Just a few thoughts:   @avclub-7aee1b75b527e215f31e20a5c4e7a768:disqus :  That shot you loved which gave us Lana's POV of the wall behind her bed as she averts her eyes from her child:  I didn't record this, but I remember it as being "flipped" upside down to what her true view would be, so that the crucifix above her…

So secret…that even HE didn't know it!  (Naw, if he was a genius he wouldn't have guffed-up so badly in the first place.  I'd put my bet on disorientation and ineptitude —rather than imagine the writers were gonna give us a character that is a staple of sitcoms, and virtually absent from reality.)

Justifurred.  (If Raylan had shot the manbeardrugpig, he would'a mounted the head(s) in his bar.)

I, too, was born a snake handler and I'll die a snaAAAAAAAAA —SHIT HE BIT ME!!  THE FUCKER BIT ME!!  I…I…call the…somebody…I can't feel the…getting hard to…fnuuuuuuuuuuuuu (thud)

Also in the land of Angina Dentata:  Chris on "Northern Exposure," terrified that (because he thought he was going to die young) avoided the dentist for so many years —and then,ultimately, being forced to, um, bite the bullet and make amends.

Jestified.  Now with 20% more punchlines.

Also used in the commercial for Schick's "Terminatehair 2-Track Razor," which featured the key line:  "I'll grow back!"  (I kid…lamely; thanks for giving Kaiser the 411.)

@Dr. Clint Handsome:  Hi.  Yep.  And the expressionist SETS "allowed" Mitchum to give one of the (literally) BIGGEST performances of his life —florid line-readings and wild postures and poses that Kubrick would have applauded.

The Film Syntax Nazi says:  "Harumph —I don't think there was actually a 'split screen scream fest'; rather, it was an INTERCUT scream fest."  ('Least, that's how I's 'member it.)

Yeah, this movie is filled with awesomesauce.  That its low budget is turned into an advantage through the use of all kinds of "stage tricks" (like all the silhouettes, false horizons, and "fake-but-heightened" expressionist sets) reveals Laughton-the-tonal-magician to the max.

Well…you might go wrong, were you to misspell it.  Otherwise, not bad.

My right hand holds LOVE for this movie, and for your carrying it into the light. My left hand, my SINISTER hand, is trembling with HATE that you forgot to mention what may be the film's most iconic image:  The dreamily eerie subaqueous Model T-tomb of Winter's sad widow Willa.  Oooo, such shivers!

Dibs on "The Comet Zombies" as my new band name!

Truly.  C-PLUS is the kind of grade you give to the stupidest kid in class —THAT YOU WANT TO ENCOURAGE TO KEEP TRYING.  Is that what we really want?

Well…Grace is probably b(r)east-feeding, so maybe that will be the source of the titsturbance (—genetically altered milk-puddles? —like the screaming blood in "The Thing"?).  Also:  I've always thought the alien's in-spilling light had a milky (way) luminescence to it; so maybe we'll get some forced extraterrestrial…

When Doc Arden was asked if the aliens had come to the near-death wake, I thought it was nifty that he replied:  "There was no visitation."  (In the Bible, that's the term used for when the "Virgin" Mary, pregnant with Jesus, visited someone in her family —her cousin Elizabeth, who was also with child…as is Lana.)

Keep it priceless, E.B. —and have lots of joy in the new year!

Lucky fuckin' crossdapondin' bastard…(grumble)

"I'll have what SHE'S having!  (—mmm, a sex child!)"

"I'll have what SHE'S having!  (—mmm, a sex child!)"