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  1. Horror Express was one of those titles that was ubiquitous in the 80s and early 90s, as everyone had a copy on VHS.

    When I got my first standalone DVD player in 1998, Horror Express was one of the first titles I picked up.

    I believe I still have the Image DVD of this title in storage.

    Looking on Amazon it seems that Severin put out a Blu-Ray some years back.

    What an amazing atmosphere of dread this movie portrays.

    Something about that train speeding through the snowy landscape that gives it such a feeling of isolation.

    When Telly hits the stage, though, it's all bets are off.

    One of my all time favorites.

     

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  2. 11 hours ago, gatling said:

    Boo!  Boo I say!  Seriously though, congrats on getting a good reward.  You must be the one person that did so they can say it actually happened.

    Too bad I don't have enough to power him up to be competitive in the Zombie Rush tourny.

  3. On 10/26/2018 at 9:36 PM, Curt McGirt said:

    Great. In other shitty metal news, Mark Adams, bassist for doom gods Saint Vitus, has Parkinson's. He's got a Gofundme page up if you want to contribute. 

    Horrible news, horrible disease.

    I wish him well.

    If I can get some overtime in the coming weeks I'll try to shoot him a few hours worth.

    What a great band they continue to be after all the lineup changes through the years.

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  4. 10 hours ago, gatling said:

    Login to get your 250 Trick or Treat bags with small rewards in them.  I totaled 1 dollar in game cash; 421,495 coins; a total of 24 TP; 9200 zombie rush karma; 33 health packs; 17 blitz tokens; and 7 gear chips.

    I think I got most of what you did, but The Revenant Steve Austin was in there for me.

  5. 47 minutes ago, J.T. said:

    Just when you thought that Pennywise was the scariest horror clown ever, Pretzel Jack from Channel Zero / Dream Door is making a strong run at his title.

    Once I saw Troy James's name in the credits, I knew he was going to play Pretzel Jack.  I'd seen his act on America's Got Talent and I also think he was on Showtime At The Apollo.  

    I checked out his iMDB profile.  He's had some bit parts, but this looks like it's his first major role.  Hey, Doug Jones made a career of playing monsters, so why not this guy?

    My wife and I are trying to slow roll this and not burn through it in one night, but it's so good.

    We're half way through and it's been nuts.

  6. On 10/23/2018 at 11:47 PM, Death From Above said:

    The good news is there's currently no player to player communication. I will say though they really should at least add some sort of friends list system. One of my gripes with Elder Scrolls Legends was that you're in this giant multiplayer game but never shook the feeling of total isolation.

    Magic absolutely draws in some utter shitheads. It's the Counter Strike: Global Offensive of cards. No argument there.

    I played a couple dozen or so games and can say that the current interface demolishes the old one.

    I've won a few, but lost at least one because of my own confusion.

    Liking it so far.

    Will probably spend the $4.99 and pick up the welcome deal this weekend when I have more time to play.

  7. 1 hour ago, Death From Above said:

    Magic the Gathering: Arena is great. Finally a Magic game has a good UI that they stole from Hearthstone (and Elder Scrolls Legends, before that game decied to blow itself up for no reason), but it has the distinct advantage of being Magic and not Hearthstone, which is a final blow from which there is no recovery.

    I haven't played... like, almost this century? But honestly there's been surprisingly little I've actually had to learn. A lot of the weird gimmick mechanics that came in the interem have since gone, and so there's only been a small number of things I haven't been able to do just on muscle memory. There are a couple small UI quality of life things I think could be cleaned up before a full launch, but for a beta it's pretty polished. It's one of those "AAA betas" things where it might as well just be called a stress test because the game is done.

    Some of the decks you get for free just for playing the game are actually not bad at all. You get 5 monochrome decks just for signging up then it looks like a new two-colour deck each of the first few days. There's a green/black deck you will get in a couple days based around spawning tons of 1/1 tokens and zerg rushing anything in sight and it's actually a really, really fun deck. But there should be something for everyone.

    I'm in for the grand total of $5 US to get the little one-time special deal that all online CCG's have a variant of, because I've already had way more than $5 worth of fun with it in the last week so there's absolutely no reason not to.

    I've fallen off the wagon and I don't care. MtG: Arena is like seeing your ex from high school 20 years later and it turns out she's still really hot, and single, and looking to meet in a town near you.

    I'd like to get into this, but I've been away from that community for many years.

    Plus the amount of toxic people into the IRL MtG puts me off.

  8. 16 hours ago, piranesi said:

    I love the sexual politics of Hellraiser.  The idea that the lead lady is instantly hypnotized and enslaved by the first dude who could really lay proper pipe to the point that she is murdering fools.  I really think Clive Barker thinks that's how ladies' insides work.

    Julia and Frank had history from before she was married to Larry and before Frank discovered the puzzle box.

    Larry is portrayed as a milquetoast daddy, whereas Frank is the player.

    Which would you rather bang?

     

  9. On 9/3/2018 at 4:30 PM, odessasteps said:

    RIP Jacqueline Pearce, British actress known for Hammer films and TV roles including on Doctor Who and a villain on Blakes 7. 

    I somehow missed this announcement.

    She was great in the Hammer films Plague of the Zombies and The Reptile, but her best known work was as Servalan in Blake's 7.

    R.I.P.

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