Word: horror
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...with girls furtively delivering hand shandies (though the filmmaker doesn't show the offending organs), and the cold, unfelt sex doesn't make for aesthetic delirium, but then neither should it. This is cinematic confrontation that resists escape. Kim Tae Yong's Memento Mori is a contemporary teenage-lesbo-horror-psycho casserole that keeps its clothes on and takes the time to show emotional need, longing and the denial of love. It's a chick flick for the new world of Asian sexual cinema...
...Danilov has realized the flaws of his Marxist ideology. The film does not glorify the Russians, it glorifies heros, and certainly this strategy is better than the glorification of the Red Army. However, the deification of Vassily at the end of the film detracts from the overall sense of horror that we glean from the devastating scenes...
...more important. Still, students continued to obsess over scores. Four years ago, in an effort to ease some of that stress, Mount Holyoke cut back on the number of tests it required, making the more subject-specific SAT II's optional. But the admissions staff continued to hear SAT horror stories--about applicants spending $845 an hour on test prep, for example. So the college went a step further and conducted an informal study of the SAT's role in its admissions. It showed that the scores bore little relation to how well the students performed once they were...
Where is Mary Shelley when we need her? Please, somebody, let the cloning of humans be only the stuff of a gothic novel--today's tale of Frankenstein's monster--instead of the unspeakably true horror story you published. DONALD T. SANDERS Madison, Conn...
...found out about "King Kong" from "Famous Monsters of Filmland." This was a magazine founded in 1958 by a guy named Forrest J. Ackerman, a true enthusiast of horror films (nowadays he'd be putting up an obsessive web site with hundreds of pages). If there were people screaming, "Famous Monsters" covered it: the latest Vincent Price film, Japanese monster flicks, any flavor of Dracula or Frankenstein. There were stories on makeup, on directors, on actors, on special effects techniques. There was the "Fangmail" and the monthly "Horrorscope." The back of the book sold items like magic kits...