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From Adrianne Curry, the one with a crush on Peter Brady on VH1's The Surreal Life [suggesting] Bernie Sanders was her pathway to criticizing Bad Bunny for speaking Spanish on Saturday Night Live.
Actually, asshole, you 100% own this racism yourself.
Actually, asshole, you 100% own this racism yourself.
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
From Adrianne Curry, the one with a crush on Peter Brady on VH1's The Surreal Life [suggesting] Bernie Sanders was her pathway to criticizing Bad Bunny for speaking Spanish on Saturday Night Live.
Actually, asshole, you 100% own this racism yourself.
Actually, asshole, you 100% own this racism yourself.
From the start, this was an impossible task. The story was too big and too serious, it was destined to fail. And everything about this miserable miniseries is an example of failure. I said on Letterboxd, and I stand by it, checking out Gary Sinise's amazing butt is the only satisfaction to get here.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
From the start, this was an impossible task. The story was too big and too serious, it was destined to fail. And everything about this miserable miniseries is an example of failure. I said on Letterboxd, and I stand by it, checking out Gary Sinise's amazing butt is the only satisfaction to get here.
And when I call it dour, that's a potentially flattering way to describe the aesthetic of this agonizingly plain flop of a movie about armageddon. The subject matter begs for tension, you'll get none. That this was based on a Stephen King story, infamous for conjuring immense dread, is dumbfounding.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
And when I call it dour, that's a potentially flattering way to describe the aesthetic of this agonizingly plain flop of a movie about armageddon. The subject matter begs for tension, you'll get none. That this was based on a Stephen King story, infamous for conjuring immense dread, is dumbfounding.
If you tried to sell me this concept as a 6-hour film in line at the ticket counter, I would pass. In record time. Unsurprisingly, watching it proved exactly the disaster I expected. A celebrity-stacked cast, mixed with a depressingly low budget (for 6 hours), does nothing to liven its dourness.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
If you tried to sell me this concept as a 6-hour film in line at the ticket counter, I would pass. In record time. Unsurprisingly, watching it proved exactly the disaster I expected. A celebrity-stacked cast, mixed with a depressingly low budget (for 6 hours), does nothing to liven its dourness.
Age-Horror needs its day in the sun. Which it could accomplish with better horror films about it. Meanwhile? Don't ask me why a horror film about people stranded anywhere usually leaves me intrigued. A horror film about a storm somehow spilling the tea of an entire town's dark secrets? Sign me up.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Age-Horror needs its day in the sun. Which it could accomplish with better horror films about it. Meanwhile? Don't ask me why a horror film about people stranded anywhere usually leaves me intrigued. A horror film about a storm somehow spilling the tea of an entire town's dark secrets? Sign me up.
6. The Stand (1994)
If the last 4 films on this list (beginning with Langoliers) were - somehow (unfathomably) - released theatrically and I decided to pick one to see based on word of mouth... it might make me look boring if I chose Golden Years because there aren't many horror films about aging.
If the last 4 films on this list (beginning with Langoliers) were - somehow (unfathomably) - released theatrically and I decided to pick one to see based on word of mouth... it might make me look boring if I chose Golden Years because there aren't many horror films about aging.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
6. The Stand (1994)
If the last 4 films on this list (beginning with Langoliers) were - somehow (unfathomably) - released theatrically and I decided to pick one to see based on word of mouth... it might make me look boring if I chose Golden Years because there aren't many horror films about aging.
If the last 4 films on this list (beginning with Langoliers) were - somehow (unfathomably) - released theatrically and I decided to pick one to see based on word of mouth... it might make me look boring if I chose Golden Years because there aren't many horror films about aging.
Not to mention if I found remote stimulation in The Langoliers, it could be argued my minimum standards are quite low. But Age-Horror typically underwhelms me as though every filmmaker thinks the concept alone does all the work. The rest of this relies on tired Government Conspiracy anxiety. Bland.
October 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Not to mention if I found remote stimulation in The Langoliers, it could be argued my minimum standards are quite low. But Age-Horror typically underwhelms me as though every filmmaker thinks the concept alone does all the work. The rest of this relies on tired Government Conspiracy anxiety. Bland.
In fact, I don't remember nearly any of the specifics. I would argue that's telling. But I sure remember the feeling. And I remember it involved the exact thing that pushed me over the edge about Cronenberg's Scanners. (I'll avoid spoiling it here. But if you remember Scanners...)
October 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In fact, I don't remember nearly any of the specifics. I would argue that's telling. But I sure remember the feeling. And I remember it involved the exact thing that pushed me over the edge about Cronenberg's Scanners. (I'll avoid spoiling it here. But if you remember Scanners...)
5. Golden Years (1991)
I've forgotten most everything about it except the serious subject matter baiting of its plot strapped me in insofar as I wanted to know how it would end. And the ending pissed me off minutes before the credit roll began. It wasn't resolution / lack thereof that furied me...
I've forgotten most everything about it except the serious subject matter baiting of its plot strapped me in insofar as I wanted to know how it would end. And the ending pissed me off minutes before the credit roll began. It wasn't resolution / lack thereof that furied me...
October 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
5. Golden Years (1991)
I've forgotten most everything about it except the serious subject matter baiting of its plot strapped me in insofar as I wanted to know how it would end. And the ending pissed me off minutes before the credit roll began. It wasn't resolution / lack thereof that furied me...
I've forgotten most everything about it except the serious subject matter baiting of its plot strapped me in insofar as I wanted to know how it would end. And the ending pissed me off minutes before the credit roll began. It wasn't resolution / lack thereof that furied me...
I make few claims with the following observations but it's true I've sat through some television productions which leached my lifeforce. The Langoliers, however, "thrilled" me with its elaborate exploration of the airport (I'm serious, cool airport) and Bronson Pinchot's paranoia was engrossing.
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I make few claims with the following observations but it's true I've sat through some television productions which leached my lifeforce. The Langoliers, however, "thrilled" me with its elaborate exploration of the airport (I'm serious, cool airport) and Bronson Pinchot's paranoia was engrossing.
4. The Langoliers (1995)
This is the point of no return with overlong Stephen King adaptations. From here you can only hunker down, grab a bottle, and pray for daylight. That being said, compared to the next few films? I could not describe my hours with The Langoliers as particularly unpleasant.
This is the point of no return with overlong Stephen King adaptations. From here you can only hunker down, grab a bottle, and pray for daylight. That being said, compared to the next few films? I could not describe my hours with The Langoliers as particularly unpleasant.
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
4. The Langoliers (1995)
This is the point of no return with overlong Stephen King adaptations. From here you can only hunker down, grab a bottle, and pray for daylight. That being said, compared to the next few films? I could not describe my hours with The Langoliers as particularly unpleasant.
This is the point of no return with overlong Stephen King adaptations. From here you can only hunker down, grab a bottle, and pray for daylight. That being said, compared to the next few films? I could not describe my hours with The Langoliers as particularly unpleasant.
that, much like with 1990's IT (and, frankly: Psycho IV), Garris's Shining had me curiosity-locked within minute 1 by his dedication to treat the made for TV format (at least on this occasion) with a grace and smoothness. Not sophistication but close. It's heavily sedate but more effective than not.
October 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
that, much like with 1990's IT (and, frankly: Psycho IV), Garris's Shining had me curiosity-locked within minute 1 by his dedication to treat the made for TV format (at least on this occasion) with a grace and smoothness. Not sophistication but close. It's heavily sedate but more effective than not.
but if anyone ever tries to tell you Doctor Sleep is superior? You have more than my permission to unfollow that person- I'm going to insist upon it. On mere basis of Mike Flanagan's output somehow being elevated above schlock while Garris leans into it without shame, I am qualmless in admitting...
October 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
but if anyone ever tries to tell you Doctor Sleep is superior? You have more than my permission to unfollow that person- I'm going to insist upon it. On mere basis of Mike Flanagan's output somehow being elevated above schlock while Garris leans into it without shame, I am qualmless in admitting...
He's a lot like - a broke/n person's - Wes Craven: super soft-spoken, mostly down to Earth, and learned fast how to stretch a budget for all its worth. Once he shifted into television, he never made it out again. And, given that, his take on The Shining can't be the best book fans could hope for...
October 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
He's a lot like - a broke/n person's - Wes Craven: super soft-spoken, mostly down to Earth, and learned fast how to stretch a budget for all its worth. Once he shifted into television, he never made it out again. And, given that, his take on The Shining can't be the best book fans could hope for...
And there may be no words to explain Riding the Bullet. It's exactly as frustrating as Peter Jackson's The Frighteners, quickly justifies any argument by detractors. But it wouldn't take very much to essentially fix. And countless moments in it are jawdropping, it could have been Mick's masterpiece.
October 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
And there may be no words to explain Riding the Bullet. It's exactly as frustrating as Peter Jackson's The Frighteners, quickly justifies any argument by detractors. But it wouldn't take very much to essentially fix. And countless moments in it are jawdropping, it could have been Mick's masterpiece.
His Critters is easily the best of the series. The fact Psycho IV could've been visually flat with its script's setting (a roundtable call-in radio interview) but he gave it energy and mood. The spectacularly grisly Sleepwalkers; a scene with corn superior to any of the Children of the Corn films.
October 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
His Critters is easily the best of the series. The fact Psycho IV could've been visually flat with its script's setting (a roundtable call-in radio interview) but he gave it energy and mood. The spectacularly grisly Sleepwalkers; a scene with corn superior to any of the Children of the Corn films.
3. The Shining (1997)
Mick Garris has had his 3rd Strike with me; more than a total failure to show queerness in his films / scripts with any degree of positivity- Sleepwalkers, Riding the Bullet, and The V Word *all* portray gay men as predatory. Yet... I really have a thing for some of his films.
Mick Garris has had his 3rd Strike with me; more than a total failure to show queerness in his films / scripts with any degree of positivity- Sleepwalkers, Riding the Bullet, and The V Word *all* portray gay men as predatory. Yet... I really have a thing for some of his films.
October 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
3. The Shining (1997)
Mick Garris has had his 3rd Strike with me; more than a total failure to show queerness in his films / scripts with any degree of positivity- Sleepwalkers, Riding the Bullet, and The V Word *all* portray gay men as predatory. Yet... I really have a thing for some of his films.
Mick Garris has had his 3rd Strike with me; more than a total failure to show queerness in his films / scripts with any degree of positivity- Sleepwalkers, Riding the Bullet, and The V Word *all* portray gay men as predatory. Yet... I really have a thing for some of his films.
Regardless of which horror film best captures the Messed Up Town's social order as a means to corrupt youth and end lives (I'm inching toward Christine), the enduring iconography of 1990's IT (and its terrifying music score) draws me back to re-watches much more often than the Trump-era films.
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Regardless of which horror film best captures the Messed Up Town's social order as a means to corrupt youth and end lives (I'm inching toward Christine), the enduring iconography of 1990's IT (and its terrifying music score) draws me back to re-watches much more often than the Trump-era films.
Though- given my issues with Halloween Ends, I say it easily did a better job (than the 2010's IT Chapter films) accusing systemic influence for the spread of violence, soft-complicity in prevailing attitudes. In the form of a "haunting haze," casting Haddonfield just like Derry as a Ghost Town.
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Though- given my issues with Halloween Ends, I say it easily did a better job (than the 2010's IT Chapter films) accusing systemic influence for the spread of violence, soft-complicity in prevailing attitudes. In the form of a "haunting haze," casting Haddonfield just like Derry as a Ghost Town.
w/ Stephen King's IT + Christine in Halloween Ends to try anchoring the trilogy with a deeper, cohesive theme. (Which I look at as a solid ambition more than a roaring success.) To me, it's a reminder few creative giants are perfect- they all humbly experiment. (Especially Craven.) *We* pedestalize.
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
w/ Stephen King's IT + Christine in Halloween Ends to try anchoring the trilogy with a deeper, cohesive theme. (Which I look at as a solid ambition more than a roaring success.) To me, it's a reminder few creative giants are perfect- they all humbly experiment. (Especially Craven.) *We* pedestalize.
But there is some extraordinary irony for me - if no one else - in Stephen King borrowing copiously from Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street to get his Derry Disease of citizens ignoring systemic factors in hate crimes, violence in the town and David Gordon Green (& co.) doing the same thing...
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
But there is some extraordinary irony for me - if no one else - in Stephen King borrowing copiously from Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street to get his Derry Disease of citizens ignoring systemic factors in hate crimes, violence in the town and David Gordon Green (& co.) doing the same thing...
Shocker: w / all Capitalism's forcing white supremacy, patriarchal sexism, viciously cowardly (+ latently hypocritical) attacks on identity into every facet of our culture + functioning society, people find themselves reluctant to believe victims. Understand adults can't magically disappear trauma.
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Shocker: w / all Capitalism's forcing white supremacy, patriarchal sexism, viciously cowardly (+ latently hypocritical) attacks on identity into every facet of our culture + functioning society, people find themselves reluctant to believe victims. Understand adults can't magically disappear trauma.
2. IT (1990)
I suppose most recent discussion of this film has centered around its gripping depiction of childhood fear and gaslighting versus the 2-parter's "Adult Portion" where adults seek validation, witnesses for the horrors of their childhoods among a peanut gallery of obtuse contemporaries.
I suppose most recent discussion of this film has centered around its gripping depiction of childhood fear and gaslighting versus the 2-parter's "Adult Portion" where adults seek validation, witnesses for the horrors of their childhoods among a peanut gallery of obtuse contemporaries.
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
2. IT (1990)
I suppose most recent discussion of this film has centered around its gripping depiction of childhood fear and gaslighting versus the 2-parter's "Adult Portion" where adults seek validation, witnesses for the horrors of their childhoods among a peanut gallery of obtuse contemporaries.
I suppose most recent discussion of this film has centered around its gripping depiction of childhood fear and gaslighting versus the 2-parter's "Adult Portion" where adults seek validation, witnesses for the horrors of their childhoods among a peanut gallery of obtuse contemporaries.
Even the film read as camp wouldn't bother me. A charitable amount of it would be deliriously satisfying under that interpretation; every moment with Traci Lords. Especially the lipstick scene. Or later scenes without her- the talking dolls, the evil television, another killer soda machine.
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Even the film read as camp wouldn't bother me. A charitable amount of it would be deliriously satisfying under that interpretation; every moment with Traci Lords. Especially the lipstick scene. Or later scenes without her- the talking dolls, the evil television, another killer soda machine.
Of course, some wiser folk claim no Stephen King made-for-TV project was ever "good." And I'd agree that statement is fair. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't describe several as - at least - harrowing. I believe the casting was brilliant in more than a few notable roles. Especially Allyce Beasley.
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Of course, some wiser folk claim no Stephen King made-for-TV project was ever "good." And I'd agree that statement is fair. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't describe several as - at least - harrowing. I believe the casting was brilliant in more than a few notable roles. Especially Allyce Beasley.