Good news and bad news for all STRANGER THINGS marks. First the bad: confirmation that the next season—as in, the next after this one, the fourth, which is this one, so the *next* one will be the fifth—will be the show’s last. Not unexpected, as the only way for the series to continue beyond that…
Month: March 2022
NECA News!
The New York Toy Fair went virtual again this year due to the Rona. (Pardon a bit of editorializing, here, but it’s time to get past that kinda stuff. Rona isn’t going to go away, ever, and we can’t continue to live life on pause. People who refuse to get vaccinated are gonna get Rona.…
EIGHT FOR SILVER/THE CURSED and PC-ism
We should have expected it, shouldn’t we? While the movie pulls no punches in showing us the mistreatment and murder of Romani people by wealthy Anglo landowners—the massacre scene is disturbing as hell, just as it is supposed to be—and never for an instant offers even a suggestion to the audience that the action was…
EIGHT FOR SILVER/THE CURSED: A Sequel?
The movie did not do well financially. It barely made it into the top ten, earning a little under two million. Based on those returns we shouldn’t expect a sequel. Fortunately this isn’t a movie one would expect to spawn a franchise, anyway, and it isn’t likely to affect the way studios view Horror as…
Spoilerific Discussion on EIGHT FOR SILVER (THE CURSED)
They need to market those teeth. Make replicas to sell. I want one. Silver werewolf fangs. Yes, please, and thank you. What’d you think of the largely hairless werewolves? Personally I loved them. They looked more like some versions of THE THING or the creatures from SLEEPWALKERS than what we’re used to seeing in our…