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The Curator of Schlock #456: The Beekeeper
I was trying my best to stir the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, to consciousness. He groaned. “Come on, man,” I said. “Get it together. Orlando needs you!” As I shook the Revenging Manta, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was being watched. I turned myself around and shined my flashlight… Continue reading
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Episode 620: A Discussion of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, with Jared Silvia!
In this week’s show, John talks with Jared Silvia about the 2023 film, Asteroid City, and look at how Wes Anderson and co-writer Roman Coppola counterbalances surges of emotion with layers of artifice, which is a mixed metaphor, we know. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Join Jared Silvia and other members of Energy Wheel in this upcoming writer’s… Continue reading
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101 Horror Nights #4
with your host, Dmetri Kakmi The Old Dark House 1932, USA Director: James Whale Cast: Ernest Thiseger, Gloria Stuart, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton It is hard to know where the horror film would be without gay filmmakers. Perhaps not surprisingly, homosexual men have found a home in the codified language of horror, opening new doors, founding surprising… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #454: Enemy Mine
The lights had just gone out in the Museum of Schlock and I was frantically trying get my flashlight to switch back on. I furiously tapped the back, realizing I should have bought Energizer instead of saving the three cents by buying No Frills. The bulb flickered on. My hand shook as I strobed my… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #453: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
“It’s a zombie! It’s a zombie,” the ski-masked punk yelled as he tried to wrestle free from the clutches of a corpse I had on display in the Museum of Schlock. The other gang members were busily trying to crucify the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, to a wall in the exhibit.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #452: Night of the Living Dead
The ski-masked punk started slicing the neck of the corpse with his free hand. The fingers on his other hand were stuck in the corpse’s mouth due to a supposed muscle spasm triggered in the deceased man. He kept hacking away at the neck to no avail. As he was about to take another slice,… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights #3
with your host, Dmetri Kakmi Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1931, USA Director: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Frederick March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Edgar Norton On a recent visit to Edinburgh, Scotland, I stayed in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Georgian terrace. It was grand, to say the least. From my room in the upper reaches of the house… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights #2
with your host, Kount Dmetri Kakmi The Phantom of the Opera 1925, USADirector: Rupert JulianCast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry The history of the horror film is the history of the ugly and the deformed. In the outer reaches of the human mind, to be unsightly is to be monstrous and evil. If you are… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #447: The Postman Always Rings Twice
I was feeling rather unsure of myself as I wandered around the fourth floor of The Museum of Schlock in the middle of the night without my kangaroo companion to protect me. As I made my way to The Beyond exhibit, I could see gang members dragging the slack body of the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #446: The Return of Count Yorga
I made it up to the fourth floor of the once regal Museum of Schlock. I whispered for Edwige, my steadfast kangaroo companion, but she was nowhere to be seen. I made my way over to the exhibit for Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond. Acquiring the desiccated corpse of the Zombie Schweick cost the museum a pretty… Continue reading
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