Steve D
Whoever recommended Autofocus to the group/gang/board should be hogtied (unless, they like it, in which case they should be horsewhipped). Poor Bob Crane was dragged through the mud. The movie went nowhere. And more questions were raised than answered. Whoever made this movie--I'm warning you, stay away from the George Reeves Story--unless you use Gene LeBell's version of his death.

Steve D
All right, didn't that finale to Smallville smack of the the Godfather ending (I mean "stylistcally," not "funnily")? And didn't that Angel finale smack of the Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid ending? And yes, I loved both finales. Looks like Clark might just be returning in some new duds. Now let's see if Star Trek can finale equally with the hype building up to it.

This is japanese editions covers. What do you think?

Does anyone seen Hammer House of Horror?(Japanese title was Akuma no Igyo)

A few days ago, I bought DVD. When I first saw this TV drama, it was about twenty yeras ago, and the program was televised on a TV-Tokyo(channel 12) in midnight. This drama is made by England, 13 episodes. Contents is occult, suspense,werewolf,witch,psycho,ghost,demon doll...

Performers were Pierce Brosnan, Peter Cussing, Brian Cox. etc...

For the first time in twenty years, I saw it again on DVD. This is classical drama,but I felt new stuff.

Hi there. Does anyone out there remember an 80's sitcom about two single mom's with their kids. Most of the show appeared in the OTHER mom's house - any ideas on title of the show , female stars, characters names - a friend has asked me, and I can't recall what it was - HELP PLEASE someone ?<P>thanks, kevin

I just watched Frankenstein (nod to Repairman Jack's James Whale marathon) which I hadn't seen in a long time and am not sure if I ever saw in its entirety. It surprised me that Dr. Frankenstein's assistant's name is actually Fritz, not Igor. Where did the name/idea of Igor come from?!?!

I hope I've scooped the board with this one. As reported by creature-corner.com yesterday:

"Knock it all you want, but goddamn do I love Michael Mann's The Keep...and I'm resting a bit easier these days knowing now that Paramount is on the case to give the flick some respect on DVD.

According to Davis DVD, who has happened upon a wealth of release date information, The Keep will street November 30th. Ask for more details and I'll tell you nothing 'cause there is no more to tell. Although, I suspect as we draw closer to its release we will find out whether the disc'll be bare bones or come with a little extra goodness (hmm, I think I'll go with door number one).

The Keep was a 1983 release loosely based on an F. Paul Wilson novel of the same name, and I mean loose. Mann heavily stylized it, of course, and in doing so probably dated it too with his funky high contrast visuals and synth score by Tangerine Dream. Gabriel Byrne, Jurgen Prochnow, Scott Glen, and Ian McKellan star in this film which follows two German troops in World War II who are sent to guard an old keep in a Romanian pass. Each of their leaders hold separate ideals about the war and these difference rise to the surface when something within the keep is released."

Let the ranting begin....

Cemetary Dance - the most frustrating of publishers. Why do we even encourage them by forking over our hard earned readies with the promise of upcoming books when we all know they'll mess around for ages and keep coming out with crappy excuses - I'm sick of them. I've had Slade's Death Door paid for for 18 months and I keep getting told it's coming, it's coming. Same with fpw's stuff - more delays. I was very p***ed off having to buy a hardback copy of Sims after spending a small fortune on the CD version only to get half a bloody book!!!! Now the same's going to happen with Midnight Mass - I got an email today saying Sims4 & MM will be out in the summer.
Borderlands and Grant don't treat their customers like this (in my case they haven't anyway).

Thanks for listening to my rant - I just got the email from CD so I'm a tad miffed!! I'm away for a Partagas robusto and a 15 year old port to calm my inflamed senses!!
Have a good weekend everyone
cheers!!
Steve, Bonny Scotland

I missed out on ordering the Cemetery Dance Limited of this first title in the series. For the past year or so, I've been watching eBay and the other secondary markets trying to pick up a copy. It's been priced anywhere from $75.00 to $125.00 (sheesh). Anyway... if anyone else missed out, Barnes & Noble.com has some in stock for the $35.00 cover price. Mine arrived today, and now I'm a happy completist.

Anyone seen the long preview for this? It is M. Night Shamalans new movie that comes out this summer.

Looks really good. But I say that because there are two scenes in the preview that remind me of things that just scared the crap out of me as a kid.

First, the premise of the Village is that they live in this nice little village in the early days of America and there is some sort of bad thing that lives in the forest around them. But if they don't bug it, it won't bug them. The village is surrounded by torches on the perimeter of the village/border of the forest.

Well, the kids have a game they play at night were one of them stands really close to the edge of the woods with his back to the woods, and trys to stay that way for as long as he can....I can remember doing that when I was a kid, I lived in the hills and there was a story/area urban myth about a murderer named "Hacksaw Harry" who was last seen in the woods above were I lived, we used to do the same thing, see who was the bravest by standing with our backs to the woods. Was very tense and scary.

Then there is a scene when I guess the bad things are coming into the village to do whatever bad things do, and everyone is hiding, there is a blind girl in the movie and she is waiting for her boyfriend to come back before she will hide, she has her hand outstretched to the outside while the bad things are tearing things up, saying she knows her boyfriend will be coming..

Reminded me of when, growing up my bedroom was in an unfinished basement. So we didn't have light switches, just a string hanging from the light bulb in the middle of the room. I can remember being terrified that while blindly groping for the light string at night, that I was going to touch something that shouldn't be there...gives me the creeps thinking about it now...

Hope the movie lives up to my initial impression.