I was really, really surprised the original wasn’t mentioned in this article. Just as “House of Wax” showed off new 3-D technology, “Mystery of the Wax Museum” showed off beautiful 2-strip early Technicolor photography. It’s really good too!

Are you having your stroke in installments?

This makes me happy, because his fans are decidedly NOT three things:

Only one “As Usual” for me - it may not be murder-worthy, but it’s to die for.

It’s DEFINITELY worth watching to compare to the original - you can really see what Carpenter did that was so special.

And ALSO also, I’ve been a huge fan of the 1978 movie for a long time, and I really enjoyed the various callbacks and elements of it in Smallville. And the things that were different, like the Red/Blue Blur. Sometimes it was really inventive, like their take on Bizarro - I guess from reading above that it wasn’t…

ALSO - do you like cute guys? Definitely worth watching if you do - especially when Oliver Queen joins the cast. Holy cow...just having them onscreen together - I’m not usually a ‘shipper, but I sure was for them.

I’d say about 1/3 of the episodes are GREAT, 1/3 fine, 1/3 stupid. So yes - overall, I was really into it and looked forward to it each week.

He’s cutting a swathe through the skeleton crew on duty to get to her, which is kind of chase-y. Though...maybe he’s just killing everyone he can find and sees her by accident. I think the concept is that he’s getting to her, but he may as well be just gruesomely be killing a bunk of nurses and orderlies.

It’s an enjoyable enough continuation of the first, actually, just without the skill, inspiration or artistry (or suspense, honestly). But it has a decent premise and setting, and some elements which work (Laurie being drugged, “Mr Sandman”) - the execution is just uninspired, and the original is SO inspired.

“Halloween” and “any of the Halloween movies” - two very different animals. Like “Jaws” and “Jaws movies”, or “Superman” and “Superman movies”. “Halloween” is a classic for very good reason. 

Haha close, but...I don’t recall the exact reason, but the procedure referenced is actually going shoulder-deep into a cow’s rectum. IIRC, it’s actually to feel and see if there is a little cow growing in there, though it may be a part of the insemination process as well.

My dad was a veterinarian, and while that procedure is pretty gross...meh.

H20!!!!!

That reminds me of watching “Earth Vs The Flying Saucers” on tv when I was a kid, and my sister near-screaming “NOT THE CAPITOL BUILDING!!” when the saucer crashed into the dome

Likewise, I always love a detailed explanation of how Superman didn’t turn the world BACKWARDS to save Lois, in “Superman”, that wouldn’t have made any sense, but what he actually did was...

70's kid here, who had fundie parents! And was forbidden from reading ALL comic books, for some reason. But had an uncle a couple years older than me, who was allowed to do and see anything he wanted, who had a trunk full of Marvel comic books that we’d pore through when I’d visit him at my grandparents.

I just started watching this from the beginning, on Netflix. I’d caught the odd episodes here and there in the last couple of years and thought it was great - and it is!

That’s the first thing I thought of too. I love it when absurd jokes like this are revealed to be...pretty close to the real thing.

I felt exactly the same way about “Mulholland Drive” the first time I saw it, exactly, like my mind opened up and took it - like my whole being took it in. I didn’t have any desire to see it again for about twenty years, because I didn’t want to affect that experience. Finally I did, when it played at a revival…