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Latest revision as of 17:14, 26 October 2024
Better Than News
Hard Cotton Candy is an American psychological horror film about a 14-year-old female vigilante who traps and tortures a circus barker who she suspects of being an evil supernatural clown.
Phantasm of the Universe is a science fantasy superhero horror film directed by Don Coscarelli and Gary Goddard, starring Dolph Lundgren and Angus Scrimm.
Elmville is a 2003 avant-garde horror film about a woman hiding from monsters who arrives in the small mountain town of Elmville, Colorado, and is provided refuge in return for physical labor.
Rosemary's Alien is a 2012 American horror science fiction film about a young mother who comes to believe that she has given birth to an aggressive alien invader.
Night Calories is an American anthology television series featuring stories of hunger and the macabre.
The China Thing is a science fiction disaster horror film starring Wilford Brimley, Jane Fonda, and Kurt Russell.
John Carpenter's It is a science fiction horror film about an alien parasite which disguises itself as a circus clown.
Beyond Plausible
Vampire Bivouac is a self-help wilderness retreat organization which provides camping supplies and services for vampires.
When a Stranger Thing Calls is a science fiction psychological horror television series.
The Best Littoral Whorehouse in Texas is a 1982 American musical hydrology comedy film starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.
In Other Words
Alien: Rise of the Sales Assistants is a 2023 science fiction legal drama film about a group of low-paid workers who bring suit against the Weyland-Yutani transplanetary corporation.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor?
• ... that mathematician Karl Weierstrass formalized the definition of the continuity of a function, proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals?
Selected Anniversaries
1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
1926: Magician and stuntman Harry Houdini dies. Houdini's grand illusions and daring, spectacular escape acts made him one of the most famous magicians of all time.
2009: Karl "Werewolf" Jones hosts "the greatest Halloween party ever."
Topic of the Day
Horror
Picnic of the Damned is a 1995 cooking thriller film starring Christopher Reeve and Oscar Meyer.
Julia Child the 13th is a 1980 American horror cooking film starring celebrity chef and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) researcher Julia Child.
Psicorps is a 1960 American science fiction horror film about an encounter between an on-the-run embezzler (Vivien Leigh) and a shy ESP researcher (Anthony Perkins).
Rosemary's Alien is a 2012 American horror science fiction film about a pregnant women (Mia Farrow) must choose between bearing the Devil's child and bearing an alien child.
Centipede Kane is a quasi-biographical horror film examining the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere plastic surgery barons, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.
Pulp Freman is a 1994 crime drama film about Spacer Guild navigator (Ving Rhames) who is kidnapped by Baron Harkonnen and held for ransom.
The Bedpan Zone is a 1983 medical comedy film about Johnny Micturator (Christopher Walken), a professor of urinology at a prestigious medical teaching hospital who awakens from a coma to find that his body wastes foretell the future.
"Red Red Rum" is a song by Stephen King and Neil Diamond about the romance and peril of supernatural possession.
Dark Joker is a comedy buddy film about an angry clown who befriends a decadent sociopath.
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Children of the Burger is an horror-cooking film starring [REDACTED].
New Ingredients for Old is a cookbook and memoir by Margaret Mead and Julia Child.
The Spacing is a 1980 psychological horror mathematics instructional film about tensor calculus.
The Dwarf Knight is a 2008 American horror film about a deranged physician who kidnaps dwarfs and forces them to commit a series of bank robberies.
Who's Eating Gilbert Grape? is a 1993 coming-of-age film about a deranged masked cannibal.
The Sheening is a 1980 horror comedy buddy film about an alcoholic writer (Jack Nicholson) and a hard-partying bartender (Charlie Sheen) who raise hell at the Underlook Hotel.
Children of the Wick is an active shooter child safety training film Starring Stephen King and Keanu Reeves.
Bad Roald is a 1974 social justice horror film about a famously anti-semitic author who locks himself inside his own mind.
"When Will I See Eschaton" is a song released in 1974 by pre-Apocalyptic soul group The Earth Debris, from their third album Triple Threat.