Word: demon
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More movies should be like “Demon Seed.” That’s right, “Demon Seed,” the trashy 1977 adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel about an evil computer that impregnates Julie Christie. I should also mention that the computer, whose name is Proteus, uses a bronze metal phallus.Why must we look back in disgusted admiration at such an objectively absurd film? Certainly not because American cinema is in need of more misogyny, more rape scenes, or more metal phalli. Rather, our horror films—which are supposedly...
...Doom and DM have met before, with promising results. The supervillain dropped a verse on Danger’s remix of Zero 7’s “Somersault.” Earlier this year, Doom appeared on a track on the Gorillaz album “Demon Days,” which was, coincidentally enough, produced by Danger Mouse...
...last person who hasn’t read the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you can buy the set at this science-fiction bookstore for $3.50. Or if newer fiction is what you’re looking for, Pandemonium offers such choice picks as Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer...
...that vampires are vulnerable to wooden stakes and sunlight, but modern television has come up with an even better weapon: cute high-school girls. Buffy the Vampire Slayer exterminated ghouls for seven seasons in the U.S., and now with the new series Blood+, Japanese TV has its own miniskirted demon killer, Saya, who speaks softly and carries a wicked samurai sword. This being anim?, however, she won't be hunting your classic Bram Stoker-style vampires, but rather vicious, blood-sucking anthropoids that devour humans whole. Right now, your inner 11-year-old should be getting really excited...
...very first page of Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie's new novel, the reader has a horrible presentiment that a literary disaster is in the making. Rushdie is trying to describe a woman speaking in her sleep: she is "like Sigourney Weaver channeling a demon in Ghostbusters." This is the kind of bathos?the desperation to prove his hipness by making asinine references to pop culture?that helped sink Rushdie's last novel, Fury, generally acknowledged to be the worst he has written. After a first-page blunder like this, it requires a leap of faith simply to turn...