If you know anything about the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu, it’s probably the iconic image of actor Max Schreck. In his role as the vampire Count Orlok, Schreck didn’t play a suave nobleman decked out in evening wear. He plays a monster, a near-feral creature with a ratlike visage. Nosferatu features one of the […]

Crisis is streaming on Prime Years ago, I was driving to the low-pay, high-stress job I held at the time. I turned my head to check my blind spot and, being an imbecile, I somehow screwed up my back.* The pain was quite serious, so much so that I got to work, then reconsidered and […]