What is a horror movie? One which horrifies the viewer, presumably, but the genre is a fluid one. A quick scroll through YouTube brings up a host of aficionado sites which obviously fit the bill, and should you wish to peruse 10 Disturbing Italian Cannibal Horror Movies That Can Terrify You For Weeks, then be my guest. But while romantic comedies, westerns, war movies and gangster flicks are relatively easy to categorize, what makes a horror film can depend very much on who is watching it. (more…)
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We made a swift arrest at the time and recognise the right people have for freedom of expression, but when this crosses into intimidation to cause harm or distress we will always look to take action when it is reported to us.
-Assistant Chief Constable Stephanie Parker, Manchester Police Constabulary, after the public burning of a copy of the KoranYou have the right to free speech
As long as you’re not dumb enough
To actually try it.
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One of the saddest things about the tragedy that England has become is the loss of its comedy. Traditionally seen as a nation of sober, sensible yeomanry with a philosophical tradition of bullish empiricism and a stiff upper lip to boot, the English were the epitome of gravitas. And yet this small, rainy, rather gloomy country has produced supreme comedy not just for domestic consumption, but able to travel abroad carrying the universally accepted currency of humor. (more…)
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Captain Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert!
Rick: I was misinformed.
–CasablancaHe who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.
–Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (more…) -
International Blancophobia Month (ie. every month)
With the trial of Axel Rudakubana taking center-stage this month, only one thing was certain: the government would use the distraction to smuggle through as much anti-white legislation as it could fit on the statute books. For that is what it is.
The British have been so deeply indoctrinated into believing that the promotion of one’s own white ethnicity is the lowest circle of racism that they still can’t face the monster. (more…)
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The trial of Axel Rudakubana began and ended on the same day at Liverpool Crown Court in England. Known as “the Southport killer” after he murdered three little girls in that English town in July last year, Rudakubana’s trial had an immediate twist in an already tangled tale, and one nobody saw coming. Given that the trial was slated to last 4-6 weeks, there was no need for the qualifying word “allegedly” to be used after the morning of day one, as the killer immediately pled guilty to all sixteen charges laid against him. (more…)
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Where I come from, although it was good, hard-working people trying to raise a family respectably, there was a lot of organized crime, and I saw a lot of violence where I grew up.
-Martin ScorseseWith the recent death of film director David Lynch, there has been much commentary on his place in the pantheon of American film directors. Lynch was a one-off, with a directorial CV including movies which bordered on horror without ever actually being in that genre. But, wherever Lynch comes in any league table of great American directors, there is one name which would be close to the top, if not in first place, in any avid film buff’s list: Martin Scorsese. (more…)
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In early June of 1990, the Navidsons flew to Seattle for a wedding. When they returned, something in the house had changed. Though they had only been away for four days, the change was enormous. It was not, however, obvious—like for instance a fire, a robbery, or an act of vandalism. Quite the contrary, the horror was atypical.
-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of LeavesI would rather not go
Back to the old house.
There’s too many bad memories.
-The Smiths, “Back to the Old House” (more…) -
The auguries, which were so often used for the purposes of political obstruction or intrigue.
-Goldwin Smith, Lectures and EssaysI behold the surest pledges that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no separate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests.
-George Washington, 1789 Inaugural Address (more…) -
In Britain, there are numerous neo-Nazi networks and groups that reinforce – as well as promote and disseminate – their violent ideology primarily through pamphlets, music and private gatherings. Blood & Honour (B&H) is one of the largest of these networks; but even it is still at a stage where, if the government were to take suitable measures, the threat it poses to both security and community cohesion could be countered before it matures.-
-Henry Jackson Society, 2010Back in the garage with my bullshit detector.
-The Clash, Garageland (more…) -
We should not talk to ordinary people. They are not people. It’s okay to shoot them.
-Gudrun Ensslin, founder member of Baader-MeinhofI am the world’s forgotten boy.
The one who searches and destroys.
-Iggy Pop, Search and Destroy (more…) -
An entire generation of non-Muslim schoolgirls has been sacrificed to multiculturalism.
Peter McLoughlin, Easy MeatThe report uncovers a concerning obsession with Islam, portraying Muslims through a lens of suspicion and hostility.
The Muslim Council of Britain, from a complaint against GB News (more…) -
The principle of verification is supposed to furnish a criterion by which it can be determined whether or not a sentence is literally meaningful. A simple way to formulate it would be to say that a sentence had literal meaning if and only if the proposition it expressed was either analytic or empirically verifiable.
-A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic
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