Tag: Joss Whedon

  • 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…

  • Feminine Submission to the Vampire by Angel Ackerman

    Feminine Submission to the Vampire I have noticed in my decades of existence that creatures in the horror genre—whether books, television or film—experience ebbs and flows of popularity. Using mass market fiction as an example, Anne Rice ushered in a new fascination with vampires, then much later JK Rowling prompted an interest in witches. The Twilight series…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Horror Television

    Tune into Horror Television Horror television hasn’t always been easy to find, and when you did, it was most certainly of the family friendly variety. Even so, homes across the land engaged in many evening shows from the 1960s to the present that have tantalized our minds. Whether drama based or with a splashes of…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Scooby Gang Horror

    Why Scooby Gang Horror Rocks The “Scooby Gang” has been a thing since Scooby Doo and company drove around in the Mystery Machine to thwart ill-tempered adults as meddling kids are apt to do. As a sort of horror sub-genre, the idea of the Scooby Gang came to light with Joss Whedon’s phenomenal Buffy the…

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Angel Ackerman

    The Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer There is a limit to how many times a person can watch the movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I now know I have surpassed mine. We undertook this dreadful precursor to the television series as the teen is a huge fan of the Buffy-verse. She has watched…