Finding good horror while adhering to a spend-thrifty budget
Sometimes good things come to those who wait and sometimes a bargain bin can be your best friend. When I wrote my last column on “Diablo II” I was prompted to see if I could score other finds while also adhering to a spend-thrifty budget. And you know what? It’s not that hard. Recently I had t ...
Read MoreActor talks about how he got the role of Duke, and the joy he is experiencing working on 'Haven'
If you watched the latest episode of Syfy's “Haven,” you were treated to an exceptional performance by Eric Balfour in his role as Duke. In the episode, Duke is exposed to something that has caused rapid aging and death in two other victims, and unless Audrey and Nathan can do something fast, (l ...
Read MoreLooking back to examine the spirit of the times
Oh the year 2000. So much promise, so much innocence. The world had just survived Y2K and the term 9/11 was innocuous, a number to call when a first response team was needed. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were a few years away and Hurricane Katrina and FEMA were then terms unknown. With so little ...
Read MoreSee where BlipNetwork reporters are going to be!
Wow, I can't believe San Diego Comic-Con will be all over tomorrow. But first, we get to one of our busiest days, which doesn't feel like it, because I won't even be at the convention myself until around lunchtime when I hobnob with the voice and creative talent behind the recently revived show "Fut ...
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Although I didn't feel I did too much Thursday, my first day at San Diego Comic-Con has me exhausted. It's just after 1:30 in the morning, and I have to be up early to do some press roundtables of some of the new shows coming to television this fall -- which you'll hopefully be reading about before ...
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Happy first day of Comic-Con! I am sitting at Tampa International Airport right now in Florida, and it's about 7:30 a.m. local time waiting for our flight, which leaves for Dallas in about an hour, and then on to San Diego. Traveling with me is Bryant Griffin, the editor of Rabid Doll, since ...
Read MoreProviding tips and tricks to enhance your enjoyment of the event
If you’re a reader of Rabid Doll, you have probably heard of Comic-Con, the pop culture convention located in San Diego, Calif. It’s a four-day long mashup of television/movie/comic fans, guaranteed to overwhelm any novice. I am a long-time convention goer, and even I was a little thrown by ...
Read MoreBreck Eisner's suspenseful remake arrives Monday on DVD, Blu-ray
Don't let "The Crazies" fool you; it may looks like the latest installment of a sub-genre that has already been done to death, but in reality the movie relies more heavily on psychological suspense than scenes of grotesque horror. A product of George A. Romero, the original "The Crazies" was neve ...
Read MoreConfronting the many fears of an unknown, undiscovered land
Lately I have become interested in the idea of Western and have been delving into this vast and fascinating genre. There is something ominous and menacing about the western genre that I find most interesting. Westerns are eerie. Sometimes they’re even a little bit spooky. Imagine a tumbleweed blow ...
Read MoreNew Syfy series based on the Stephen King novel 'The Colorado Kid'
Stephen King is an amazing author to read, but I have to hand it to television and movie producers: Adapting King's work is probably one of the toughest jobs to do. The beauty of King is that his words allow you to create pictures and scenarios in your mind that is almost unique to every single r ...
Read MoreCould two subsets of the genre start to dwarf the rest?
Vampires are all the rage lately, with seemingly endless variations of the vampire myth being retold in unique ("American Vampire") and downright terrifying (I will sparkle you with love) ways. One cannot walk into a bookstore, movie theatre, or rent/buy a movie or video game without coming into ...
Read MoreTJ Rosene will look at the history of horror and its wonderfully creepy culture
Editor: "Through the Past Darkly" is a new biweekly column published Tuesdays. Welcome to the column titled “Through the Past Darkly,” a new space dedicated to conversing with the dead. Well no, we won’t really be conversing with the dead, but it will be a column dedicated to unearthing old ...
Read MoreRabid Doll gives an early review of Adam Green's new film, in theaters Friday
Trapped on a chairlift and lashed by icy winds, three skiers face true despair in "Frozen," a cringe inducing descent into desperation. "Hatchet" director Adam Green helms "Frozen" based on a script he wrote, which strands a couple and their friend on a chairlift, forgotten by the ski resort as a ...
Read MoreTrinity strikes again as Dexter stalks a vandal
By Melissa Girimonte This review may contain spoilers. Dexter is stranded in suburbia when Rita takes away his keys following his car wreck. Unable to party it up with his Dark Passenger, Dexter is forced to attend a neighborhood watch meeting about a vandal on the loose. After the meeting, De ...
Read MoreThe stresses of concussions and lost bodies
By Melissa Girimonte This review may contain spoilers. Dexter’s sleep deprivation has become even more of a problem when he falls asleep at the wheel and crashes his vehicle. He wakes up to find emergency workers extracting him from the wreckage, then remembers that he was on his way to disp ...
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