WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers As if social media was not deemed scary enough in the past years, with terms like ‘doom-scrolling’ associated with it during the pandemic and the idea that some of the worst types of people can reach the children of this world through it – let alone the faceless …
Scarlet Witch AKA Elizabeth Olssen
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Here’s a fun fact, I don’t think I realized that Elizabeth Olsen was in fact the sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley until she had been starring as the Scarlet Witch for a few years. Some would probably consider that embarrassing but I was never really a Mary-Kate and Ashley …
Danny Kaye (1911 – 1987)
Born: 18th January 1911 Died: 3rd March 1987 (aged 76) David Daniel Kaminsky was born in Brooklyn; the third son of Jacob and Clara, Ukranian-Jewish immigrants who had settled there two years before his birth (he was their only son to be born in the USA). A born entertainer who never graduated from High School, …
Maniac 1980 vs 2012
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers This article has actually been a long time coming, possibly middle of last year, but I hadn’t been able to get hold of the original film until now. I’ll be honest, I had big questions over Elijah Wood taking on a horror role but I’m happy to say that …
Singer to Actor: Common
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers My first introduction to Common was actually when he starred in Hells on Wheels back in 2011 so I had no idea that he was a rapper – along with the fact that rap music has never really been my thing. I haven’t finished the series but I would …
Pediophobia
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers This isn’t the first time I’ve said this, but this was genuinely a fear I had growing up. Especially as I had someone repeatedly buying porcelain dolls that just stared at me while I slept (getting shivers just thinking about it). I wanted to stay away from the Chuckys …
Gilgamesh AKA Ma Dong-Seok
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Fans of Korean cinema would have been aware of Ma Dong (Don Lee as he was credited for this film) prior to the release of The Eternals but, like the actual character of Gilgamesh, I had absolutely no idea who he was. However, I am not saying this as …
Japanese Horror
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I’ll be honest, you can’t really write about international horror films and not have an article on Japanese horror. They have brought us Ju-On and Ringu – which are creepy on their own but the Americans thought the ideas were so good that they had to remake them. Mentioning …
Heath Ledger (1979-2008)
Born: 4th April 1979 Died: 22nd January 2008 (aged 28) This is a Neighbours or Home and Away question and having watched one of them from day one I can tell you quite categorically that he definitely wasn’t in Neighbours – Heath Andrew Ledger was a Home and Away boy at the age of 18! …
101 Dalmatians 1961 vs 1996
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers As we all know, Disney have gone round making a whole bunch of their animations into live-action films. Well before they decided to do this in the 2010s with Lion King and so forth, they had already remade 101 Dalmatians back in the late 1990s. Obviously, this is one …