J.T.

So, Nosferatu was really good. So happy to have a proper adaptation of Dracula without sexy vampires.

Hey! The version of Vault of Horror at Creature Features is the British edit, not the shitty US edit!

I believe his daughter would agree with you and I totally forgot that Nastassja Kinski and Quincy Jones were once an item and she had a kid by him. I have two more nights of vampire duty. I have The Vault of Horror queued up on Creature Features to get me through the most difficult time. I watched Torture Garden last night and it helped me survive the night.

HEY~! Back in the 2010's there was a Svengoolie-esque television show called Creature Features. It looks like they uploaded all of their old shows to a YouTube channel and there is a treasure trove of classic stuff there. https://www.youtube.com/@CreatureFeatures3 In addition to a pretty good selection of classic horror joints, they also have rarely seen stuff like Torture Garden and The Vault of Horror in their playlist along with Trilogy of Terror, Tales from the Crypt, and other movies. I tend to FF through all of the schlock. And no, the old black dude that plays Livingston, the creepy butler, is not me.

This is the correct answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHxFSHuoxfY

Curt is not wrong.

This is why I have downloaded the Character Creator and am experimenting. The Qunari I have made are... not handsome at all. I may have to roll as a human just like I did in Origins.

Seven more days of night duty to go and then I'll disappear for two weeks and try to catch up on my backlog. Veilguard is on top of the pile. I hate all of you all for getting me into this. Just saying.

I'm still jealous that his corrupt cop character got to bang Lena Olin's crazy Russian assassin babe character in Romeo Is Bleeding. Handcuffed to a bed no less.

RIP to the man that brought us Big Jim Slade.

Get Millie Black is fucking awesome.

Hopefully this won't come off as anti-woke gibberish, but why is Helm Hammerhand's previously unnamed daughter the main character in this and not Helm Hammerhand himself?

The Keep was such a bizarre movie based on a novel that was equally bizarre. I'm glad the movie will see the light of day again. Speaking of The Keep, I'm actually surprised there have been no other adaptations of any of the novels in The Adversary Cycle books or with F. Paul Wilson's iconic character, Repairman Jack. I think OSJ wanted to write a Repairman Jack adaptation for one of his short prose collections before he passed away.

There was actually a plagiarism lawsuit against Stanley and Miramax won by Steve MacManus and Kevin O'Neill of Fleetway Comics, the publisher of 2000 AD / Judge Dredd. A notice was added to the VHS / DVD releases of Hardware giving MacManus and O'Neill a writing credit.

I am taking leave from 15 December to 5 January so there will be a Veilguard bender in there somewhere.

Yeah, the M.A.R.K XIII is nightmare fuel. And a fitting name for genocidal robot given that chapter 13 of the Gospel of Mark is where Jesus talks about the end of the world.

My thoughts:

2024 Game Awards nominations are out. Spoilerized for size.

I kinda stopped taking it seriously when they ranked Human Centipede 2 higher than The Haunting and The Devil's Backbone.

I don't think you can blame the kid for her attitude. Her mom was the worst enabler and kept stringing the boyfriend along because she was too cowardly to commit to the relationship or tell her kid the real story about her deadbeat dad. And yeah, your theory holds water. I had similar ideas about Sting's nature.

Oh the story is as great as it ever was even though it skips around a lot. It was just sad to see the artwork fall off so much. On a happier note, the legal BS with Hardware has been cleaned up so it was announced that there should be a 4K blu-ray release very soon that includes a metric fuckton of extra shit. The full article at JoeBlo

I will be on night duty starting at the end of the month and then I am going on 3 weeks of leave so If you guys don't see me around 'til next year around this time, don't fret. I will rise again.

In re Speak No Evil. I was trying to think up something profound to say about the Good Man's Conundrum, but I really can't put it better than Herbert Lom did in The Dead Zone. Stephen King, philosopher. Who knew?

So I hate to break this to you, but the quality of the animation from E1 of Uzumaki to the final episode drops dramatically. It's really kinda bad. So bad that the Metacritic ratings tanked overnight. Junji Ito cannot catch a break, I swear.

I am getting the Pixel Remaster for myself and my brother for Christmas. We are old men. We will both die before we finish the entire collection.