Horrors, 10/19.

"Wicked, sexy, utterly out of control, she epitomized proto-goth bloodlust, and I dug it like it was my own gorgeous grave, with a satin-lined casket built for two. I mean, which boneyard did this erotically rotting babe-thing come from?" Linnea Quigley is coming to Austin, and the Chronicle's Marc Savlov recalls when he first saw her in The Return of the Living Dead.

Bill Gibron at PopMatters: "In a career that has spanned three decades, several sensational films, and a genre-defying approach to narrative, Cronenberg has managed to locate the fear inside the most fundamental aspect of existence – life itself – and as a result he created a canon where being human is the most potentially precarious thing a person can do."

Also: An annotated list of "craftsmen who found a way to make their sole scary movie attempt effective," five films that "stand out as perfect examples of horror's 'one hit wonders'."

"[T]he combination of Nightbreed's monumental scope, superb production design, and amusingly forgivable flaws warrant its reevaluation," argues Brian Elza at Facets Features.

Slant's Ed Gonzalez on Imprint: "Everything you've heard about this Masters of Horror episode, which was too violent for Showtime to air on cable television, is true, though I imagine some of its carnivalesque gore may even come as a shock to Miike cultists."

"Braindead is the magnum opus of Peter Jackson's early career, retaining the stop-motion and bloodletting of Bad Taste and the puppetry and slapstick sexual exploits of Meet the Feebles," writes Rumsey Taylor. "The film's craftsmanship is ingenious, but the enterprise is not in service to thrill or frighten (as, I say very generally, Jackson's films that follow are) in as much as it is to separate more callow viewers from their lunch." Also at Not Coming to a Theater Near You, Jenny Jediny on The Wizard of Oz: "Has there been a better death scene for a fantasy villain? The Wicked Witch shrieks like a banshee as soon as the water hits, and she is angry."

At Cinematical, Scott Weinberg has the winners of the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards.

Posted by dwhudson at October 19, 2006 4:12 PM