One year I downloaded every single episode of the original, 1959 Rod Serling version of The Twilight Zone and I made a “box set” of DVDs of it for my sister. It kinda coincidentally happened to be the 50th anniversary of the show itself.
While I was at it, I watched every single episode and I logged them. You see, having watched a number of Halloween Twilight Zone marathons on KOFY Channel 20 in the Bay Area — and by “watched,” I mean forgone sleep — my sister and I had long harbored the opinion that you could break them down into various themes.
So I came up with some icons and I made a key. You can download that PDF at the link below.
Sorry that it’s not easy to read sequentially. Its source is a Microsoft Publisher file and it’s designed to be printed out on double-sided paper and made into a CD/DVD booklet. But it’s been a bunch of years now and I still think it’s pretty amusing.
What an odd bird is Rambo: Last Blood. I had to watch it—I’m an American male of a certain age, and I grew up with the Rambo character. But what this movie was, I’m not quite sure. (Also, I was one of three people in the theater, on opening Friday night at 7pm.)
If you stumbled across this article because of a web search, chances are you already know that Glenn Danzig (he of Misfits, Samhain, and his eponymous band) has made a movie. You probably know it’s called Verotika, and that it’s based on various works published by his comic book company of the same name. And you’ve probably heard it’s bad. Like, really bad. All these things are true.
I’ve long been a fan of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror flick Suspiria, and I’m certainly not alone. Among horror film aficionados, Suspiria is revered as much for its memorable cinematography and score as its ability to remain compelling despite having an almost nonsensical plot. So when the news came that a remake of this seminal Italian film was in the works, the natural question was, “Why?”