It is so funny that the history of superhero comics is editorial ending or erasing relationships with women to keep the core premise an adolescent male power fantasy and developing a huge and loyal gay audience as a result. Every single time.

I promise you, PROMISE you, given that the Peter/MJ will-they-won't-they has still persisted for the past 20 years, that the outcome of the SPIDER-MAN: ONE MORE DAY comic book sequel is gonna be to erase that they had ever been in a relationship at all.

I wish I could even pretend I had to think about this, but I had a conservative dad in the mid-2000s and it is absolutely without question AN AMERICAN CAROL.

One of the greatest updates to the mythology made in Ang Lee's Hulk is that Thunderbolt Ross hates Banner just as much before he's Hulk as after. He's just immediately and for all time like "fuck that kid."

I love an unsung movie and I want to be fully on the Ang Lee's HULK train but the comic book paneling is WAY too fucking much. (and I don't mean the idea of it, it is truly just the amount)

On the grounds that if I go out like that, I want it to be a weird one.

I'm so fucking happy about this: Thor Hulk.

I'm in fuckin' Heaven with this season of X-MEN '97. You're telling me we're finally doing The Brood after censoring them right outta the OG show *and* as a result we're doing THE THING with the Weapon X crew?

My only George Lucas AI take is that he obviously knows he's not telling the truth, like a lot of people who have come out in favor of it in the past month or so, by waiting until it was very publicly collapsing before sharing his opinion that it's "inevitable."

I am only interested in the opinion of that one Letterboxd account.

It is so funny after all this time to have the first BATMAN PART II teaser just be Batman kind of slightly turning around.

Reeves' BATMAN movies need to be held up as the example for the de-universing of superhero films. We need to return to the old ways, but with the cultural awareness and acceptance of these characters and concepts that we gleamed from the cinematic universe era.

Do I think it would actually happen? No, not at all. But since I actually do this now, it feels dumb to post my Evil Dead pitch here.

So THIS is what it feels like to bring your number one all-time passion project to life.

My only George Lucas AI take is that he obviously knows he's not telling the truth, like a lot of people who have come out in favor of it in the past month or so, by waiting until it was very publicly collapsing before sharing his opinion that it's "inevitable."

"It's like poetry, it here are web results for poetry what else can I assist you with today"

I will always love that Wes Craven put all of his knowledge of horror and myth and the collective unconscious into creating A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET but the inspiration for the surname was literally "If you thought Krug was bad, this guy's even Krueger."

If a new ELM STREET is only taking the original into account that seems like a damn fine excuse to bring back Heather Langenkamp.

Saw discourse regarding Hitler appearing in old cartoons. Anyway, shout out to Albert Band who stopped Hitler from directly appearing in the PUPPET MASTER franchise at least twice. That's more restraint than Spielberg!

oh no he's back

Almost everything Flanagan has ever done is a 10/10 for me, but one of the most fascinating and frightening things about CARRIE is that Margaret White wanted more than anything in the world to kill her daughter the moment she was born and has been trapped and frozen in that emotion ever since.

All of the Sam Neill posts and anecdotes today are making me genuinely happy but also reminding me that we gotta normalize doing this while people are alive.

I've been adamant that I'm only interested in this if it's a HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE or FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER kind of "adaptation," and while the images do seem to suggest different, I'm happy to have confirmation from Flanagan that that is in fact what he's doing.

Taking this moment to say EVENT HORIZON is actually good. Every reason you think may stop it from being good is a reason why it's good. Every logic gap blockbusters shouldn't have is a feather in its cap. The most European-coded '90s American space epic. It's like New Frontier French Extremity.

No. Fuck you. I'm not even entertaining the thought of losing Sam Neill. You can't have him.

I have just seen the final cut of my film. I am the single most biased person on the entire planet but man I am so proud of this thing. I love it so much.

The fact that there’s an ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING remake starring Sabrina Carpenter that nobody saw is one of those things that sounds completely made up, but nope, it’s true.

Getting some more of these old X-MEN pieces back online. This was just a fun one originally for That's Not Current going through my favorite villains. medium.com/@nbrehmer/x-...

My biggest hope for DOOMSDAY is that they're actually doing a GALAXY QUEST bit, specifically with James Marsden as James Marsden from JURY DUTY playing the role in desperate hope that nobody finds out he's not actually Cyclops.

I can't rank the EVIL DEAD movies because, 1, I haven't seen BURN yet, but more importantly, 2, I absolutely could not tell you which one is my least favorite. Quality across the board. My favorite, though, is the original.

A sizable portion of CURSE OF THE PUPPET MASTER is just "The Pinhead Movie." That's a feature, not a bug.

Got this old article back online. In 2019, before DARK PHOENIX came out, I wrote this piece about why it's so hard to do the Dark Phoenix Saga on film. Nothing has happened to contradict it since. medium.com/@nbrehmer/wh...

The Great Roger Ebert would've killed me for saying this, but we need to bring back "boob" as an insult. Old timey villains were right, we silenced them, and now the whole world is run by incompetent boobs.

With more recent sequels in long-running series opening to split reactions, soon my friend, soon it will be your time to be included in the conversation for most consistent horror franchise.

It's very unpleasant to watch every billionaire transparently speedrun the end of the world, straight up explicitly plotting the collapse of every industry, just so that they can be the person who dies with the most money.

Dracula - Bram Stoker The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson IT - Stephen King Boy's Life - Robert McCammon Ghost Story - Peter Straub The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Ghoul - Brian Keene Lost Souls - Poppy Z. Brite The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum

With more recent sequels in long-running series opening to split reactions, soon my friend, soon it will be your time to be included in the conversation for most consistent horror franchise.

Do you think Tobe Hooper was pissed when one year after TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 Sam Raimi was like "Not enough people saw the humor in the first so I'm gonna make the sequel an outright comedy" and it became an immediately beloved hit.

Got this old article back online. In 2019, before DARK PHOENIX came out, I wrote this piece about why it's so hard to do the Dark Phoenix Saga on film. Nothing has happened to contradict it since. medium.com/@nbrehmer/wh...

It was a very funny bit in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL when Jason Segel performed a song written for a DRACULA musical, but in reality Bonnie Tyler actually did that and it became inarguably one of the biggest love ballads of the past 50 years.

It's wild how many people are like "I can't believe she's selling out for cape shit!" for an actor who was already one of the stars of a SUPERMAN show.

I was never much of a critic. My bag was more "Let me write about the time Marvel had the X-Men, whose whole brand is fighting to have their humanity recognized, legally declared as inhuman monsters because the tariffs were lower on monster toys than human toys, because it's extremely funny to me."

Can't speak to EVIL DEAD BURN yet, but I still think the perfect way to marry the tone of the new films and the previous ones, is to take a script that is exactly as intense as these ones are on paper, and then cast people from Dropout.

I absolutely had to write something about the new Pretty Reckless album, so I wrote about the banger "About You," which brings a long overdue level of self-respect to songs about a cheating partner by saying "Buddy, that sounds like a YOU problem." medium.com/@nbrehmer/su...

I absolutely had to write something about the new Pretty Reckless album, so I wrote about the banger "About You," which brings a long overdue level of self-respect to songs about a cheating partner by saying "Buddy, that sounds like a YOU problem." medium.com/@nbrehmer/su...

This is like if we started saying Nosferatu and Anaconda are contemporary classics, except that there's actually less time between the release of those two as there is between the publication of Frankenstein and Dracula.

Honestly, go for it. As long as everyone's still invested and compensated, sure. It's animation's job to have people glance at it and go "Jesus Christ, that's STILL on the air?"

I love how tied together Dracula and Frankenstein are in pop culture but I do think it's funny how they're considered contemporary classics when there's as much time between publication of Frankenstein and Dracula as there is between the publication of Dracula and release of Texas Chain Saw Massacre

I've always noticed that the one exception to "don't hate (larger entity) based on (specific group or person)" is hating a state based on their most scumbag elected official. Yes, obviously, I notice today because it's Maine, but no state has ever been the exception to this.

I had an elderly relative who, when she found out she was dying, started calling every single person she knew to let them know how much she really hated them. This is what the entire aging billionaire class of this planet is currently doing right now.