QUICK! I am writing down all of my thoughts about this before I have time to organize them. Spoilers follow the jump, DON’T READ THEM unless you have seen the movie. It is a pretty good movie, and it is worth seeing, and don’t find out anymore about it than that.
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Archive for monsters
Chris Versus the Movies: Cabin in the Woods
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, Horror, movies with tags Braak, cabin in the woods, Horror, joss whedon, monsters on April 14, 2012 by braakEigen League of Monsters, Part 7: The Stalker
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, Horror with tags Braak, Fall, Frankenstein, Halloween, Horror, Jason, Michael Meyers, monsters, October on October 29, 2011 by braakPart of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other. The first part was about the Vampire, and it’s also got my thoughts about what an “Eigen League” is and why I think it’s meritorious to discuss this subject. Long story short: in a group of monsters like the kind on the hierarchy, my theory is that they sufficiently fulfill a necessary number of roles in the human consciousness with regards to horror.
Up today is the Stalker, which is a name I’m using for a whole category of nasty suckers that you’d probably recognize on sight: Michael Meyers, Jason Vorhees, you know them, they’ve been terrorizing sexed-up teenagers for a hundred years.
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Eigen League of Monsters Part 6: Creatures, Frankenstein’s
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, Horror with tags Braak, Fall, Frankenstein, Halloween, Horror, monsters, October on October 25, 2011 by braakPart of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other. The first part was about the Vampire, and it’s also got my thoughts about what an “Eigen League” is and why I think it’s meritorious to discuss this subject. Long story short: in a group of monsters like the kind on the hierarchy, my theory is that they sufficiently fulfill a necessary number of roles in the human consciousness with regards to horror.
This one is about Creatures in the subcategory of “Made by Dr. Frankenstein.”
Eigen League of Monsters, Part Five: Creatures, Lagoon-Based
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, Horror, October Horror with tags Braak, creature from the black lagoon, Fall, Halloween, Horror, monsters, October on October 21, 2011 by braakPart of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other. The first part was about the Vampire, and it’s also got my thoughts about what an “Eigen League” is and why I think it’s meritorious to discuss this subject. Long story short: in a group of monsters like the kind on the hierarchy, my theory is that they sufficiently fulfill a necessary number of roles in the human consciousness with regards to horror.
This one is about Creatures in the sub-category, “from Lagoons and Such, Black or Otherwise.”
Eigen League of Monsters, Part Four: Witches
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, monsters, October Horror with tags Braak, Fall, Halloween, Horror, madmen, monsters, October, witches on October 20, 2011 by braakPart of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other. The first part was about the Vampire, and it’s also got my thoughts about what an “Eigen League” is and why I think it’s meritorious to discuss this subject. Long story short: in a group of monsters like the kind on the hierarchy, my theory is that they sufficiently fulfill a necessary number of roles in the human consciousness with regards to horror. Today I am going to talk about witches, because witches are a kind of monster and…
Eigen League of Monsters, Part Three: G-g-g-g-ghosts!
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, monsters, October Horror with tags Braak, crotchety ranting, demons, Fall, ghosts, Halloween, Horror, monsters, October, the haunting on October 19, 2011 by braakPart of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other. The first part was about the Vampire, and it’s also got my thoughts about what an “Eigen League” is and why I think it’s meritorious to discuss this subject. Long story short: in a group of monsters like the kind on the hierarchy, my theory is that they sufficiently fulfill a necessary number of roles in the human consciousness with regards to horror.
Today I’m going to talk about two things, for reasons that I hope will be eventually made clear: 1) Unclean Spirits, and 2) Malphas, a Mighty Prince of Hell (&. al).
Eigen League of Monsters, Part-Two: Wolf-Man
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, Horror, monsters, October Horror with tags Halloween, Horror, monsters, werewolf, wolfman on October 18, 2011 by braakPart of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other. The first part was about the Vampire, and it’s also got my thoughts about what an “Eigen League” is and why I think it’s meritorious to discuss this subject. Long story short: in a group of monsters like the kind on the hierarchy, my theory is that they sufficiently fulfill a necessary number of roles in the human consciousness with regards to horror. Today, the Wolf-Man.
Eigen League of Monsters, Part One: The Vampire
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, Horror, monsters, October Horror with tags Braak, Fall, Halloween, Horror, monsters, October, vampires on October 17, 2011 by braakIt has been nearly TWO YEARS since I first published the Hierarchy of Monsters, and in the subsequent time no one has published any modified hierarchy that is more accurate, complete, or awesome. This means that, by default, I am the internet’s leading Monsterologist. Suck it up, kids, you lost this round.
In my role as the Internet’s the World’s the Universe’s leading Monsterologist, I have come to discuss something that I’ve been thinking of as the monster Eigen League.
I Don’t Understand This Being Human Show
Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting with tags Being Human, Braak, monsters, syfy, TV, wolfman on March 23, 2011 by braak
I mean, I understand it in the sense that, “A ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf share an apartment, what’s not to understand?” What I don’t understand is why anybody would make it. The original, okay, maybe, but the American remake on SyFy, I don’t know that I get it.
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On Horrible Things
Posted in Braak with tags Braak, monsters, nazi, robot, tyrannosaurus, vampire, werewolf on June 17, 2010 by braakThere are a lot of horrible things in movies. Sometimes, these things can be combined to make something EVEN MORE HORRIBLE. Most of the time, they cannot. Dead Snow has got me thinking about some things that might combine effectively.
