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The Supernatural Love Story that was Never Resolved
Even though the finale season of Supernatural had its flaws, there was one very powerful moment that I thought was one of the best scenes in the show. During one tense confrontation against Death herself, Dean and his best friend, Castiel, are forced to run away from her as she chases them down. They find themselves at a dead end inside of a room, while Death attempts to break the door down.
By Emy Quinn3 days ago in Horror
Donna from Twin Peaks Has Become the Most Annoying Character on the Show
I loved Donna in the first season, but her character in season 2 is now becoming so irritating to watch. I don't mind her insistence on wanting to know who killed Laura, because Laura was her best friend after all, but the stupid love triangle she is involved in is ruining her character for me.
By Emy Quinn5 days ago in Horror
The Prophecies
It's hard to conceive of a television show quite as good as the near-forgotten and buried late Eighties classic "Friday the Thirteenth: The Series," which starred John D. Le May, the beautiful actress/model Robey (Louise Robey), and Chris Wiggins, as a trio of paranormal sleuths that owned, collectively, an antique store that sold Uncle Vendredi's (E.G. Marshall) demonically cursed items. Even the wonkiest plots had the best scenes, the best death scenes, and delivered a wallop of atmosphere and genuine thrills for the discerning genre viewer.
By Tom Baker6 days ago in Horror
My Life Under CIA Control
How the CIA Used My Mind as a Battlefield—and How I Won It Back In the summer of my sixteenth year, while my peers were learning to drive and obsessing over prom dresses, I was being taught how to disappear. Not physically, but mentally. I was being dismantled, piece by piece, by men in white coats and gray suits who viewed my consciousness not as a human soul, but as a territory to be conquered.
By Irshad Abbasi 11 days ago in Horror
Twin Peaks: Lonely Souls is the Best Episode of the Series
Twin Peaks has been a fantastic show, but episode 7 from season 2 is hands down the best episode of the entire series so far. So many pieces of the puzzle are finally coming together for Laura Palmer's murder, but the last thing we see before the episode ends was a shocking reveal that left me feeling disturbed and scared.
By Emy Quinn12 days ago in Horror
The Last Car
One of the weirdest television episodes to ever air, "The Last Car," Season 2, Episode 19 of "Tales from the Darkside," has all the earmarks of an absurdist, surrealist dream. It's the sort of short film that David Lynch might have admired, something that could have been transposed onto the template for his "Twin Peaks" without skipping much of a beat. Like every dream (in this case, an interminable nightmare), it must be interpreted, picked apart, and digested for meaning and symbolism. What is this metaphor saying to the viewer?
By Tom Baker15 days ago in Horror
Double Trouble
"The Hitchhiker" and "Freddy’s Nightmares," two Eighties anthology horror sleaze series that epitomize the era’s vast anxieties about rapidly changing social norms, each feature first-season episodes that hint at dark, twisted psychological mechanisms. No surprise there. Each, in its own way, opens up the mental sewer below the viewer, revealing the catarrhal slop that flows, like feculent sludge, beneath the conscious mind, in that dark netherworld of the limbic system where monsters dwell.
By Tom Baker16 days ago in Horror
Twin Peaks is a Unique Crime Masterpiece of Mystery and Twists
I have finally finished the first season to Twin Peaks, and I have to admit, I haven't been this addicted to a TV show like this in a long time. The characters, the plot, the multiple betrayals along with twists and turns that I never see coming, including a possible supernatural twist…this season is a masterpiece.
By Emy Quinn18 days ago in Horror
I Have Watched the Strangest Moment in Television History
I recently watched the ending to episode 3, that showed the strangest sequence in a television show I have ever seen in my life. FBI Agent Dale Cooper claimed that he was having odd dreams, that were helping him solve the case of Laura Palmer, who was found murdered in Twin Peaks.
By Emy Quinn19 days ago in Horror
Twin Peaks is One of the Most Interesting and Horrific Pieces of Media I Have Seen in Years
I kept hearing about all of the type to Twin Peaks, ever since I was a kid. I knew that David Lynch was the one who directed the show, and I immediately became intrigued after I had watched Blue Velvet and Eraserhead. I was beyond curious to know how David made the TV show format work with his odd directing skills, and I am now super obsessed with the show.
By Emy Quinn22 days ago in Horror
The Cart . Content Warning. AI-Generated.
In the dim pre-dawn of the House of Light, intake officer Kobayashi wheels his cart into Room 7-B. One line on the clipboard remains blank: F-A37. No name. No case. No resolution.
By Shahinr Rashidi23 days ago in Horror
Saturday Night Special
The thin veneer of beauty covers a deep and bloody pool of despair. The desire to be the Unobtainable Object of Desire sends deep tendrils beneath the soil of our being. It's a good thing that a razor-fingered dream demon is there to remind us that Fate, cruel Fate, will gobble up the fantasies that fuel us, leaving us withered and decaying husks of expectation, humiliation, and human want.
By Tom Baker27 days ago in Horror