The Descent (2005)

Filed Under BBT Magazine, Insane People, Soylent Screen, Jef Taylor, CHUD.com, broken bones, Gollum, horror, Eyes pecked out | 2 Comments

 

BBT critic Jef Taylor goes spelunking for a good horror movie and gets more than he bargained for!

 

With Dog Soldiers, director Neil Marshall proved that he can scare the crap out of us with really foolish looking wolf masks.  Imagine what he could do with the very real life scariness of exploring, and getting trapped in, a cave.  There wouldn’t  even have to be monsters in it for it to be really terrifying.   But there are.

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The Deconstructionist: Harry Potter and the Secret Cock

Filed Under BBT Magazine, The Deconstructionist, Harry Potter, CHUD.com, Prisoner of Azkaban, Photoshop | 9 Comments

Final-Logo

A close look at things normally beneath your notice

It’s not unusual for me to begin my day at CHUD dot Com, and when I visited there this morning I was rewarded with the next chapter in the ongoing struggle to include subliminal sexual content in children’s entertainment. For the next Harry Potter film, the emphasis is on Emma Watson’s journey into womanhood. You can read the whole story here, but the short form is what natures does not provide, photoshop will ensure. This is not the first time the cast of J.K Rowling’s magical Encyclopedia Brown has been doctored to ‘draw in’ an adult audience.

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