Friends, we are gathered here today to mourn the passing of Rooster Illusion, which I killed. July 12, 2018: “That’s right, folks. After six years–holy shit, ten years if you count its origins as a column in a college newspaper–I’m laying this old bird to rest.” —Rooster Illusion: Closing Time, the last post on this…
Look, I don’t watch a ton of TV[1]. It takes a lot to get me invested in a TV show, because it is a considerable time commitment, and if I plan on devoting that many hours of my life to watching something, it had better be good[2]. So far this decade, I have only watched…
Last week, before exploring the dark, dark place known as the two live action Scooby-Doo movies, I gave a brief review of Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, a 1998 straight-to-video film that just about singlehandedly revived the franchise after—depending on how you count and how you feel about A Pup Named Scooby-Doo—about two decades of stagnation.…
“It was a tumultuous time for our nation. The clear beverage craze gave us all a reason to live, the information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek, and the domestication of the dog continued unabated.” Homer Simpson’s concise scene-setting of the early 1990s is only somewhat corroborated by the…
Stop motion animation has so much potential in its use for horror, as Tim Burton and Laika have shown us their films. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, puts its stop motion animation to a different use, for a more comedic and quirky, though nonetheless Halloween-y film. This is the second time that Wallace…
In 1969, Scooby-Doo captured the hearts and imaginations, etc., of children all over the world, or at least definitely in America. As I discussed in last week’s instalment, the original two season run of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? built a dynasty of mystery-solving fun on a foundation of predictability and repetition, as well as a…
Baddie: I mean, the House of Usher. It’s in the name. Lesson: The Usher line is tainted, Mr. Winthrop. Octoberween is a time for reflection. SciFridays is now /horror, the leaves are changing (but not in Texas) and I’m trying to be good at Twitter. (Follow me on Twitter @slash_horror!) It seemed appropriate, then, to theme…
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