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...good one. In the horror genre, King and Romero represent the opposite poles of safe commercialism and bizarre individuality, but here they both go back to their common root--the pulp comic book. The short vignette, already used to great effect in such classics as Tales from the Crypt and the marvelous Dead of Night, is the perfect medium to evoke the atmosphere of horror comics--those brief blurry flashes of primary-colored terror framed by win-great-prizes-selling-junk-door-to-door and x-ray novelty eyeglass...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: The Horror, The Horror | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

...just ate and did what he wanted, restaurant lunches downtown in Brewer plus the Rotary every Thursday, it begins to pack on. The town is dark he runs through, full of slanty alleys and sidewalks cracked and tipped from underneath, whole cement slabs lifted up by roots like crypt lids in a horror movie, the dead reach up, they catch athis heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Crisis of Confidence RABBIT IS RICH by John Updike | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Script and crypt have always crept menacingly side by side in Kubrick's imagination. This latest film explores the death of love in post-war (and pre-WAR) America. It depicts the horror of a people who watch their own bloody past on TV, paint a bloodier future in books and movies Kubrick's included), and sit nervously waiting to be swallowed by an inevitable, self-destructive evil...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Night in Shining Horror | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...Cramps pursue their vision with a messianic zeal. "Garbage Man" delivers the ultimate manifesto to those who think the Cramps are nothing more than the Munsters on dope and to those punky types who believe themselves too cool for the crypt...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: The True Trash Aesthetic | 4/26/1980 | See Source »

...number of foreign bishops, in El Salvador to attend the funeral, carried Romero's coffin out of harm's way into the cathedral, where it was sealed into a crypt in the east nave. The crowd huddled inside the church for more than an hour, well after the shooting stopped. Then clergymen, mothers with infants and terrified nuns emerged slowly in single file, with their hands on their heads as a precautionary signal to possible snipers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Something Vile in This Land | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

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