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It is known. And this century, we’ve had Primer, A Scanner Darkly, Coherence, The Endless, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Moon, Donnie Darko, Inception, Hard to Be a God, Children of Men…sf filmmaking is in great shape at all levels of budget from $7.000 to $150+ million, even though there’s a fair...

Chinese and Indian folklore. Still pretty current: Cui Jian, the godfather of Chinese rock, has a critical song about such types from the 1980s.

You’re welcome. :) Odd. I missed that, and have no idea why it should be so. I thought that was cool, too. Agreed there. Ever since I read Soldier Of The Mist and Everway. I’ve favored going for the meaning. But either way, consistently is good. The Maya were subject to a lot rhapsodic...

Seems like there are several different kinds of movies on that list, and only some of them strike me as “weird”. Like, Cannibal Holocaust is just gross, while Martyrs is intense and gross but with a distinct purpose that it reaches and fulfills. And I generally only regret seeing bad movies...

Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, by Paul Kane. Holmes and Watson versus Cenobites. Yes, Clive Barker’s BDSM angels/demons. Yes, really. And it works, doing justice to both sides of the mix. Kane has written a great book about the Hellraiser films and is a friend of Barker’s, and nails...

these are two of my favorites. In Grave Encounters, that moment where they break open the front door and see what’s beyond it is perfect. There’s no glitzing it up, no portal flow or shimmer, nothing but the bald of reality of something that can’t be there but is. Yellowbrickroad renders the...

You can find various productions of Godot on YouTube and some streaming channels (like Kanopy). I highly recommend seeing it, with a particular recommendation for the version with Zero Mostel. Some plays really take on multiple extra dimensions, and Beckett’s are among them.

I’m not saying this is anywhere close to a significant reason for Avatar to be popular in general, but…I needed to use a wheelchair a while in high school, and again for the last three years. For me, Jake Sully’s journey is gripping and absorbing. Likewise Sigourney Weaver’s character’s. Throws...

People who criticize unobtainium as a stupid Cameron invention are simply displaying their own ignorance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

That’s neat, and reminds me to dig out my copy of the Gazeteer to see if I’d like to use it that kind of way for Ironsworn or Loner.

Oh, I see. Yeah, that’s a gap someone ought to fill.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless_Legend

I read cosmic horror precisely because it’s not about the metaphors. I have plenty of other prose genres, and poetry, for that. I read this genre for a kind of emotional experience rendered in a context that isn’t possible in reality. I can swipe Michael Cisco’s definition of weird fiction...

I still think the best way to read Elric is publication order, but that run is also worthy.

Jeff VanderMeer is Olaf Stapledon with false whiskers. I will not be taking questions at this time. (From me that’s praise, but not from everyone.)

A bunch of the folks Lovecraft praises in Supernatural Horror In Literature: fin de siecle Decadents, Symbolists, and like that Fans of grotesquerie who influenced Giger, and Giger. William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Bruno Schulz and Thomas Bernhard. Experimental filmmakers back to Luis Buñuel...

I haven’t read anything beyond excerpts by Sanderson. I didn’t like them. Nobody is suggesting that the books would give me any more pleasure. In accord with board rules, I won’t get into my real-life concerns, since they’re political. Since I’m a middle-aged cranky person who isn’t...

I can’t imagine watching The Creeping Terror without the MST3K treatment.