The wilhelm scream isn't funny. Those characters are dying

Was going to make a joke-post about Judy Blume (happy birthday!) fighting Beverly Cleary in a Pay-Per-View event, only to discover Cleary passed away in 2021 at the age of 104(!), and was married for 64 years(!).

We've moved from "turning over a rock to see the insects squirming underneath" to going full-on, HELLRAISER style "peeling the flesh off our diseased society to show all the tumors festering beneath." Great times.

Sam Raimi returns to horror (sort of) and comedy (sort of), but the results are maddeningly mixed. My spoiler-free review of SEND HELP:

As death continues to trend, I've got some bad news about all the people we grew up loving and admiring...

Coffy (1973) Directed by Jack Hill and starring Pam Grier.

Petition for all so-called "experimental" films to not exceed 70 minutes.

Download or die!

Kolchak The Night Stalker (TV Series 1974–1975) Starring Darren McGavin Theme music composed by Gil Mellé

Throw Yo Momma from the Train

Anyone remember the bugs in Guerrilla War and Ghostbusters for NES where the game would give you infinite lives (for the former) and immunity from ghosts (on that tedious staircase level)?

Everyone is in the Epstein Files, because

That horrific feeling when you see the worst person you knew in high school not only married their high-school sweetheart, but decided to reproduce (multiple times) and is really into God now.

Be wary of folks who insist they can improve your social media presence but have no presence themselves.

How about a Mike Flanagan/Frank Darabont steel cage match instead of a new version of THE MIST?

The Life of Upchuck

It's all getting so silly now...

To those playing Sick New World: be sure to make the most of your 5 - 15 minutes of stage time.

Thinking of buying one of those little glasses of water people have on their bedside table

Me in the Criterion Closet: wow Hollow Man, what a film Criterion employee: you aren’t allowed to bring movies in Me in the Criterion Closet shaking my sleeves in an odd way: wow Hollow Man 2, what a film

Laughing at all these idiots betting on the 2026 Super Bowl. The real money is in betting on the 2025 Super Bowl. Guaranteed result = guaranteed profit.

I feel like Green Day left my musical orbit sometime in 1995, after MTV and FM radio played 'Basket Case' for the billionth time.

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION is such an underrated* Tobe Hooper flick. Messy on a multitude of levels, but thematically compelling (tragic, even) as Brad Dourif sells the hellish pain of a guy with a literal fire raging inside.

UNSANE (2018) - Best Actress: Claire Foy

Starting to think "Schlitz Presents The Awful Redneck Halftime Show" was never going to happen, and was designed solely to court online outrage.

THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL is good stuff.

anyway whenever I think of Kid Rock - after "he sucks" "piece of shit" and "he's older than I am and still wants to be called "kid""- I remember somebody who ran into him in person once said "he smells like he looks."

They Live We Click

This Guy '28

Let the deluge of Bandcamp Friday emails commence!

Happens to the best of us

Same. VI was bad enough.

Any rad Industrial/Goth and/or otherwise electronic acts I should know about in the name of the all-mighty Bandcamp Friday? (Those with physical releases get preferential treatment.) All recommendations appreciated.

PERDITA DURANGO (De la Iglesia, 1997)

Feces of Death

The nothingest-burgers somehow get the most bites.

I should've shot up a flare in the theater...

ChatGFY

Luc Besson's Uwe Boll's DRACULA

There's nothing more American than going outta your way to watch TV ads. It's weird yeah.

Going to treat myself to some SEND HELP after work.

My posts are angry lately. Grrrrr

I don't think I'd have any idea who Gavin Newsom was if Bluesky didn't bring him up every fucking day.

It's okay to say guys like Scorsese and Kubrick and even the fucking Super Safdie Bros have made a bad movie in their careers. Really, fear of karmic retaliation puts the odds of getting struck by lightning for expressing such an opinion at 1/100 kajillion. I checked.

No, I'm not interested in your "ride a bike" urban privilege sticker sheet, popular webcomic.