the words and worlds of John Robinson
"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them." - Pauline Kael When we were children, my brother and I used to stay up late on Saturday nights to watch Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. If you are unfamiliar with her …
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Several years ago, on a Halloween night, I was invited to a seance. It was the first one I had ever attended, and I enjoyed it. A friend of mine hosted, and there were about six of us gathered at her house. It wasn't a hold hands around a crystal ball type of gathering, we …
Some years ago I was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club. They had a series of books in which they reprinted classic titles from different decades. Through the club I obtained copies of Rendezvous With Rama, The Mote In God's Eye, and Mythago Wood among others. It was during the reprint of the …
Continue reading "Movie of the Week: Dreams With Sharp Teeth"
I've only had four dreams, or they could be called nightmares, which have really stood out and stayed with me over the years. All of them I dreamed when I was a kid, and only one still bothered me as an adult. That dream was about Bigfoot standing in the corner of my grandmother's front …
Do you remember the story of Little Red Riding Hood? It's a popular bedtime story told around the world. I remember my mother and grandmother telling me the story when I was a kid. We even had storybooks of Red, a Little Golden Book edition if I remember correctly (it's been a while since then). …
On June 22, 2020, director Joel Schumacher passed away. He wrote Car Wash and The Wiz as well as writing and directing D. C. Cab which was a must-see movie and cable staple when I was in elementary school. He also directed The Lost Boys, which is a horror classic, and Flatliners (the original with Julia Roberts, which, like …
In May of 2015, I had the honor of meeting "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. I told him that when I was kid, when I watched the former World Wrestling Federation, he used to scare the teetotal hell out of me. He laughed, I laughed, and I'm proud I was able to share a laugh with such …
Continue reading "Movie of the Week: Hell Comes to Frogtown"
I cut my teeth as a child watching The Twilight Zone. My brother and I used to stay up late on summer nights and watch reruns of the original on a local syndicated station (WZTV Channel 17 long before it was owned by Fox, you couldn't beat it). I have watched my favorite episodes time and …
Don't you hate it when you're driving through the English countryside in a car with a strange woman who is going to see her drug-addicted sister and the drug-addicted sister's photographer boyfriend/captor is killed by the zombie of the village homeless man? It's a real bummer, for sure. Welcome to The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue. …
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If you are a horror fan, there is nothing more satisfying than watching a movie that gives you goosebumps and sends chills itching over your scalp. We can watch movie after movie and have no scared reaction, and that's not to say that those horror movies are bad. Even good ones won't make us jump …
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