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This week's television rules! There's the long-awaited Robot Chicken Star Wars special. Henry Rollins wants to know if you have the "warrior gene." Big Bang Theory does the JLA! Plus live(ish) comedy from Ricky Gervais, Jeff Bridges...and Monty Python. More »
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Nothing says holiday celebration better than this fantastic Cthulhu-worship scene from Stuart "Re-Animator" Gordon's best movie of the new millennium, Dagon. Gordon is a master of Lovecrafty material, and this retelling of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" stays true to the original story, though the director adds a few, um, kinks of his own. While our hero tries to escape, his girlfriend is becoming a naked holiday feast in this Cthulhian ritual to Dagon. I love hearing all the fish-frog people chant "Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!" This is a simple, bloody tale of a group of friends whose boat is wrecked off the coat of a tiny Spanish fishing village. Turns out this village long ago turned to Cthulhu worship so that they'd catch enough fish to sell. And once in a while they have to sacrifice a few people to keep up the old fish deliveries from the deep. Oh and also, they intermarry with Cthulhu's spawn so much that they are all turning into fish-frog people. This is one of the best cinematic adaptations of a Lovecraft story you'll ever see, by the way. It's pulpy, scary, and worth a look. [Dagon via IMDB] More »
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