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That was... fun. A Laundry-style take on the cliché horror slaughter movie. Brilliant. People more into horror than I will see lots of references that I recognised as being something, but not exactly what. And seeing Her at the end was just perfect!

Cabin in the Woods  is like if Betrayal at House on the Hill  and The Laundry loved each other very ( Read more... )

I wonder if the movie was subjected to a studio hack job like Bladerunner was? Some of the scenes just don't seem to follow on properly from each other; the whole thing was somewhat incoherent.

The apparent protagonists are painted as archaeologists, but act more like Von Daniken cultists who lucked onto something that matched their pet theories to ( Read more... )

Basically it's as if Sir Terry Pratchett wrote up his Mage campaign. A mildly funny, mildly thoughtful, mildly twisted take on the Urban Fantasy genre. Perhaps without the overt moralising that Sir Terry has become known for in his later books. And a bit bloodier than Sir Terry's style ( Read more... )

Poetry by Kyla Ward

A book of poetry ideally should be read like a box of chocolates should be eaten; one at a time, with time to savour between each.
Kyla's work is certainly rich enough to encourage this approach. Each poem is like a topiary of words, decorated in Christmas-tree-fashion with small carnivores, herbs, and white and black ribbon. ( ( Read more... )

Day Watch is a sequel to the Russian modern fantasy movie Night Watch. I think I've been parsing the phrase wrongly. It's not about who's watching whom, it could be better translated as "Day Shift" and 'Night Shift". Two sets of fairly pragmatic supernatural creatures have decided that one group gets to use its powers during the day, the other at ( Read more... )

Apparently there's a cat that can tell when people are going to die.
Obviously, correlation is not causation...
And it reminds me of an old Stephen King movie, Cat's Eye, which I thought did reasonable justice to some of his short stories.

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Patient sheds green blood in emergency operation

"It's apparently been caused by sulphur in the patient's migraine medication being absorbed into his red blood cells."

That's what They want you to believe...

SMH via
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FIRST MOMENT OF DYING

by Robert Hood