* Life imitates art: Two people were stabbed during a screening of the regular-people-run-amok horror film The Signal in Fullerton, California. (*) It doesn’t say so in the article, but the caption for the video report says it happened during a stabbing scene.
* Here is the only positive review of George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead I’ve seen so far, by B-Sol at Vault of Horror.
* Dark Horse will be publishing hard-copy collections of Chris Onstad’s webcomic Achewood. I must confess that I learned a long time ago I don’t have the ability to follow a daily comic of any kind, but I’ve been holding out hope that maybe the complete strip would be published in book form one day, and I guess we’re one step closer to that. (Via Tom Spurgeon.)
* Speaking of Spurge, here’s a thought of the day from him that I’m still mulling over:
Does all horror stem from a betrayal of intimacy?
I would say that some of it does, but not all. Indeed I’d say that a lot of horror comes from forced intimacy, which I guess is in itself a form of betrayal.
* While this New York Post article on Lost bears the obvious scars of an editor who doesn’t know the show very well, it nevertheless has an interesting broad-strokes breakdown of what Seasons Four, Five, and Six are “about” from showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. (Via The Tail Section.)
* Katherine Follet at Not Coming to a Theater Near You has posted an evocative review of Robert Frank’s legendary lost Rolling Stones tour documentary Cocksucker Blues. It’s a pan, not just of the movie but of the conduct of its subjects, all of which makes me want to see it more.
* Comparing Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol to Daredevil villain Mr. Fear is about as close to comicsblogging as Jim Henley comes these days, but hey, I’ll take it.
(*) Perhaps they wanted to know where they could go to get their jeans embroidered.