7 posts in 7 threads for "$THNG"
- Creature features are back and I have the $CRTR chart to prove it
$THNG is the blue chip here. Every creature conversation eventually routes through it.
- Your October 31 watchlist, from breakfast to the last trick or treater
…PLTG while I carve. Dusk: $HLWN, obviously, porch light on. Late: $THNG, because nothing says 'the candy is gone' like paranoia in the snow.
- Writing a monster you never fully show
…gn is strange enough, showing it fully can be the scariest thing. $THNG shows you a lot and it still feels wrong every single time.
- Feature request: email alerts when something on my watchlist moves
…are about. Right now my watchlist is a sticky note on my monitor ($THNG, $SHNG, $FOLK and a couple of newer titles) and I check the Home maybe nine times a day. I would love a simple email when a heat…
- Halloween watch party planning: launch night double features
… door, hot cider. Double feature: $JAWS for the families at dusk, $THNG after the kids go to bed.
- Best practical effects of all time (opinions required)
$THNG. The creature work is ambitious to the point of madness, and it still looks like nothing else. It taught me more about staging a reveal than any class did.
- Cosmic horror is hard to sell. Is $COSM just a critics' index?
…. You cannot show the thing, so you sell the faces looking at it. $THNG gets away with it because the paranoia is the hook, not the creature.