Balls and Walnuts
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Tangent Online reviews . . .
For what it’s worth, my reviews are up:
“Different Flesh” by Claude Lalumière (but you might also want to check out PBW’s comments, below).
Top of the page at Tangent, you’ll find E. Sedia’s review of Apex #4, and Paul Abbamondi’s review of Shadowed Realms #9.
Also, many thanks to Hedgehog and SxKitten for telling me how to show off my ass to best advantage. They don’t teach these things in school.
D.
Pestopia →
For pure Golden Age spoofery, nothing I’ve seen can top Top of the Food Chain (also known in the USA as Invasion). It’s got an Atomic Scientist, vacationing in the small town of Exceptional Vista, who discovers that someone (aliens? local cannibals?) is killing and eating the residents. There’s a lot of innuendo in the movie, and a couple of gory scenes, and lines like:
Old man: Good ol’ Charlie, he died in his sleep, watchin’ TV.
Atomic Scientist: Well, if you’ve got to go, that’s the–
Old man: Yep. His dogs waited for him to fall asleep and then they tore him apart.
Check it out, it’s pretty bent. And did I mention the innuendo?
Pat, that sounds GREAT. I’ll have to look for it — just my kind of schtick.
You must have seen Mars Attacks!, right?
They don’t teach these things in school.
Maybe you just went to the wrong school 😉
Yeah, I saw Mars Attacks! in the theatre, long long ago. Long enough that I think the theatre itself is closed down, possibly even demolished by now. (It was a dank little hole of a place, shaped like a bowling alley, and when it rained there were seats you didn’t want to sit in. But back then there were only two theatres in town, and Tuesday night flicks were $3.00. Canadian.)
Mars Attacks! was fun. Someday I think I’ll have to rent it, and enjoy it again…
Thanks for the Tangent shout out!
I enjoyed your review for the Amityville House of Pancakes. Quite intriguing that you immediately bought the author’s book. That’s some spell she cast on you! 😉