Horrorthon Posts

Take a ride

Monday, July 6th, 2009 Horrorthon Posts

Trolling through the wilderness of bittorrent, what did I happen upon but an 11.58 GB archive containing 168 issues of Heavy Metal magazine, beginning with its debut in September 1977 and extending (sporadically) thirty years to March 2007 (comprising about half the total run). The collection also includes 9 “related publications” (like the 1979 Alien […]

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George Pal vs. Roland Emmerich

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Horrorthon Posts

George Pal was a fair-to-middling producer/director of high-concept sci-fi spectacle movies in the 1950s (like “Destination Moon” and the original “The War of the Worlds”). In other words, he was the Roland Emmerich of the Truman/Eisenhower Era. Anyway he made a movie called “When Worlds Collide” in 1951 (based on a novel of the same […]

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Nobody likes my posts!

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Horrorthon Posts

My remarks about the awesome-looking new disaster movie 2012 just below are the latest in a series of Jordan posts that nobody seems to care about (except octopunk, who’s kind enough to spare me a sardonic remark out of pity in between his diaper-changes and Spider-Man archivia). Was it something I said? Where’s the love? […]

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