Endless Blasphemy
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Fun loving misanthrope and occasional freelance subversive sifting through our collective cultural entrails looking for a good time.
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Mother of Flies, despite its low budget, is an incredible folk horror film. I absolutely love the gorgeous outdoor shots it contains and the manner in which the Adams family depicts ritual as something challenging and immensely painful. The sound design is also pretty impressive.
I really enjoy the new visual effects in Blakes 7 Season 2. Hopefully Season 3 and 4 are released next year.
Any SOI adaptation that doesn't go hard on the government raid of Innsmouth (can anyone see the parallels with contemporary events in the US?), is going to be lesser for it. Probably my favorite adaptations include Breccia's and Tanabe's.
I rewatched Stuart Gordon's Dagon last night & continue to think that it's one of the mid-tier Lovecraft adaptations. Most of the changes he made to Shadow Over Innsmouth story did not benefit his film, with the exception of the inclusion of Uxía.We should have gotten a creepy bus ride to Innsmouth!
I love the original Legend of Zelda. No towns, little dialogue, few npcs... a focus on gameplay and scenario over narrative. It's the absolute perfect game.
Ok, Hear Me Out... A Lord of the Rings remake, but with These Two taking the One Ring to Mordor
Targets (1968) is Boris Karloff's Unforgiven (1992). When faced with horror in real life, Karloff's character, a retiring actor, stands up and takes matters into his own hands. Such a great flick.
Sterling Lanier's The Unforsaken Hiero doesn't live up to the first book and was never followed up by an intended third novel. Still, I’m glad to have gotten another glimpse of this post-apocalyptic world. In particular, I enjoyed the ancient snail and the vicious cat people whom Hiero recruited.
Sterling Lanier's Hiero's Journey is a perfect blend of fantasy and scifi set in a post-apocalyptic world.The protagonist Hiero has the ability to read and control minds and is on a quest through previously nuked areas of Canada.His companions include a telepathic bear and mutant moose. Good stuff.
Inferno is peak Doctor Who. It's one of the absolute best stories in the show's history.
It's awesome that Paul Darrow has such a big role in Doctor Who and the Silurians. There's a few scenes where it's just him and he even gets a pretty intense death scene in the final episode.
Completing my journey through Isaac Asimov's Baley and Olivaw novels, I immensely enjoyed The Robots of Dawn.Key returning characters, such as Dr. Fastolfe and Gladia, have prominent roles in the story, and the short story Liar! is a significant foil as well as a source of mythology within the text.
Totally agree. The Final Wars version of Gigan is pretty cool too....
By the way, there was a 1969 BBC adaptation of this story on Out of the Unknown tv series that unfortunately was wiped like those early Doctor Who episodes. Feel free to cry with me as you look at the existing stills from it.... Those costumes and set look incredible!