Word: undead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This bloodsucking tale does serve the function of a standard college guide, but the introduction of the undead livens up the process. The story follows one Parker Norcross, who has found herself stranded outside Adams House without an ID card during intersession. When she discovers a staked body in the Adams Pool Theater, her vampire hunt commences. As Harvard buildings, majors, clubs, or concepts are mentioned in the story, they appear in bold and an explanation appears in a small paragraph in the margin...
Picking Tim Burton to direct “Bones,” then, works well, since both he and the Killers are mainstream populists masquerading as alternative visionaries. The song’s bone imagery plays into Burton’s undead fetish, and he directs a tediously straightforward video...
...curious omission in all three films is ... sex. Horror movies love to tantalize their (mostly male) viewers with images of lust, the better to punish it. It's a weirdly anti-life streak that runs through most vampire movies, where one dies, or becomes undead, with a single love bite; death those movies say, is a sexually transmitted disease. Even the non-supernatural horror films, from Psycho to Halloween to Hostel, tend to begin with young people having sex-play, then kill them off. Hostel, whose first 40 mins. are a-groan with luscious young women, eventually turns to more...
...because his producer "insisted we not fly, in case the Jews repeated their attack of 9/11." While in the South, Borat and Bagatov stop in a bed and breakfast that happens to be run by a nice Jewish couple - which information sets the Kazakhs fleeing as of from the undead. "Let's go back to New York," Bagatov begs Borat. "At least there are no Jews there...
...allows us to see Jack as case of arrested development , a pre-sexual child pretending to be a man of decisive action and romantic elan. Mostly, though, he's forced to give a bits-and-pieces, fits-and-starts performance, fighting for his life against crowds of the undead and the unfunny...