Movie Nightmares and Scary Movies

As a boy of seven I spent a sleepless night myself after watching the movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)”. Kevin McCarthy plays a small-town doctor who learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. McCarthy does a great job of selling the hysteria of such an alien encounter. Although by modern standards the movie is not full of shock and gore, for its time it is a great “B” movie experience. This movie is a classic in horror and Sci-Fi being remade…

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Simpsons At 30 Years – Infographic

From its first step into the limelight as a series of shorts on the Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons phenomenon has come a long way. When it was first shown on Ullman’s show, it was certainly not as polished and pristine in terms of production that it is today but nonetheless, the sketch show provided the perfect platform and springboard to get it noticed and catapult it to the mammoth worldwide brand that it is today. The Simpsons is not just an animated TV comedy show, it is a multi-billion…

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Bat-mobile Info-graphics 75 Years Old

After 75 years of omnipresence, one can make a very strong case that the Batmobile is the most iconic automobile in all of pop culture history. Since Batman’s debut back in 1939’s “Detective Comics” #27, the caped crusader has always relied on a car — usually a stylish, feature-loaded one — to get him from his cave to crime scenes. As a crucial part of the Bat-mythos, the Batmobile — dubbed such in 1941’s “Detective Comics” #48 — has appeared in everything from comics and cartoons to films and video…

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All Batman Costumes in One Convenient Infographic [Art]

Benjamin Andrew Moore impresses us greatly with this remarkably thorough chart which tracks every major revision of Batman’s costume, starting from its first appearance in 1939 and all the way through 2012’s Batman: Earth One drawn by and Gary Frank. See the full-size image Click image above.  This is brought to us thanks to ComicsAlliance.com. It shows all the versions on Batman costumes in history of the character since Bob Kane  in 1939. Batman is an classic hero who has survived over the years and actually gained in popularity for…

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