the words and worlds of John Robinson
It has been forty-two years since John Carpenter's Halloween first shivered the spines of film-goers. Think of all the copycats, posers, and just plain rip-offs that came after it (a few of which were its own sequels). Closing in on a half-century of filmic immortality and it's still as Shape-stalking good as the first time it …
Emma and Henry, mostly happily married, return home from enjoying their Halloween festivities which Henry obviously enjoyed more than his wife. She has had her fill of Halloween and wants to take down all of their decorations that very night. Henry promises to do it first thing the next morning, but Emma knows he won't …
Frankie Scarlatti is a kid who loves his family and Halloween. One day he falls prey to a couple of bullies, Donald and Louie, at his school. Just for the sheer joy they find in meanness, the two miscreants lock Frankie in the coatroom after class ends. With no way to get free, Frankie settles …
Based upon the 1957 short story of the same name by George Langelaan, The Fly was first adapted to the screen with horror icon Vincent Price in 1958. It was then remade, with director and co-screenwriter David Cronenberg, in 1986. I believe it is safe to say that to compare the two versions with each …
One Halloween, many, many years ago, my grandfather built a haunted house in his and my grandmother's back yard. Not technically a house, mind you, but a maze, a labyrinth twisting this way and that, filled with any ghoulish thing that popped in his head. I was young, maybe three years old, and I have a …
It's a scorcher of a summer heatwave when Malcolm Hilyard decides to go out of town to see some friends. He's stressed out and needs a break...mainly from his mother, Cornelia Hilyard (Olivia de Havilland). He lives with her and she is recently recuperating from a broken hip. Their relationship is strained, although Cornelia doesn't …
If I were rich, like multimillionaire rich, I'd probably be penniless in no time flat. I'd at least have a house to live in, though. The possibility arises that, if I had the financial means to do so, I would have four dream houses built because I wouldn't know which one I'd actually want to …
I've spent a good amount of time, lately, playing Call of Duty: World War II.  I am a fan of the series ever since I first played Call of Duty 2 on the X-Box 360. Well, let me amend my statement, I'm a fan of the World War II games. I like the others well enough, but, for the …
Back in the mid-'90s, I began to work the graveyard shift (which turned into a nearly eighteen year stretch). When I was not working, on my "days" off so to speak, I had a tendency to keep to my routine of being up late at night and sleeping late into the day (this was before …
In a small village in early 18th Century England, a farmer, Ralph, makes a gruesome find while plowing the field: the blade uncovers a skull. The skull is not human, but seems to be a mix of beast and man, maybe even demonic. For all its age and decomposition, it still has one eye intact …
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