The Secret Society That Studies Humanity While It Sleeps in Alex Proyas’s “Dark City”

The movie Dark City imagines a spooky nocturnal world existing beneath the one we know.

by Rich Watson 

This post is part of The Secret Places and Trippy Houses Blogathon, a blog event devoted to “the movies and TV shows over the years that have used secret places in their plots.” At the end, I’ll tell you where to find more posts like these.

Music video director Alex Proyas followed his 1994 movie The Crow with another moody, atmospheric film which treaded the more sinister territories of fantasy and sci-fi, in 1998. Dark City was not as big a hit, but time has treated it well.

It’s about beings who experiment on humans in a hidden underworld.

Did the Devil Leave His Mark On This Rock in a Brooklyn Cemetery?

Don’t walk too closely next to this rock in Brooklyn. Satan himself may have touched it.

by Rich Watson 

This is the time of year for accepting the supernatural, if only for fun. New York has its share of corners where ghost stories are still told and unexplained phenomena have been thought to occur.

In a prominent Brooklyn cemetery, for example, there is a certain rock, which some say bears the hoof print… of the Devil.

#popculture84: Mighty Orbots: The Other Transforming Robots

The life and premature death of this Saturday-morning animated series about robots who also were more than met the eye.

by Rich Watson 

To a Generation X kid growing up in the eighties, cartoons about transforming robots were the coolest thing since light sabers. They usually were made in Japan, and we were learning that Japanese animation looked way better and had more action than what we were used to seeing.

In a year, 1984, in which transforming robots were hot, ABC released one series less remembered today than the others, called Mighty Orbots.