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"Asylum"
"The Legend of Hell House"
"Torture Garden"
"Colossus the Forbin Project" is one of my favorite cautionary Sci-fi classics. I think it qualifies quite well as a horror film too.
A super computer is designed by a brilliant computer scientist to coordinate all of America's missle defense system in the event of an unexpected nuclear attack. Colossus over time becomes self aware, discovers that the USSR also has a similar computer system, and integrates itself with the other system (Called Guardian) to gain access to Russia's nuclear arsenal too.
Eventually Colossus holds the entire world hostage to its will, and demonstrates its determination to show it means business, by detonating two nuclear ICBMs, one in the USSR and one in the USA.
Still a gripping picture.
She was an elegent lady of some 70's sort or another. I think she was Scandanavian.
One good rule as Rula Lenska will tell you
Is to apply lots of Oil of Frito Lay.
Hell yeah! Hellraiser I & II!
That old black 'n white movie with Christopher Lee, about a small New England town, and its mysterious witch colony?
That's a good one!
O you simpering simp, O you of the unvirtuous pimp.
OOO yeah! Professor Quatermass investigatin' the millions year old alien space ship and the pit, and all the strange devilry and mass insanity surrounding it!
I saw that movie when I was very very small, and figured that the world was comin' to a close, that we'd all finally come to - that's all.
& Kevin Smith Makes Another Bowel Movement.
What else is new?
The Korean horror story "A Tale of Two Sisters" is said to be poised pretty soon to be remade into a new American version, whether it'll be any good, is a matter of speculation.
A really flipped out, great ghost story, from the creepy crypts of Korean horror movies, is a movie entitled "R-Point."
"R-Point" is about, and is set during the Viet-Nam war, and concerns a platoon of soldiers sent in to retrieve a mysteriously lost platoon.
Little do the hapless men of the retrieval company realize that they are walking over a centuries old, ancient mass grave, and are wandering into madness, their own mental undoings, and death.
Great ghost story.
"R-Point" R-eal pointedly scarey. Really.
Good luck gettin' folks to the polls. The hour of the shape of things to come is unfolding.
The auton-o-mouse republic of Klytistan has already mailed in his absentee ballot, and awaits the word on a wing, the hopeful tidings, of what the future might bring.
There can only be one!
Kevin Smith is a 20 something dumbass goin' on 40.
"The Mist"
What's out there in the mist....?
Probably the best screen adaptation of any Stephen King material I've seen in many years.
"The Signal"
Television sets everywhere begin recieving a strange signal that induces a state of extreme mass psychosis in a terrified town called Terminus.
Excellant indpendent production with a story that goes in wildly unexpected directions.
Are you working on bein' Donald Chump's number 5 wife?
The power of the plunger
That is the question
At this most momentous inter-section.
Just thought you should know
He's the new troll of the day.
I think back to two Bush terms, and how people are often quite astonishingly, quite dumb....
"The time fer choosin's comin' real, like ya know, pretty soon, and 'a like, hey diddle diddle, and like, I'm the riddle in the middle, and the moose mooed over the moon..."
Whether tis nobler to the mind
To shuffle on shadowy
A republic of hobgoblins 'n fear
OR to carry forth newly refreshed
A country the world can once again respect
And even indeed once again repectfully
revere....?
Be ye not cheaply played
Nor bought
Nor toy top swayed
Unto the sunken ranks
Of Sarah Palin's moose herd
Parade...
no.
that was something reaks.
Its name was Ferraro
Sarah roasted
A moose's weeny...
Are scurrying frontwards and back
Leftwards and right
All perchance to spare America
Four more luckless years
Of awful night...
And other spam-o-grams
Republican mailed
Voter enducements
Enjoining the fruits
Of two-faced
Political prostitution...
have you filled out an absentee ballot
to add your own vote to
who takes home the presidential prize?
It's Palin simple
Zitto-heads
Pus-filled
McCain-inflamed
Ugly pimples
Smith is as sharp as his sensational "shitshot."
His shit is - old.
The times will be a changing
Or just merely re-deranging....
Don't be a loon
This is reality
Not some kinda
tom reed cartoon
Is better than a McBush ruling the land
Enjoy a full meal
And then take matters into hand...
Always catches the nasty worm first
And as wormy as McCain has run his campaign
Bird bellies should all be on the verge
Of beginin' to burst...
Vice-president
Almost as golden
As the praises
Of an infamous
War crimes
Death row resident....
...and if the choice is McCain/Palin it's cruisin' for a bruisin'....
Is all well and good
My understanding does in fact extend
To understandingly understood.
Subjects in Israeli film
Would be far more stimulating
If it took into full account
Israel's recent awful history
Which has little cause for glib celebrating
To your worried and fevered brain
One mustn't be petrified in fright
By the Gorgon and the McCain...
The tall tales just grow much taller
As Sheherazad claims back her copy of "The Arabain Nights"
Nor the Golden horde, nor Tamber Lanes' golden sword, no!
Nor the Mighty Khan, nor Richardo Mantalban, no!
But merely Obama, cast in a ridiculous republican melo-drama
yes.
"Get thy slacker ass hence
And get thyself OUT to the polls..."
I hope your faith is well placed
I'd hate to wake up wednesday
To find a world in disgrace
you've been makin' a substanceless stench
for three solid weeks....
you're a little yellow belly
cos when the goin' gets tough
you just get all nervous and smelly.
The Jerky Boys are back!