Legitimate distinction, but there’s a lot of cultural overlap there.

Yeah, I’m a little older than Wanserski, but the Star Wars benchmark applies even more to those of us who grew up just before the VCR era.

Donald Pleasance should always be remembered as more than James Garner’s blind friend.

This city. Work here. Cop.

Excellent! I knew the AV Club would pull through!

Quinlan has kind of a weird smile at the end that made me think that that she was meant to be the real horrific twist at the end of this version. In the original the kid is terrifying and evil, but as a kid still has a limited frame of reference. He’s toying with and tormenting the people he knows in his small town. I…

“?” really carried that band.

I guess that sort of fits, but it also highlights the subtle difference between a “reboot” and simply buying the rights to a title in a bid to guarantee an audience when your underlying characters and story have little to do with it.

Can’t recall his name (I tend to get him confused with Paul Frees) but he did a lot of voiceovers in the ‘60s. Surely one of the commentariat will know.

I think the word you’re looking for here may be “revival”. I don’t think one “reboots” an anthology series, unless you’re just trolling for toxic internet fandom to abusively complain that “Rod Serling can’t be black!”

I’m guessing someone drew at least a little inspiration from Mel’s Hole.

Now I’m forever doomed to imagine H.P. Lovecraft having the voice of Tina Belcher.

There’s a telling passage in the luridly racist Horror of Red Hook where he notes that the reviled minorities of the place are doomed to suffer predation by the evil cultists in their midst because the police and other authorities are disinclined to pay attention to their suffering. I see this as his xenophobia…

I concur in that I don’t quite agree with O’Neil’s assertion that the setting was more-or-less irrelevant, at least in my own case. I had seen and enjoyed Stripes in the theater, and might very well have liked a subsequent bakery-set film by the same creative team. My friends and I, though, had first encountered…

When we say “vampire” we don’t exactly mean “vampire.”

uneducated and viscous

Tanz der Vampire (eventually and disasterously reworked for a brief run on Broadway as Dance of the Vampires) has been a huge touring hit in Austria and Germany since the late ‘90s. While it’s an adaptation of the Roman Polanski film of the same (in European release) name, I’ve wondered if it might have had its…

I would have paid whatever ticket price they asked just to hear Stallone say: “...the tintinnabulation of the bells, bells, bells.”

Just looked it up to see that you’re right — co-produced the specific track, at least (along with a cover of Meat Loaf’s “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”). Not sure how the labor was divided on the production, though, because that track sounds decidedly over produced to me (however odd that may sound coming from a…

It’s not just a similar feel (though that’s obviously there). “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” and “Total Eclipse of the Heart” feature melodies used in his soundtrack for the movie A Small Circle of Friends (though it’s unclear which came first). The intro to “Holding Out for a Hero” was used in “Stark Raving…