Author: Bartholemew Cobb
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The Great Pumpkin and the Tragic Piety of Linus
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Read more: The Great Pumpkin and the Tragic Piety of LinusI was asked what I like to watch for Halloween, what scares me and what do I watch to be scared, and I had to think about it because I usually don’t watch anything for Halloween.
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Top Ten Low Effort Halloween Costumes
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Read more: Top Ten Low Effort Halloween CostumesIs it Halloween again? All the candy-distribution, and the paper-ghost hanging not to mention the turds in the birdbath. When did things get so complicated!?
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American Werewolf in London (1981)
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Read more: American Werewolf in London (1981)1969. John Landis is a kid on his first movie set, just out of school and bushy-tailed for adventure. The studio sends him to be Ninth Asst. Director Once Removed on a war film in Serbia, or Albania, or Montenegro—one of those gray, superstitious countries
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Top 10 Halloween Candies That Are More Trick Than Treat
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Read more: Top 10 Halloween Candies That Are More Trick Than TreatCandy Corn-Why?–That not a cruel thing to ask, I mean, step back. Candy. Corn. Fucking why? They don’t taste like corn. And they don’t look like corn kernels, except the thin yellow layer at the top
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Hellraiser (1987)
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Read more: Hellraiser (1987)Internet porn and plastic in our water supply is creating more and more men like Frank Cotton. A besotted hedonist, a flesh-worshiper of the most bent and twisted caste possible.
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The Ninth Gate (1999)
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Read more: The Ninth Gate (1999)In the grand universe of horror/mystery tropes, the most hoary and venerable must be: Start it with an old dude hanging himself. The viewer is instantly gripped: why-oh-why did this dignified gentleman find it necessary to end himself?
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Casablanca (1942)
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Read more: Casablanca (1942)Casablanca is a hornet’s nest of thieves and cutthroats, as one of my favorite characters, the pickpocket, says “Be careful, there are vultures, vultures everywhere,”
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Rocky (1976)
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Read more: Rocky (1976)Sylvester doesn’t write plot, Sylvester writes character, and it’s character that determines the ending.
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The Top 10 Hollywood Tropes: They need to go Edition
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Read more: The Top 10 Hollywood Tropes: They need to go EditionThe cheap platitudes of Hollywood have warped popular perception so completely that many who read this will be shocked that ANYONE could possibly disagree.
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Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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Read more: Sunset Blvd. (1950)Whom other than the broke, down-on-his-luck writer could tell the story of granduers past and golden eras faded into weed-choked shadows of their former grace.