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Do you like your zombies with a little bit of humanity and heart? If you do, you’ll love Warm Bodies. It’s the tale of a zombie named R (Nicholas Hoult) that is going through his mundane existence of shuffling, grunting and eating brains until he sees Julie (Teresa Palmer). It’s love at first sight for R, and an unexpected side effect of his newfound feelings is that R starts to become alive again. The hard part is convincing Julie’s father, General Grigio (John Malkovich), the […]
Walking Dead returns from the mid-season break with one the goriest scenes ever. Glenn and Maggie have vague relationship issues, Daryl and Merle decide blood is thicker than…other people’s blood, and Rick finds a whole bunch of toys in the attic. Woodbury’s Daryl versus Merle deathmatch erupts into a riot when the two try to stage an escape, and Rick , Maggie and Glenn lay down covering fire (Maggie seems to take aim and take out a young girl). They bust out through a hole […]
A number of Gothic.net staffers spent the week around New Year’s in Las Vegas. There was no Mayan apocalypse, but we got a little apocalyptic on our own. Besides staying up late, gambling, and drinking unusual mixed beverages, we also went to the DoubleDown to see some band I never heard of. The DoubleDown is this tiny little club, which seems to contain most of the Las Vegas dark club life, at least the portion which does not include domination upsells. I go to a […]
Shain Erin is a Neo-Mythic artifact artist whose interests lie in sculpture, painting and digital media. Boasting a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, Erin explores his passion for world art and mythology. Over the years he has been examining a personal mythology that would allow him to use his own ideas and creations, while at the same time he could honor and reference some of the actual world art traditions. His exploration guided him toward fashioning a line of morbid dolls. These dolls, […]
All of the Governor’s secrets are exposed in the mid-season finale of the Walking Dead. Glen is revealed as the biggest bad-ass of all, Carl’s in charge, and the Battle of Woodbury goes down in the history books. The first thing we hear is a woman screaming in the woods, leading us to a new, small group of survivors. These survivors are apparently even worse than the main group was last year. There’s no way they could have lasted this long with that woman screaming […]
Walking Dead this week featured a father and son having The Talk, more uncomfortable nudity than you ever want to see again, zombie cognition experiments, and Glen on hardcore mode. As the show sets things up for the “mid-season finale,” all of the ambivalence is swept aside. Characters that previously had muddy motivations and questionable intentions are revealed as pure evil or heroic champions. Merle starts right off with a racist tirade about T-Dog, then tortures and beats Glen. To wrap things up, he unleashes […]
This week’s Walking Dead was all about…well, I don’t know what it was all about. Some people died. There was serious gore. Plot lines were entangled. We found out who called Rick on the phone. Merle was Merle and Michonne was Michonne. Let’s start with the situation back at the prison. Rick talks to the the mystery girl on the phone and finds out they live in a dreamy safe place. He wants to go to there. She says she’ll call him, maybe. Later, Hershel […]
This week’s Walking Dead might have been the grimmest yet. I think I just saw the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen on TV. The kicker is, I’m not even sure which of the horrible things I saw this week was the most horrible. The episode is titled “Killer Within,” which seems to refer to the mystery person we see at the start, luring some walkers with a deer carcass, then breaking the chain on the prison gate. Mystery person’s walking seems labored, but there […]
In “Walk with Me,” Walking Dead served up a tasty slice of the past, then unveiled a bizarrely bucolic future and the best aquarium ever. Who is the Governor? What’s Michonne’s relationship with her zombie pets? What do you get for the man who has everything (except his own right hand)? The episode’s “previously on” reel featured a recap of season one events involving Merle, Daryl’s brother who was left on a roof in Atlanta handcuffed to a pipe, forcing him to cut his own […]
It turns out that one of the most marketable skills in the zombie apocalypse is just being good at killing zombies. Rick gets decisive, Carl mans up, Carol plays zombie doctor, and everyone mourns Hershel’s leg. Things pick up right where they left off last week, with the zombie kill crew fighting to stem Hershel’s bleeding and a small band of prisoners looking on in awe. Even though one of them has a gun, the survivors pretty much ignore them, get a cart, wrap the […]
