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Jenkins, Amy Acker and Whitford in The Cabin in the Woods.

The Cabin in the Woods Is a Pixelated Nightmare

On the advice of a friend who described The Cabin in the Woods as the next cinematic “happening” in horror and mayhem, I bit the bullet and suffered through a creepfest so stupid it makes trashy slash-and-burn epics like Humans Versus Zombies and I Spit on Your Grave seem like Molière and Proust. Some films have to seek their own audience like oil seeks its own level in water. Others arrive with a preordained sort of word-of-mouth anticipation that cannot be explained. This is one of them.

A testament to the wonders of writing under the guidance of crystal meth, this nightmare spoof of everything from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the Scream franchise totally defies logic, and pretty much eludes description. Read More

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Game Over, Old Sport – Gatsby Goes Online

Sometimes people invent themselves a history, sometimes they invent the history of a video game. 

A web developer claimed that he bought an unreleased Japanese Nintendo game called ”Doki Doki Toshokan: Gatsby no Monogatari” at a yard sale for fifty cents and put an English version of The Great Gatsby 8-bit NES-style game online.

This isn’t Read More