I probably prefer it to the original simply because the original makes me actually queasy, so I can’t actually watch it. I’m actually a fan of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake with Jessica Biel. I don’t mind it if the resurrected film is at least on a par. What do you make of Hollywood resurrecting those films from our childhoods? It’s apparently going to be a sequel not a remake, taking the Jurassic World approach, like thirty years on. Back then they weren’t afraid to push the envelope and so Gremlins is just… I’ve never seen it on the big screen, it’s always on TV and it really does encapsulate a very specific time of my life and a lot of other people’s lives.Ĭhris Columbus is producing. You’d get away with cursing, with partial nudity, with all of these things that you would not have a chance with in a PG movie today. It was a choice between Gremlins and Ghostbusters.īack in the eighties, when I was just discovering pop culture and horror culture, movies for kids were a lot more adult than they are these days. So when Harper Collins came to me with the idea that maybe we could show a movie or two, it became basically a journey to find which two movies, one for a general audience and the other for adults, could I show to pretty much encapsulate the ideas behind the series. The entire Demon Road trilogy is a love letter to American horror, books, TV, comics, movies. And if there’s anything Skulduggery hates, it’s torture… Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing’s for sure: evil won’t know what’s hit it.Let’s talk a bit about Gremlins and A Nightmare On Elm Street, the two films you’ve chosen to share with your fans.

Though he’s about to discover that being a skeleton doesn’t stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. When all hell breaks loose, it’s lucky for Skulduggery that he’s already dead. Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source – the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn’t fiction. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out… Stephanie’s uncle Gordon is a writer of horror novels. She’s… well, she’s a twelve-year-old girl. Skulduggery Pleasant is a wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, and master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Skulduggery Pleasant Synopsis: Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy is the first book in the series of the same name. If You Like Skulduggery Pleasant Books, You’ll Love…

Note: Skulduggery Pleasant is also known as Scepter of the Ancients. The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire is a prequel to the series.

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