a four-minute masterpiece of horror and…

It’s not for everyone, and I don’t mean that in a condescending way at all. It’s certainly not an easy movie to like. Maybe what seems strange to us Possession fans is just how obscure it really seems to be, given how unique and unforgettable it is. I don’t think that’s quite the same thing as feeling that it’s…

I’m surprised to hear that completing Skyrim seems to be so rare. Are we talking about just finishing the main storyline, or are we talking about completing every single quest? Among the dozens of major storylines you can follow (all the guild quests, all the daedric quests, the expansion-related quests, etc.) I seem…

Pleasantly surprised to see Beetlejuice above Ed Wood. I know I loved it as a kid, but I’ve never been sure if Beetlejuice is just a memorable bad movie or if it’s actually a work of genius. Maybe that’s exactly what makes it great?

JW is so good that the main reason I will pay an outrageous ticket price to see Indiana Jones 5 on the big screen this weekend is to hear the Raiders March on a rockin’ sound system. Incidentally, it was also the main reason i saw Indiana Jones 4. I was the only one in the theater who stayed all the way through the…

I suppose it’s fair enough to leave T2 off the list, but I agree, there is something about the CGI in T2 that is way more impressive than any CGI that came before. It’s something about the way Cameron uses it with consummate taste and restraint. For example, the moment in the hospital where the T1000 walks through…

Would you immediately denounce a friend of yours if a few people accuse him of being, what, inappropriate? That sounds an awful lot like 1984 or Cold War-era Eastern Europe to me.

All those things are true, but I find that I’m half bemused by and half sympathetic to the way Event Horizon’s reputation has steeply inclined in recent years. I’m not exactly sure why it has slowly become a cult near-classic. High production values? Some unforgettable images? A fairly nonsensical but nonetheless intri…

If and when AI gets to the point where it is putting the best human writers out of their jobs, then I think we have way, way bigger problems to contend with. We are entering a turning point in human history unlike anything that has come before, and it’s coming far sooner than most of us would have predicted even 5…

That’s interesting, and it does make sense that there is an uncut version, because as supremely disturbing as it is, the original version is actually not extremely graphic.  Heaven help me, I may have to see this uncut version, even though I swore I would never tread in the dark places explored by that movie ever…

Martyrs (2008).  Everyone who has seen that is marked for life.

The AV Club has been hopelessly choked with politics, advertising, and usability problems since the switch to Kinja circa 2016. At least it has been for me, which is why I only check in here once in a blue moon. I assume I’m not the only one who feels that way, considering that the switchover decimated the community…

As movies, neither Blade nor Punisher: War Zone are all that great, but the casting of the leads was so perfect that they shoot right to the top of my list. Why oh why did they not bring back Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle for the TV series?

I think their list and your list covered almost everything for me except Possession (1981) and a few things that are debatable as to whether they’re primarily horror films, like Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989).

Shhh. Nobody is supposed to know about Possession. I feel like Possession is that secret 80s horror masterpiece that to this day very few people, even horror fans, seem to know about. It reminds me of how The Thing was a fairly obscure cult film until approximately the DVD era in the late 90s when it (deservedly)…

I imagine she means it in the same way that half the country these days feels like they only know one person who voted for [Trump|Biden]. It’s those “other” people, who are of course all the same, and so they might as well be one person who is conveniently packaged into the “I don’t care about you or what you have to…

I like it. A little of that old pre-Kinja AV Club snark.

I used to get Baconators all the time too. Eventually I developed gallstones without realizing it, and finally ended up in the hospital with severe pancreatitis and lots of permanent damage. True story.

Jaws is perfect, but so is Raiders. For that matter, something extremely simple but extremely well made like The Blair Witch Project is also perfect. I love all three of those movies, but for me Raiders > Jaws > Blair Witch because not only does it hit the mark perfectly, it aims the highest.

She’s a keeper, that one.