I’ve written about inanimate objects that kill in movies, but those were about possessed machinery and killer furniture. While I was lying in bed the other night counting corpses, I began to think of all the weirder items that have…
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One Christmas I received the best present ever- the actual Jason mask prop from one of the films. John Waters had somehow gotten it for me but there was a glitch in the delivery and somewhere along the line it…
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Lately, not surprisingly, I’ve been thinking a lot about paranoia. But in movies, not in crackpot political conspiracy theories. It takes me back to a batch of movies that were permeated with a dark strain of pessimistic dread. I mentioned…
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I was quite young when I saw The Incredible Shrinking Man in a movie theater but the film had a profound effect on me. It was the story of Robert Scott Carey, on vacation with his wife on a boat…
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Most kids love dinosaurs. I remember when I was very young being dazzled by an ad on the back of a comic book that offered a 6 ft. Tyrannosaurus Rex. I sent in my money and weeks later a thin…
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A while back I wrote an article about a series of movies I call WTF Cinema– films that are so whacked-out and weird they defy quick characterization. But since then, I realized there were plenty of titles I forgot. Movies…
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The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo was a groundbreaking work which shone a spotlight on the shameful way gay people were presented in film through the years. If you were gay in a movie you usually ended up dead in…
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A mysterious ship sails into a London port, seemingly without a crew. Authorities apprehensively board the vessel to find countless bloodless bodies. They approach a hold, hearing a demonic cackle, and up rises Renfield, the doomed, possessed slave of Count…
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In Hollywood, “tuck” is not what you do to your children at night. Sometimes it’s a porn star’s name, but usually it’s something that you do to your body. To stay off the ravages of time, actors and actresses whittle…
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It distresses me to hear all the arguments concerning straight actors playing gay roles. Those who think only gay actors should be offered gay roles are also limiting gay actors at what they are allowed to play. I thought it…
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