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Demon hunter

Full Kolchak ep “Horror in the Heights”: reporter chases a rakshasa (Indian demon) in NYC. Where’s Durga Ma when you need her? In 1974, NYC Jews wouldn’t go out for Indian food :D Lakshmi Restaurant in a horror font Beef curry = not a typical Indian place Is this

Why comedy is liberal

Horror is conservative because its essence is fear, comedy’s liberal because its essence is play. Comedy’s puckish, punctures the pompous. Authoritarians love rank, comedy only uses it to punch up. Otherwise it’s flat, you’re as good as your set / script / essay / bit. A liberal horror flick

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‘It Lives Inside’

I generally enjoyed the well-made It Lives Inside, but: You’re a teen out to see a movie during Halloween season. Do you want to see a rote horror flick with a slight cultural twist, or do you want a fresh auteur to really go ham on a novel

‘Count Abdulla’

Count Abdulla is very funny premise-pushing: what would it mean if a vampire were Pakistani from Hounslow? First 3 eps jam-packed with clever jokes. Sags in middle, but way better than yet another arranged-marriage tale. Adds to vampire lore by making them white-supremacist Bullingdon toffs none