Horror Movies - Michael R. Clark

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The VHS Files: Teaching Machines the Poetry of Steak in Cronenberg's The Fly

The VHS Files: Teaching Machines the Poetry of Steak in Cronenberg's The Fly

In the ‘80s, there was a boom in remakes of great horror movies from the ‘40 and ‘50s (most of these pretty campy, and definitely unscary): The Thing, The Blob, and The Fly all have stood the test of time and are regarded as classics today. (Invaders from Mars and

What's Eating Us? The Stuff, Consumer Culture, and LLMs

What's Eating Us? The Stuff, Consumer Culture, and LLMs

Back in the mid-’80s, Larry Cohen made an over-the-top body horror riff on The Blob called The Stuff, where unsuspecting Americans discover a mysterious white goo bubbling out of the ground that turns out to be both delicious and malevolently sentient. Once you eat it, it takes