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Horror Thursday: Circle

Yesterday, Horror Thursday returned to Man, I Love Films after a long and unexpected absence. That's the problem with recommending a super tech-heavy show for a high school you work for: you're committed to making sure all the bells and whistles go off properly. I basically

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#31DaysofHorror The Lazarus Effect Review (Film, 2015)

At its core, The Lazarus Effect is a Frankenstein story. A group of doctors attempt to eliminate the divide between life and death by experimenting on euthanized animals with a new medical serum. The succeed with a dog, only to discover the serum does much more than revitalize the body.

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 13: Frankenstein #31DaysofHorror

Ah, Frankenstein. I've said it before and I'll say it again. You're either a Frankenstein person or a Dracula person. I'm a Frankenstein person, myself, and try to influence my students to come to the science fiction side of horror. Since I

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#31DaysofHorror Tetsuo: The Iron Man Review (Film, 1989)

There's no sense trying to define a plot for Tetsuo: The Iron Man. It's essentially a series of very 80s experimental video shorts strung together into a very loose thematic structure. One man chooses to inject himself with metal, while another transforms into metal. That'

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 10: Alien #31DaysofHorror

Don't blame me. I'm not the one who created American Horror Story: Asylum, forever conflating aliums with whiny characters and animal mutilation. Graphite crayon on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"

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#Drawlloween 2015: Day 9: Eyeball #31DaysofHorror

When I saw the theme for Drawlloween Day 9 was eyeball, I knew what I had to do. I love drawing eyes. I'm good at it, too. I wanted to get another entry done for the Chiller Theatre Expo art contest and, from my experience there, they respond

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Are You Ready for More X-Files?

When I was growing up, Fox was the channel to watch. It was the new kid on the block and aired programming no one else would dare to. Married with Children still holds up as an act of sitcom rebellion and those early The Simpsons episodes still air censored before

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Fourth Annual Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge – Sketchy Details' List

FINAL LISTIt's that time of the year again. Our friends over at Cinefessions are hosting their Fourth Annual Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge. This is now a summer institution at Sketchy Details, as I've competed every year this contest has existed. You can join me, too, by

Games

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games Review (PC)

Let's call Doctor Who: The Adventure Games my biggest surprise of 2014 so far. I knew the game existed and was always tempted to purchase it. I'm a big Doctor Who fan and that's justified a lot of shopping my life so far. But

Film

Bang Bang Baby Trailer

There are no words strong enough to describe my reaction to this trailer? Sci-fi musical masterpiece comes closest. Judge for yourself while I start working on cosplay and fan art for Bang Bang Baby. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPeVHaOm4AA?rel=0&w=560&h=315]

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Lovecraft on the Silver Screen Panel, ConnectiCon 2014

This weekend at ConnectiCon, I debuted two brand new panels. The 18+ panel was called Lovecraft on the Silver Screen. It was an exploration of the best and the worst attempts to bring H.P. Lovecraft's stories to film. Unfortunately, there were some major tech issues during the

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Cinefessions Summer Scream Challenge Wrap-Up

As of 12AM this morning, the 3rd Annual Cinnefessions Summer Scream Challenge is over. I scored a respectable 293.75 points in 30 days of viewing sci-fi and horror films and TV series. I spent a lot more time on TV this year for the score factor and it paid

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The Pacific Rim Universe Grows: Sequel, Cartoons, and More

This is not a drill. Do not adjust your dial. Everything is going to be okay. Guillermo del Toro has officially announced that Pacific Rim will be taking over the world. The beautifully shot, wildly entertaining, and kick-ass female character-starring kaiju v. mecha film is getting a whole lot of

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Godzilla Review (Film, 2014)

15 years ago, an unexplained disaster hit Japan, wiping out a nuclear reactor and killing Joe Brody's wife Elle. Now, in 2014, his son Ford is called to Japan to claim him from police custody. Joe has convinced himself that he can prove the disaster was not an

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Night of the Creeps Review (Film, 1986)

In Night of the Creeps, the aliens have already landed and we were never meant to know. The one infected human, a frat boy, is cryogenically frozen in 1959 for study. However, a fraternity initiation prank in the 1980s goes horribly wrong when the two pledges assigned with snagging a

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Horror Thursday: The Toxic Avenger

I wasn't even sure I could actually write a review of The Toxic Avenger. I'm a fan, for sure, but it's kind of impenetrable in its own way. The Troma team wasn't setting out to do anything traditionally cinematic with it and

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Horror Thursday: Galaxy of Terror

This week, we're looking at Galaxy of Terror over at Man, I Love Films. Why? It was the bonus viewing for the sci-fi/horror theme week in the Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge. I did it for the points. Horror Thursday: Galaxy of Terror

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Third Annual Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge (#CSSC3) Sketchy Details' List

It's back! Cinefessions is running their annual horror/sci-fi film watching challenge and Sketchy Details will participate for a third year in a row. I've always managed to pop up near the top of the scoreboard and I don't intend to stop that trend

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Horror Thursday: Maximum Overdrive

Stephen King is notorious for changing his feelings about his film adaptations. One consistency, however, is his claim that Maximum Overdrive is the single worst adaptation of any of his stories. Funny, since he himself adapted and directed this schlocky howler of a technology gone bad horror picture himself. Horror

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Lovecraft on the Silver Screen @ ConnectiCon 2014

That's right, good people. I will be presenting my long-gestating panel Lovecraft on the Silver Screen at ConnectiCon 2014. This is a panel looking at the best and worst of Lovecraft films. We'll be discussing the challenges of adapting Lovecraft's weird fiction to visual

Reviews

Kill la Kill Review (Anime, 2013-14)

In an unidentified future, there sits an elite academy on top of a city. Student council president Satsuki Kiryuin holds power over the school, establishing an elaborate militaristic caste system defining every student's role. Level 2 and higher students receive technologically advanced uniforms that transform into battle-ready suits

TV

Explore: Doctor Who Timelord Timelines

The BBC has released the most incredibly nerdy interactive infographic ever. They have mapped all of the time travel over twelve regenerations of Doctor Who (the War Doctor included). It's astonishing. The first thing I did with this, as I do with all infographics I come across, was