I like centipedes.  Let me just get that out of the way.  I know it's aberrant, perhaps even perverted, to have affection for a creature whose very existence makes people crazy with disgust.  I think they are cool looking, and I appreciate their interesting place near the base of the arthropod family tree.  So I was excited to learn of a horror ( Read more... )

I watched Curse of the Komodo so you don't have to.  Sick bastard that I am, I made my friend Alex watch it with me.  When I told her that I was considering watching it a second time, (strictly for review purposes) she told me "you couldn't pay me to watch it again."  She also advised that I change the DVD settings and watch it in Spanish:  "At ( Read more... )

In the atomic age, moviemakers convinced us that radiation was going to spawn gargantuan monsters--oversized grasshoppers, ants, even rabbits! The truth, of course, is that radioactive material doesn't create monsters, it merely kills all living things slowly and horribly--a scary prospect, but not one that can be the boogeyman for a 90 minute ( Read more... )