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Kill Character Stereotypes by Crash
The Trope of it All… Crash Palace has written about tropes before, and Jonny Numb and Billy Crash have discussed them on The Last Knock horror podcast. Why? Because they’re redundancies and create an eye-rolling foray into malaise. They must be stopped. What’s worse? Character stereotypes. And they must be stopped even more. Stock Characters…
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The Meg by Jonny Numb
The Meg By Jonny Numb For all the clickbait thinkpieces over the past year debating where drama stops and horror begins… and for as much semantic nonsense has been expended by mainstream critics trying their damnedest to surgically extract, say, Get Out from the genre… something like The Meg is pretty refreshing. Don’t get me wrong – there…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Robert Christopher Interview
Robert Christopher and Horror Music The engaging Robert Christopher visits THE LAST KNOCK to discuss all that horror music we love to chill our bones at the theatre. We’ll not only talk about great films and their respective scores, like The Shining and The Exorcist, but how to compose and make quality music in the…
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Crash Reports: Ode to the Austin Film Festival by Paul J. Williams
The Adventures of a First-Timer at the Austin Film Festival When my phone rang one day this past September with an Austin, Texas area-code, I thought it was just another robo-call from “Jennifer” trying to sell me solar panels for my house, or “Tim” offering me a chance to consolidate my debt, but no, it…
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The Elevation of THE DARK TOWER (2017) by Jonny Numb
[95 minutes. PG-13. Director: Nikolaj Arcel] Adaptation is a funny thing. Regardless of what route you take, you will take heat from fans of the source material. Someone – online or elsewhere – will accuse you of “ruining the book(s) forever” (even though that’s total bullshit). One example in particular that galled me – Christ,…
