Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

My Shudder Pick of the Month is the Rock-Solid 2019 Horror Anthology The Mortuary Collection

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 10, 2025Clancy Brown, Horror anthology, horror anthology, EC Comics, E.C., Tales From the Crypt

I'm Pleasantly Surprised That Trump's Re-Election Didn't Drive Me Back to Drinking

I worried that Trump’s re-election would make me fall off the wagon. I was relieved that it did not.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 9, 2025Donald Trump, alcoholism, drinking, alcohol

Brad Dourif Month Continues With This Piece on 1998's Urban Legend

It’s Scream, except with urban legends instead of movies. And also terrible.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 8, 2025Film, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Scream, Brad Dourif

I'm Concerned That the Response of So Many on the Left to Trump's Re-Election is to Give Up, Give In or Switch Sides and Go Full MAGA

In 2016, we resisted. In 2024 we’re giving up and giving in. That’s not right.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 8, 2025Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg

Brad Dourif Month Continues With a Fond Look Back at the Bonkers Cult Classic Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Grab your lucky crack pipe and relive the magic and the madness of Werner Herzog’s demented 2009 dark comedy Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,

Sub-CultNathan RabinJanuary 8, 2025Nicolas Cage, Abel Ferrara, camp movies, b movies

George Romero's Intriguingly Odd Season of the Witch is a Horror Movie Without Horror and a Softcore Romp Without Sex

One of you kind souls paid me to write up George Romero’s intriguing feminist sort-of 1973 horror movie Season of the Witch.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJanuary 8, 2025George Romero, New Hollywood, witches

There Are More Dignified Ways of Celebrating Nicolas Cage's Birthday Than By Rerunning This Piece on Amos & Andrew But It's The One We're Going WIth

Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.

Jimmy Carter's Genius and Common Touch are the Focus of One of My Favorite Saturday Night Live Sketches

Jimmy Carter’s death reminded me of one of my all-time favorite Saturday Night Live sketches, a Walter Cronkite-hosted call in show where Carter helps solve a technical problem at the post office and talks a 17 year down from a heavy acid trip.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 7, 2025Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Jimmy Carter, Saturday Night Live

Brad Dourif Month Continues With 1984's Dune

My patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen continues with a fond look back at David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune, which I deemed a Fiasco when I covered it for My World of Flops but that I now adore.

In Honor of Brad Dourif Month, I'm Rerunning This Piece on 1994's Color of Night

One of you kind souls paid me to re-experience the exquisite absurdity of Richard Rush’s gloriously kooky 1994 erotic thriller Color of Night.