Nick Withers Archive

  • Big – The Remake

    Big – The Remake

    The human brain - awesome.

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  • Sometimes I like my horror small

    Sometimes I like my horror small

    Small cast horror tends to be among the best, lending itself to taunt atmospherics. A recent gem was Splinter (2008), which shared the locked in/seige feelings of Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). Also of note is the almost-zombie...

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  • Zombie Dogs

    Zombie Dogs

    Last sighted on your local beach Dogs on Auckland beaches are being killed by tetrodotoxin, a lethal poison occurring naturally in puffer fish. Properly prepared puffer fish can serve a couple of purposes. As Fugu it is a Japanese delicacy. In powdered form it is...

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  • I’ve Got To Break Free

    I’ve Got To Break Free

    September 13, in little over a month, is affectionately known by some cult sci-fi geeks as “Breakaway Day”. Its the anniversary of the date (in 1999) when the moon broke from orbit and took the crew of Moonbase Alpha on two seasons of kitsche 1970s...

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  • Real Life Buckaroo Banzai #1

    Real Life Buckaroo Banzai #1

    Joshua Sinclair (far right) in 1990: The Bronx Warriors Joshua Sinclair, according to his Imdb profile and his French Wikipedia entry, is the Buckaroo Banzai of acting/directing world. He was a doctor specialising in tropical diseases in the Third World where he worked with Mother...

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  • Japanese scientists create robot [insert word here]

    Japanese scientists create robot [insert word here]

    The Japanese are certainly robot crazy. The latest creation is the skiing robot. Prior to that we have the hybrid insect robot and the dancing cuttlefish robot. They are also working on creating more human-like robots. However they played little part in the robotic recreation...

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  • Lesser Known Horror Icons #1

    Lesser Known Horror Icons #1

    Nelson Aquino de la Rosa was perhaps the world’s shortest actor. His early fame came from staring in Ratman (an Italian horror filmed in the Dominican Republic, with the Japanese trailer above) which had the infamous tag line “He’s the Critter from the Shitter”. He...

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