November 2006

Day of the Dead

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 Horrorthon Posts / Horrorthon Reviews

The zombies are better. There’s no question about that. Day started very strong, with the helicopter-level view of the blasted-out landscape and the much-improved zombies staggering around. The subsequent portion introducing the setup in the underground base was intriguing and suspenseful, and the mad doctor trying to “domesticate” the zombies (having tacitly given up on […]

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Video of UCLA Tasering Incident

Friday, November 17th, 2006 Horrorthon Posts

I’m posting this because it’s absolutely horrifying, and because it’s germaine to the site: critics of horror movies and violent video games etc. are constantly remarking that violent entertainment “desensitizes” people to actual violence. I say bullshit (and always have) and I offer as a case in point the just-posted You-tube video of the UCLA […]

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Cell

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 Horrorthon Posts

I’m not sure what kind of Horrorthon post this is—whether it’s a review or just a normal post like we do when it’s not October—but I just read Stephen King’s Cell and I wanted to talk about it and see if any of you fine gentlemen had read it.As far as Horrorthon’s recent posts, what’s […]

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