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Children of the Night, What a Mess They Make

These are the last few Halloween-related media Beth and I watched this spooky season. There are SPOILERS for all of them. The Devil and Daniel Mouse – A weird and cheap Canadian cartoon from the seventies loosely based on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Halloween, Harry Potter, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged charlotte rae, count dracula, dark night of the scarecrow, dracula dead and loving it, fairuza balk, jill murphy, john sebastian, larry drake, leslie nielsen, mel brooks, mice, satan, the devil and daniel mouse, the devil and daniel webster, the worst witch, tim curry, vampires, witches |

All He Does Is Drink Your Blood, ‘Cause He Don’t Like Ginger Ale

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair – This is a weird and often sad movie about a teenage girl who plays an online game that has something to do with the World’s Fair, but we never learn how the game … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Conspiracy Theories, Games, Health, History, Language, Monsters, Sexuality, Television, The Simpsons, Video, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anthony hopkins, bram stoker, bram stoker's dracula, carnivals, charles montgomery burns, count dracula, dracula, gary oldman, halloween, keanu reeves, psycho, renfield, the funhouse, vampires, vlad the impaler, we're all going to the world's fair, winona ryder |

Teeny Tiny Bat

Halloween has come and gone, and the Great Pumpkin never showed up. Does no one care about sincerity in pumpkin patches anymore? It’s all this commercial farming, I’m sure. Anyway, here are my thoughts on one thing I watched for … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dreams, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Revisiting Disney, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged art the clown, aunt em, billina, clowns, count dracula, disco, dorothy gale, emerald city, frankenstein, gump, horror, jack pumpkinhead, mombi, mummies, murder, nome king, ozma of oz, princess langwidere, return to oz, terrifier, the halloween that almost wasn't, the marvelous land of oz, the neverending story, the night dracula saved the world, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, time bandits, transylvania, uncle henry, wheelers, witches, wolfman, yellow brick road, zombies |

Right Off the Bat

When I played the first Dragon Quest, then called Dragon Warrior, I had a strategy guide from Nintendo Power that described Drakees as flying baby dragons. This was interesting to me, as it gave a bit of a hint into … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Etymology, L. Frank Baum, Mario, Mega Man, Monsters, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Pokémon, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged antasma, atari adventure, bats, battons, chimera, count dracula, dorothy and the wizard in oz, drac the vlad, drackies, dragonets, dragonettes, dragons, fish, hunt the wumpus, keeses, king bowser koopa, mario and luigi: dream team, nintendo power, super mario world, swoopers, swoops, the legend of zelda, the mysterious chronicles of oz, vampires, vires, wyverns |

Down for the Count

Herein lie film and television reviews, with SPOILERS. Dracula – I’d read the novel before, and it was soon made into a stage play, with the movie largely recreating that. The play and film codified a lot of the mythology … Continue reading →

Posted in Families, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Star Wars, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bela lugosi, bram stoker, child's play, child's play 2, chucky, count dracula, dolls, dracula, renfield, robots, the mandalorian, vampires |

Do Not Be Alarmed, We Are Only Little Children

Silver Bullet – Based on a Stephen King novella with a different name, this stars Corey Haim as a paraplegic kid who rides around in a motorized wheelchair called, appropriately, the Silver Bullet. He comes to realize that the murders … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bats, catherine o'hara, corey haim, count dracula, don rickles, filmation, gary busey, ghostbusters, gilda radner, halloween with the addams family, lou scheimer, shades of dracula, silver bullet, the addams family, vampires, werewolves, witch's night out, witches |

The Gang’s All Here

Picture by Mark Spears I noticed on Joe Bongiorno’s Royal Timeline of Oz that he’s added several fictional works not directly related to Oz or L. Frank Baum, crediting some of them to Win Scott Eckert’s Wold Newton Universe chronology. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Greek Mythology, History, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Roman, Star Trek | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, aeneas, aeneid, anachronisms, conan the barbarian, count dracula, crossovers, dc comics, doc savage, doc savage his apocalyptic life, dorothy gale, edgar rice burroughs, great detective, h.p. lovecraft, henry w. walston, joe bongiorno, john l. nanovic, lester dent, marvel comics, oziana, philip jose farmer, robert e. howard, royal timeline of oz, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, spock, tarzan, tarzan alive, the undiscovered country, thor, time travel, trojan war, virgil, win scott eckert, wold cottage meteorite, wold newton family, wold newton universe |

A Different Video World

I just recently found out about the Game Theory videos on YouTube. They’re somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but with a definite sense of wanting to teach something and explore how the world of video games works, which is pretty similar to what … Continue reading →

Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Mario, Mega Man, Metroid, Punch-Out, Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, The Simpsons, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged bo jackson, bram stoker, count dracula, dracula, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vii, game theory, hyrule, larry bird, little mac, mike tyson, mushroom kingdom, mushroom world, the critic, the x-files, videoland, zebes |

Recruitment Problems for the League of Darkness

We now follow up a post on the history of Islam with one on a Saturday morning cartoon show from the early nineties. This blog sure is wacky, huh? {g} We’re told that, in Captain N, Mother Brain basically has … Continue reading →

Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Kid Icarus, Mega Man, Metroid, Television, Video Games, Wizards & Warriors, Zelda | Tagged chaos, count dracula, donkey kong, dr. albert wily, dragonlord, eggplant wizard, ganon, king hippo, malkil, mother brain, n team, uranos, videolympics |