New York Times tech reporter Taylor Lorenz joins MST3K’s Jonah Ray and former Ringer host Dave Schilling’s new podcast Galaxy Brains to discuss how technology has changed how horror works. Cell phones might undo the scares of Friday the 13th or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but iPhones and Fitbits might turning everything into David Cronenberg’s Videodrome.
Best New Scary Horror Movies Now Streaming on HBO Max (May 2021)
Best New Scary Horror Movies Now Streaming on HBO Max (May 2021) including ANACONDA, Wes Craven s CURSED, MORTAL KOMBAT (1995), David Cronenberg s RABID, and more.
Anaconda, Wes Craven’s
Rabid,
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
While still a boy, Abraham Lincoln loses his mother to a vampire’s bite. He vows revenge, but fails in the attempt, narrowly escaping with his life. He is rescued by Henry (Dominic Cooper), a charismatic vampire hunter who instructs Abe in the fine art of dispatching bloodsuckers. Abe (Benjamin Walker) continues his fight against the undead well into adulthood and his presidency, making a last stand against the ultimate vampire foe (Rufus Sewell) on the eve of the Civil War’s defining battle.
This Is What Peter Weller Has Been Up To Since RoboCop
This Is What Peter Weller Has Been Up To Since RoboCop Orion Pictures
By Patrick Phillips/May 4, 2021 11:34 pm EDT
Somewhere in the middle of the silly sex comedies, socially-conscious dramas, and bombastic one man against the world spectacles of the 1980s, Hollywood brought us Paul Verhoeven s RoboCop, a grueling dystopian actioner about a slaughtered Detroit police officer (Peter Weller) resurrected in the form of the titular half-man, half-machine super-cop. Depicted with reckless, gory abandon and a flair for gritty hyper-reality, RoboCop was also one of the few distinctly over-the-top 80s action flicks that didn t shy away from the gun-loving, drug-addled, capitalistic divisions fueling inner-city turmoil across the country. That it did so while becoming a bona fide box office hit seemed to come as a surprise to everyone involved.
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“I had a censored childhood, so my first truly disturbing horror experience happened embarrassingly late. I was well into my college years when I was forced to watch David Cronenberg’s
Videodrome [1983] for a class. I hated the film when I first saw it. I found the bizarre body horror irredeemably disturbing, and I couldn’t get the image of a pulsating VHS tape being inserted into James Woods’ gaping stomach out of my head. But I came crawling back a few months later and worked my way through all of Cronenberg’s ’80s/’90s canon. He’s truly a master of burning disgusting images onto your retinas for life – the exploding head in
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