When indie rapper Mac Lethal launched a Tumblr blog to share the profanity laced, English-challenged, semi-delusional text messages that his cousin Bennett sent him, he had no idea it would become such a phenomenon. Now, three years and several million pageviews later, the site has evolved into Texts from Bennett,…
September is here and school is back in session. Okay, now that you’re all bummed out, here’s the good news: September is also chock full of great geek events. As summer fades into autumn, Denver’s geeks get to enjoy two great cons, lots of fantastic genre film and even a…
The first Ray Harryhausen movie I saw was the last one he made. In 1981, the Greek fantasy epic Clash of the Titans hit theaters, featuring some of the master animator’s finest work. I was eight years old, just about the perfect age to wholeheartedly embrace a cheesy mash-up of…
When indie rapper Mac Lethal launched a Tumblr page to share the profanity-laced, English-challenged, semi-delusional text messages that his cousin Bennett sent him, he had no idea it would become such a phenomenon. “This was never a thing that I intended on doing. It just fell into my lap,” he…
Like millions of other people across this great land of ours, my wife and I spent a few hours of our weekend drafting our fantasy football teams. I’m not going to regale/bore you with the details of my team (ahem, Aaron Rodgers, Wes Welker, Ray Rice), but while we sorted…
Singing, dancing and demonic possession have never come together quite like they do in Evil Dead: The Musical. The production, which kicks off this Friday at the Bug Theatre, combines plot elements from all three of the films –Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness — and then…
The Italian film industry is known for its knock-offs — cheap, tawdry, ramshackle productions that would borrow elements from popular films to create second-rate copies for a quick buck. Despite the methods, several of these Italian genres produced some beloved films — most notably the so-called “spaghetti Westerns” — while…
The summer-slasher Sleepaway Camp has been slowly amassing a cult audience over the past thirty years. In many ways it’s a standard slasher, built on a series of gruesome murder set pieces, but its odd moments and bizarre-twist ending go a long way to set it apart from its more…
What’s better than one classic horror movie transmogrified into a stage musical full of blood, gore and dance numbers, right in front of your eyes? How about three classic horror movies given similar treatment, and then tagged with a sweet name like Trilogy of Terror? Now, what’s even better than…
“You’ve got red on you.” Don’t like that one? How about “We’re coming to get you, Barbara!” — which serves as a clever callback to the movie that birthed the modern zombie. Maybe you prefer something like the creatively cursed “Fuck-a-doodle-doo!” There’s no question that the abundance of quotable lines…
What most people remember about Sleepaway Camp is the absolutely batshit-crazy twist at the end. But Jonathan Tiersten, who played Ricky in the film, says that’s not the real reason the movie is more popular than ever thirty years after its release. “The thing I would say about Sleepaway Camp…
The final eight episodes of Breaking Bad will begin Sunday. Over the course of five seasons, the series has established itself not just as one of the best shows now on TV, but as one of the best ever — maybe the best ever. On the eve of this final…
For ten years, The Room has been confounding and entertaining audiences. The film’s strange blend of inept performance, oblique writing and haphazard direction has earned it an ever-growing cult audience that can’t get enough of the movie’s unique charms. Sure, by most standards it a “bad” film, even a terrible…
Welcome to a new column called Geek Speak, in which we take on an aspect of geek culture each week. There is nothing quite like The Room. It’s one of a handful of movies considered “the worst movie ever” that has somehow managed to find an enduring audience. For those…
Walter White’s final stand is at hand. For five and a half seasons, the chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-kingpin has built his empire, and now, in its final eight episodes, Breaking Bad is going to chronicle it all falling down. And if you can’t stand to watch the final days of the ultimate anti-hero…
For ten years, The Room has been confounding and entertaining audiences. The film’s strange blend of inept performance, oblique writing and haphazard direction has earned it an ever-growing cult audience that can’t get enough of its unique charms. By most standards, it’s a “bad” film, even a terrible one, but…
Whether he’s performing in the Warlock Pinchers, using human blood to make art, or doing weird things with Peeps, Andrew Novick is always entertaining. That makes him a natural fit for the Denver County Fair’s entertainment director. For his second year in that post, Novick is pulling out all the…
Dana Cain has been involved in fandom since she first came to Denver, so it’s no surprise that in her capacity as director of the Denver County Fair, she went geeky. Last year, she launched the Geek Pavilion, making Denver’s fair “the only county fair in the world with a…
The Western is dead. For years, even decades, the Western genre has been a wasteland, with few new films coming out and even fewer hits. Luckily, horror fans know what to do with dead things: make them undead, so they can stand up again and start biting faces and murdering…
Welcome to a new column called Geek Speak, in which we take on an aspect of geek culture each week. The world championship of Magic: The Gathering is in Amsterdam this week. For the next four days, some of the world’s best players will compete individually for the title of…
If you only see one vampire Western in your lifetime, make sure it’s Near Dark, the final film in this year’s Cruel Summer lineup at Crash 45. Starring a good chunk of the cast of Aliens and directed by future superstar Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty, Point Break), Near Dark…
Human blood is an unusual artistic medium. Who better, then, to explore the possibilities of blood work than Andrew Novick, a man whose name is synonymous with weird art — from his time in the infamous Warlock Pinchers band to his work with Peeps? In Blood Lustre, Novick uses the…
