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Disconnected Viewing

sita brahmin.jpegI don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James revisited his favorite childhood books. And it's true—he did inspire me. But it's also true that I don't have cable.

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Hammering Away at the Here and Now

mapinternet-small.jpgLet's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about the real world outside your electronic realm?

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Pilgrim's Progress

Pilgrim 80.jpgFormer Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005.  Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."


There’s a girl sitting on the subway. She’s 16 or so, in a brown corduroy jacket and a pair of faded sneakers, her feet propped on the seat across from her. She’s absently brushing on lipstick, absorbed by Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life: Volume 1.

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Results tagged “horror” from The Cultural Gutter


Zombies in the News

Seven zombies had their day in court and struck a blow for zombie rights.
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Sunday of The Living Dead

A Unitarian minister preaches a sermon with the theme of "zombies."
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No to Zombie Apocalypse!

Katie Doyle doesn't want there to be a zombie apocalypse....
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Shaft vs. Scarface

Shaft vs. Scarface, and other comics based on (mostly 80s) movies that should be.
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Frankenstein Roams the Fairgrounds

The ever-excellent Frankensteinia looks at a time when Frankenstein's creation roamed the fairgrounds.
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Yokai by Gojin Ishihara

The ever-wondrous Pink Tentacle is waving around creepy children's book illustrations by Gojin Ishihara. They're like the little lure on an angler fish and I'm totally going for it.
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Cthulhurotica

Share your most tentacular and... tentual?... erotica with Cthulhurotica. I bet they'd even take your H.P. Lovecraft/August Derleth slash fiction...
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Sharktopus Trailer

Sharktopus is now a film, but my heart is still with Bearsharktopus.
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Cthulkhulele

Swank up all your cultic rites with the Cthulkhulele.
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Even More Fewdio

Our friends at Fewdio are at it again with some new horror shorts, including "The Cellar" ("Vampires don't sparkle, they burn") and gangsters robbing a disabled old man in, "The Prey."
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Comically Vintage

"Meanwhile... a hideous group of subversive paleocomicologists plotted plotted schemes in the dark!!" Those schemes come to fruition in panels scanned at Comically Vintage!!!
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NES Groove

Do you enjoy the music of NES games? Well, there's a show just for you. This time, the music of "Fester's Quest."

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Alien vs. Ninja

400 years ago ninjas fought an alien, or possibly aliens. Alien vs. Ninja.
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Nightmare Detective II

We could say something clever about "what things dreams are made of," but Nightmare Detective just doesn't lend itself to the cute. It looks like Nightmare Detective II doesn't either.
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FantAsia 2010

Dread Central has the schedule for FantAsia 2010 in Montreal. This year has a special focus on organized religion with a screening of Ken Russell's The Devils and Serbian genre films with a screening of A Serbian Film. which people have found hard-going.
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Another Interview with Ray Harryhausen

The BBC has a nice interview with Ray Harryhausen, Stop-Motion and SFX Overlord!
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A Prowler Through The Dark

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“In off the moors, down through the mist bands/ God-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.”  (Beowulf. Seamus Heaney, trans. 710-1)

I have seen many adaptations of Beowulf, from art house films like Beowulf and Grendel and low-budget science fiction like Christopher Lambert's Beowulf of the future to Neil Gaiman's Beowulf and its rotoscopery and The Thirteenth Warrior's stealth adaptation.

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Collect'em All!

Ed Wood, Jr. trading cards. Includes starlet Dolores Fuller, Bunny Breckenridge, Lyle Talbot, Vampira and Tor Johnson!
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Genre on TV: Fantasy, Zombies

HBO has a teaser up for George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones.  Meanwhile, AMC has a clip up of actors learning to act like zombies for its upcoming The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman's comic.
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Silent Hill 8 Trailer

Silent Hill continues to trouble travelers in this trailer for Silent Hill 8. Seriously, a prison bus is about the only way anyone would go there now.
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Of Note Elsewhere
Neat 3D animated adventures-- "Star Wars: The Solo Adventures."
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Jason Powell looked at every issue of Chris Claremont's run on the X-men. Every issue. (Sorry about the previously missing link).
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DC heroes and villains combine with LEGO to make for awesome.
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Brian at Shelf Life Clothing Company has put together an awesome display of "The Greatest Movie Stunts of All Time." As well as, the first volume of "The Greatest Movie Soundtrack Composers."

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Slick, coldblooded action in "10 Photos Capturing Moments of Spontaneous Badassery!"
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