Cuddles After Dark
Charlie Stross trying to make James Nicoll cry: Three o'clock in the morning. The rain had subsided to a gentle trickle: Cuddles hunkered down on her haunches and oozed through the cat-flap to take up...
View ArticleMetal versus Prog
We should probably be glad that Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's story of Dracula fighting the Silver Surfer only took up a single issue of The Tomb of Dracula; with any luck, such brevity should protect...
View ArticleWindows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks
Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks. Didn't we all, deep down, know the awful truth all along. My favourite: [Via MetaFilter]
View ArticleThe Sleepover
The makers of The Sleepover describe it as a 'proof of concept' for a longer film set in the same town. Me, I'm happy enough with what they've got here: to-the-point, horrifying and with a punchline...
View ArticleCarrie meets Cinderella
Combining footage from Disney's Cinderella with the soundtrack from a trailer for the Carrie remake gets you this creepy little number: I know the remake has been receiving mixed reviews in the USA,...
View ArticleYum!
When making macarons no one can hear you scream! [Via fuck yeah, science fiction!]
View ArticleWas du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen.
I'm probably the last filmgoer over the age of 30 in the western world to have heard about this particular example, but I still think it's worth sharing. It turns out that Stanley Kubrick was something...
View ArticleRun
Run is a little beauty of a story. It's just a vignette, but that's all it needs to be: there's absolutely no need for it to be expanded into a full length feature. What counts is the economy with...
View ArticleGodzilla Returns
Judging by the first full trailer, this year's take on Godzilla looks bigger, meaner and a whole lot scarier than the version who chased Matthew Broderick around New York back in 1998: They're gonna...
View ArticleThe Man with the Plan
Having seen Oculus the other night,1 I was reading the comments at the IMDb and came across a mention of a short film made by Oculus director Mike Flanagan back in 2006 that was related to his feature...
View ArticleDisgusting. (And the chestburster isn't helping.)
I like the New WEYLAND-YUTANI CADBURY CREME EGG Recipe #Cadbury pic.twitter.com/POWsZiE3ct — Ghoulia Childs (@GhouliaChilds) January 13, 2015 I wonder if this is a sly attempt by Cadbury's social media...
View ArticleAll the lonely people…
Eleanor Rigby, reimagined as a horror story. [Via Electrolite: Sidelights]
View ArticleSexiest Man Alive
Mallory Ortberg reveals the fate of David Beckham, Sexiest Man Alive. Hugh. George. Matthew. Johnny. Ryan. Bradley. Channing. Pierce. Ben. Brad. He kept these names always at the forefront of his mind,...
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