Insanity Fair (Thackeray)
Our Mutual Fiend (Dickens)
Can You Forgive It? (Trollope)

The Triffid of Wildfell Hall

Howard's Bloody End (EM Forster)
Even More Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Pygmalion, or, the Modern Prometheus (Shaw)
Sons and Vampire Lovers (Lawrence)
Of Inhuman Bondage (Maugham)
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)
A Farewell to Arms and Legs (Hemingway)
In Search of Lost Time Machines (Proust)
Ethan Frome's Bloody…

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cat People

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Werewolf

Steppenwolf vs. the Vampire Women

Billy - Ever been to the coast that stretches from TJ down to Ensenada? That's basically what happened.

British women, now there's some savage cunny!

I thought it was all the damn vampires. And the cousins from Stranger than Paradise wound up there in the end; they probably infected the whole country with the Jarmusch Long Take virus.

Sorry, I was trying to parody Welsh's phonetic writing style. Of course I haven't read any of his books in nigh on a decade (had a girlfriend with a Trainspotting the Movie-derived "Scottish novel" fetish), and as my post above indicates, I have no idea what British accents sound like outside of television.

That's something I've always wondered about - does a wooden stake's anti-vampire effectiveness come from its woodenness or its pointyness? I mean, would any sharp object (sword, knife, lawndart) do, or does it have to be an MLB regulation ashwood 2x2? Or are vampire hunters just going for the most economical (wood…

Yes. One of her earliest roles was in Total Recall.

Ah raimembur boot wain Trenspootin' caim oot, twair soom tosser article ain film magazin aboot Ewan MacGregor ovairdoobin' his pairt fair t'Amairican market.

How does the continuum of brogue thickness function up there? Is it a Highlands/Lowlands thing? Upper class/Lower class? Is Edinburgh worse than Glasgow or vice versa? Or is it all the same and actors from London overdub the speaking parts when films come up for export?

MIRACLES, Bizitches!

She's just one of those wonderful actresses who just can't seem to keep her clothes on. The Kate Winslet of her day, if you will.

The word "subcontinent" was basically invented by the British to describe India (Hey, we run a subcontinent, not just some random part of Asia!), which is separated from the rest of the continental mass of Eurasia by the tallest mountains in the world. Africa would be an island continent like Australia except for an…

About the best thing one can say about Roeg is that he treated barely legal white women and black (er, Aboriginal) men equally exploitatively.

The t's in the last name were kind of silent ("Ah-Guhr"), but that could have just been Adrian Moffat's unbelievably thick Scottish brogue.

I thought that WAS the point of the movie. Seriously, before the advent of home video (and later internet) porn, how much of so-called "Art Cinema" was just a tarted-up excuse to show boobs (or bush, if the director was Italian…digression, but as a result of this fact, I still get an expectant semi from seeing the…