October Horror Movie Challenge 2025 - Fundraising Begins!

Yes. IT'S TERRORRRRR TIME AGAIN!!!!

The thing that will not die from the depths of the IMDB message boards, the October Horror Movie Challenge, will return once more in a month's time, and I'm telling you about it now because, by doing a bit of good nice and early, you can have a big influence on how it all goes.

Just One More Thing... - The Adventures of Kal-El of Krypton Across the Phantom Zone

 So, that new Superman movie is pretty damn good huh?

Honestly, the newly reformed DC Studios couldn't have had a better title for a relaunch.  Fun, thrilling, gorgeous to look at, a perfect course correction for portraying Supes on screen.  Plus, the fact it's pissing off so many of the right wing online is ideal for me.  (They are probably extra angry that they are portrayed as :REDACTED FOR SPOILER: even though it's pretty damn spot on.)  However, musing about it, I realised that this film actually borrows an interesting narrative trick that's only been used a few times before, one that's adds an interesting little meta layer to proceedings.  To explain what I mean, let's look back some four decades and change to a sci-fi film that was somewhat less successful at the box office than Superman currently is; namely The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.

I swear, I actually do have a good point to make with this!