As you may have read in our newsletter, on this day in 1966 New York City experienced the smoggiest day in the city's history... and the details read like a horror movie. After 9/11, the NY Times touched upon three [...]
As you may have read in our newsletter, on this day in 1966 New York City experienced the smoggiest day in the city's history... and the details read like a horror movie. After 9/11, the NY Times touched upon three [...]
Imagine the horror this poor little girl must have felt... the things that might have rushed through her mind as she realized she was dying at the hands of a young looney. I can imagine. When I was around 11 I [...] Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge...
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Blogger Melissa Lafsky, the latest editor of the blog The Infrastructurist, joined the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast today, where she chatted with hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven about the site that she described as an [...]
File this under bad planning: it seems like every week Hollywood offers up yet another schlocky horror movie to the court of public opinion, but today—on the always-spooky Friday the 13th—there isn't a horror movie in sight. Someone cue up the Price is Right horn! As we do' [...]
The nation watched in horror at the toll of dead and injured from the evil carnage at Fort Hood. Yet President Obama seemed insensitive about it. In his comments on the incident it was like he was reading a traffic report on the beltway. Even worse it was not even [...]
Monday: Vertigo
Halloween might be over, but that doesn't mean the scares have to stop. We wouldn't go so far as to call Vertigo a "horror movie," but Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock ratchets the tension to such unbearable levels that parts of it are more terrifying than anything [...]
If you you are looking for something cool to do the weekend of 12/04, stop by my high school, the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, for their production of the Little Shop of Horrors…as part of the three day run of Little Shop, the [...]
Did you know Frankenstein was a vegan? (Well, he was rather pale.) In Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic horror novel, the man made monster says, “I do not destroy the lamb and kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford my sufficient nourishment." What a" [...]
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Everyone expected a horror film to be at the top of the charts on the weekend before Halloween... just not this horror movie. Paranormal Activity landed in first place over the weekend, scaring up $22 million and upsetting Saw VI in the process—the latest edition in the torture [...]
