When I was sixteen, I knew all about the holy trinity. Dick Smith, the father. Rick Baker, the son. Rob Bottin, the...heir apparent. Needless to say, my mother, the minister, was a little disappointed--and concerned. But for a splatter-fiend sophomore, those FX gurus...
I remember it like it was yesterday. I stood there in the video section of Sam Goody, debating.? I had twenty bucks in my pocket so the $9.99 price tag wasn't the intimidating part.? That wasn't the reason my stomach fluttered and knotted all at the same time.? It was...
He could've just as easily played Santa Claus. He was big and happy and gentle and he could've made the perfect Kris Kringle. But instead, he became famous by wearing the skin from other people's faces and hanging victims on meat hooks. His name was Gunnar Hansen, but...
So you had your identity stolen.? Maybe your bank account got hacked because of the great Target credit card breach of Ought-Fourteen.? Perhaps you even got busted talking to dudes that you thought were dudettes on Ashley Madison.? If that's the extent of your...
It usually begins with the look. That bewildered double-take, like they?ve misheard. It?s part disbelief, part revulsion, like when you find a Band-Aid in your Whopper, or when your wife surprises you with The Vagina Monologues tickets. The egocentric statements...
For years, we thought the most frightening thing about William Shatner was his acting. Then, in 1978, an enthusiastic group of creators took a rubber mask molded in his likeness, mussed the hair, widened the eyes and painted it white. And moviegoers everywhere...
Show me one movie where things work out wonderfully in a fallout shelter and I?ll show you Blast From the Past. Otherwise, Hollywood?s track record for happy ending fallout films is about as successful as the Brooklyn Brawler?s WWE career. Warner Bros.' latest...
If Christopher Lee is involved, you can bet there is gonna be some crazy Dooku going down. Whether slurping sanguine sips from the necks of fair maidens as Dracula, smacking Gandalf around for a spell as Saruman or routing rebel scum as the aforementioned Jedi...
