In the department of Things That Are Outside My Field Of Experience, Yet Of Fascination To Me:

A medieval Torah scholar appears to make the argument that Rachel was killed by her son Benjamin, because he was a werewolf(I say "appears to make" because I can't tell which parts of this discussion are the words of Rabbeinu Ephraim ben Shimshon as ( Read more... )

This review contains complete, total, ruinous spoilers for "The Babadook" (2014). Let me get the downer out of the way first: "The Babadook" was a well-made, well-acted movie with cool design and effects, and I hated watching it. It was misrepresented to some extent; Kestrell and I thought it would be a monster movie, and it's a psychological ( Read more... )

sovay has an excellent essay here on "The Brides of Dracula," and I just enjoyed reading it. See my icon for my facial expression.

Eat 'em!  Eat 'em!  Crunch, crunch!

The Hemulen and I finally found time to sit down and watch Q: The Winged Serpent (1982).  I loved it.  It's cheese-tastic, both intentionally silly and unintentionally halfwitted, and sometimes brilliant.  It flaps back and forth between being a stupid B-movie and a very sharp and well-written B-movie.  Most of ( Read more... )

Speaking of monster hunters, I've just watched the brilliant Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon with kestrell and alexx_kay.  Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and their ilk were all real people, and this film follows Leslie, a rising young serial killer bent on his own career.  He's a trained acrobat and sleight-of-hand artist, he does a lot of cardio so he ( Read more... )

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