Random Ramblings from the Vault...

• How startling was it to see John Lithgow's naked ass on the season premiere of Dexter? Never saw that on Third Rock!

• How sad is it that One Missed Call was actually ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the second worst movie of the past ten years?

• As nostalgically charming as they may be, the Monogram films of the 1940s are largely proof that every era had its share of bad movies, including the decade of Casablanca, White Heat and Notorious.

• If you had to nail it down to a definition, would you say that the baby in Grace is a zombie? Semantic, yes. But I must know!

• Can someone please explain to me why New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are not among the 13 markets currently showing Paranormal Activity?

• I found Jennifer's Body highly enjoyable, despite the best efforts of Diablo Cody's pretentiously self-aware dialogue to derail it at every turn.

• There really needs to be some kind of deluxe, box-set treatment for the films of Lucio Fulci. Somebody make it happen.

• Suspiria may very well be the creepiest movie ever made. It is also an absolutely breathtaking work of art at the same time.

• Little-known fact: Evil Dead: The Musical was actually professionally filmed for inclusion on some deluxe DVD release of the movie, but it never happened. If you have the opportunity to track it down somewhere, take it! Great, great fun.

• How can the character of Barbara be in a Night of the Living Dead prequel, when she only first encounters the zombies at the beginning of Night of the Living Dead??