ROBOCOP 3 is like you've been having a jolly old time at the age of 7 playing with your Robocop toys all week, but you just got a new guy called Karate Man and oh boy, it's about to pop off in the backyard.

Say what you want about the movie, but the opening credits of RETURN OF SWAMP THING absolutely slap.

“There is a red and angry world. Red things happen there. The world eats your wife. Eats your friends. Eats all of the things that make you human. And you become a monster.”

“I’d buy that for a dollar” / “I’ll be back”

When major news outlets are asking Grok for an apology because they know it will automatically generate one, and not the richest man in the world because they're afraid of what he's going to say, we're already cooked.

A good start to a teen comedy section.

Take ROBOCOP 2, pretty much as it is, the one change is that Stuart Gordon directs it, and you've got an all-timer.

2020: SPONTANEOUS 2021: LAST NIGHT IN SOHO 2022: WATCHER 2023: GODZILLA MINUS ONE 2024: THELMA 2025: SINNERS

20 minutes into T2 after returning home from seeing AVATAR: FIRE & ASH and it did not even occur to me until now that I'm doing a James Cameron double feature. T2 just felt right to ring in the year.

Channeling my inner ‘90s goth.

Not hating, I swear, simply can't resist: STRANGER THINGS 5: CHAPTER EIGHT: ANOTHER SIMPSONS CLIP SHOW

The casting of PUPPET MASTER 5 puts it a notch above 4 for me. Clu Gulager, Ian Ogilvy, Nicholas Guest, Willard Pugh, Duane Whitaker, Torch

IDLE HANDS has to be a rarity for high school horror movies in that we do not set foot in or even so much as glimpse the high school until the third act.

*sees the girl Pnub had been hitting on completely torn apart by a ceiling fan* Mick: Now you're really not gonna get any. Pnub: It's just not fair. Mick: Well, you can go back if you want to get a piece.

I know it's not the point and we're proving they could get away with opening it up in every movie if they wanted, but the camp was only actually open for one out of all twelve FRIDAY THE 13TH movies.

JURASSIC PARK shelf display.

FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST DUNE

Had a friend who lived in Bangor and had never gone to see Stephen King's house, so I said "fuck it, let's go," and as we approach the house he was literally right outside walking the corgi, so we just played it cool and kept on driving.

Welcome to Fright Night… shelf.

*watching PHANTOM OF THE OPERA* Theatre Producers: I tell you, there is no Phantom! Me, nodding: The Opera did it.

Today’s killer VHS haul.

As promised, it's time for a thread of the LEAST popular pieces I posted to Medium in 2025. For comparison's sake, most popular ranged upward of 1K views. Here are the 5 pieces that got *under 20* views, starting with this one on the family dynamics of NEAR DARK. nbrehmer.medium.com/near-dark-an...

The beauty of this scene is that you could show this one clip to someone and give them a comprehensive understanding of the entire film.

One of the finest moments in film history is that 15 second bit of RE-ANIMATOR when West confesses to killing Hill, Dan goes "He's dead?!" and West has a full close-up sitcom "Did I do that?" wince to the camera as he says, "Not anymore..."

Thanks to the figure my wife got my for Christmas, here's my new, proud HALLOWEEN H20 display.

I'm gonna do a thread of the most popular articles/essays/etc. that I posted the Medium in 2025. (In the spirit of good-natured fairness I'll also be posting a thread of the LEAST popular posts later) #1 was this background on CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF/SILVER BULLET. nbrehmer.medium.com/the-strange-...

There’s one classic Christmas film I forgot to watch.

I just realized how many of my favorite Christmas presents over the years I still have in my possession, so I took a pic. The scarfs on the figures are just a nice seasonal touch. This is also heavily dominated by my favorite childhood Christmas where I found the PUPPET MASTER toys under the tree.

My wife rocks. What a gift. I still can’t believe there’s a HALLOWEEN H20 figure even though I’ve been begging for one for so long.

What I'd really love for Christmas is a streaming (or physical!) release of this show.

It's nice to see appreciation for the prequels.

Aside from year-round favorites like GREMLINS and BATMAN RETURNS, I realized it's been several years since I've seen most Christmas classics, so I'm having a Christmas movie marathon. Starting in the natural place with A CHRISTMAS STORY.

"You will be visited by three spirits"

The Burton Batman collection.

SECRET WARS is also a story about how my big beautiful boy Colossus is really hard to defend sometimes, but that's neither here nor there.

I do find it genuinely funny that people begged for years to get Doom in the MCU and their one and only, specific reason was that "nobody has ever gotten that character right on film" and are now so excited for a movie where it is almost universally accepted that it won't even be that same character

PUPPET MASTER VS. DEMONIC TOYS

I want Harry D'Amour to have what Benoit Blanc has.

This is an extremely Maine opinion to share, but Fishers are the cutest looking animal to earnestly be a genuine living nightmare.

One of the best, small moments in GREMLINS is the fact that Mrs. Deagle is terrified but unsurprised by what's happening. She intimately knows exactly what an asshole she is. She thinks demons have come to drag her to Hell and not only accepts it, she treats it as a genuine inevitability.

Me finding out the egg is just a fossil:

SON OF A

It really is jarring how we framed AI as a necessity by suddenly making it a given that any and all technology is inevitably, permanently mainstream just by the fact that it exists, which could not be less true. Imagine saying "Yeah, sorry, the Zune is here forever, you just have to accept it."

If there was ever gonna be a CALVIN & HOBBES movie it should've been during that early '90s run of ADDAMS FAMILY, FLINTSTONES, DENNIS THE MENACE, etc. which were at least always interesting and lively and weird, whether they worked or not.

One of my favorites things a movie can do is roll the opening credits over the precise moment the shit hits the fan. SMALL SOLDIERS excels at this.

That’s a wrap on bringing my number one dream project to life. My favorite thing I’ve done, the story I’ve waited 20 years to tell, and I cannot possibly be more grateful for every single person who came together to tell it. I’ll have much more to say soon.

STAND BY ME is my favorite movie. What the fuck. What the absolute fuck.

It was bound to happen and it looks great. Brundle Video, my retro video store themed wall, has expanded from three shelves to a full corner.

"The deal can get people to spend more time on Disney platforms by giving them new ways to play around with its famous franchises."