“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…
A lot of really crappy movies came out in the ‘80s. A lot of really great movies came out in the ‘80s. A fair number of movies came out in the ‘80s that were somewhere between crappy and great. And then. And then there was this week’s movie. This week’s movie is just… it’s just……
Pet Sematary | It | Children of the Corn | The Mist Baddie: A clown. Lesson: Fear is scary. For the next installment of Shame September, I get to watch Stephen King’s It. I consider myself fortunate that I never sat through It as a young ‘un, that I have the privilege to sit down and enjoy it in my…
I thought I’d get into the spirit of List Week here on Rooster Illusion by delving into one of my favorite sub-genres of anything ever–musical SciFi. Now, when I say SciFi I do mean a pretty wide range of things, but, here we go. 1. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog (2008) Do you have 45 minutes? How…
If you were anything like me as a child, you likely frequented the cable movie channels alone, searching desperately for some horror movie that you knew, were your parents around, that you would be roundly punished for watching. The opportunity to have a young imagination stretched beyond its somewhat benign capacities and into a world…
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