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In movies like Die Hard (and even moreso with its various sequels), the number and pace of evil henchmen deaths tends to be a little hard to follow. Still, they’re all quite spectacular, and it would be nice to have some visual cue by which to remember all those cool kills (as was done with [...]

Hey, today is Mother’s Day, and because we’re in a giving mood we’ve assembled a veritable listicle of listicles for this most special of Hallmark holidays. Let’s kick things off on a positive note with SciFi Scanner’s listicle of 10 Movie Moms Too Fantastic To Be True, our favorite of which is, and always has [...]

Though horror devotees often display a ritualistic distrust of movies that try to fuse other genres onto a horror structure, we believe there’s something to be said for the giddy recombination of generic registers. After all, so many of the greatest horror films are also extremely funny (Suspiria, Friday the 13th, etc.). David Wellington of [...]

It’s Friday the 13th again, and it’s Freudian Fridays again, so time for some subconscious slasher movie psychoanalysticle synergy. As Sigmund (or Siggy as we now call him) would tell you if he were still around and an avid consumer of splatterfest films (which he totally would be), killers in such movies are often motivated [...]

Hey, it’s Friday the 13th.
British 13 year-old (who looks about 7 years old) becomes a father.
Obama’s stimulus bill passed.
New York’s “Miracle on the Hudson” optimism negated by a fatal plane crash in Buffalo.
A naked picture of Madonna fetches $37,500.
The woman who held the world record for longest fingernails broke them in a car crash.
I cannot [...]

In keeping with our coverage of Friday the 13th (incidentally, the film with that title that’s a sequel to the first film with that title comes out today, check out my point-counterpoint with The L Magazine’s Henry Stewart) we’ll all be cuddling up tonight with a big bowl of popcorn and a stupid-scary movie, right? [...]

Today is a rather weird day, no? It’s both Friday the 13th (the first of two consecutive Friday the 13ths, we might add) and Valentine’s Day Eve. (It’s also three days before Presidents’ Day, an entirely separate can of worms.) How are we to feel on a day loaded with such contradictory meanings? Scary? Romantic? [...]

As we’ve reported in previous editions of our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays, phallic forms are among the most potent and clearly legible symbols of power in our patriarchal capitalist society. Though it’s strategically dangerous to represent phallic power with an actual penis (which is perpetually vulnerable and, by and large, not that impressive), elongated objects [...]