I really, really hope the noise of Handgun Practice 101 doesn't attract a massive mob of walkers. I know the show hasn't had a scene where someone sets out all the rules of how the zombies work, but I'm betting that firing off a bunch of guns for an hour would attract at least a few of them.

I imagined the catastrophes when the Dome showed up as a Coen Brothers movie, especially the poor woman who gets injured in one car crash and then killed in another one minutes later. Quite looking forward to this book.

…I have now. Damn, that's a strange-ish coincidence.

My standby sick day entertainment was a copy of DESTROY ALL MONSTERS that I taped off TV when I was about ten. That movie and a cup of hot chocolate could probably cure cancer.

I'll see you there next year, I imagine. Tom Savini stopped by this year, because he likes old monster movies and lives in western Pennsylvania. It was fun to watch people's heads jerk around as they realized the guy in the Frankenstein t-shirt walking to the snack bar was internationally renowned.

I love the MST3K theme because it explains the premise in a really lo-fi manner. The show itself was kind of a kid's show for grownups and the theme really helped set the tone in my opinion.

There's a film festival in Pennsylvania called MonsterRama; they show eight movies at a drive-in over two days and "Black Sabbath" was one of them this year. It was astonishing—so much lush color, such wonderfully framed shots (damn near any frame of the film could be a painting), and it's all used to be unsettling…

I hope I'm not repeating anyone's comments, but not enough to comb through 7 pages of them.

I think there's actually a line in the American version about how the coroner couldn't find anything wrong with the body. If the body is mottled, blue, eyes bulging and clouded, jaws open in a silent rictus of  terror and waterlogged but the coroner doesn't see anything wrong with that? Well, first thing you want to…

My favorite part of the Lovecraft interpretation is that the legends about what was going on in the Burkitsville woods don't prepare the three filmmakers for anything. It's just what people had called the bad things that were happening. In the 1700s people believed in witches, so it's a witch. In the 20th century it…

I thought their situation was MUCH worse than just walking in a circle—they walked a given direction (east?) all day and wound up back where they started. Something was playing with them or the world was breaking down around them, and the characters in the film don't notice it at the time at all. Am I remembering that…

They had no right to do that.