Fun Fact:

Fun Fact:

Medusa the Gorgon had babies. Yep… 2 of ‘em.

Mere moments after Perseus cut her big ugly head off, her two children by Poseidon exploded out of her neck stump. One of them was Chrysaor, who went on to father the three-headed giant Geryon whom Heracles killed while completing his 10th labor. The other was the famous winged horse Pegasus. In myth, he assisted the hero Bellerophon in slaying the Chimera, a fire-breathing lion/goat/snake hybrid. By flying just out of range of the Chimera's attacks, Bellerophon was able to weaken it with his bow and arrows before brutally killing it with a spear down the throat. It was an epic battle and finding that his pride had grown 10 times the size, Bellerophon decided to ride Pegasus directly to Mount Olympus, an arrogant move that Zeus punished him for by sending a gadfly to bite Pegasus. This caused the horse to buck Bellerophon off, sending him crash landing into the Earth's surface, dead. Meanwhile, Pegasus was warmly welcomed into Zeus's home and given a constellation to honor him.

What a good boy.

Apparently, the ancient Greeks had their own take on the werewolf legend.

On the slopes of Mount Lykaion, worshipers of Zeus-Lykaois (Zeus-the-Wolf) would conduct a ritual in his honor. A ritual that supposedly involved cannibalism and human sacrifice. Inspired by the well-known myth where King Lycaon kills his own son Nyctimus and tries to trick Zeus into eating his flesh only to be found out and transformed into a wolf, the ritual attendance would gather once every nine years in the dead of night and make their sacrifice consisting of a human volunteer and an animal. And after the deed was done, a portion of the volunteer's intestine would be mixed with the animal's entrails. The cult members would then each take a morsel of meat and whoever wound up eating the human flesh was transformed into a wolf.

The kicker is they would be stuck in their wolf form for nine years and the only way to be transformed back would be to abstain from eating human flesh that entire time. Not an easy task for a wolf.

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

Blade Runner by Ridley Scott.

Based on Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

I'm a huge fan of this film, it's one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time.

Blade Runner is simply one of those cinematic candies, that when I first saw it on Netflix, I never saw the world the same way again.

Check it out and feel the visual boundaries of cinema expand.

Matinee by Joe Dante.

One of the great ones.

The most overlooked movie about movies.

Joe Dante's love letter to horror gimmicks.

Halloween (1978) by John Carpenter.

One of the greatest horror movies of all time. A genre supernova. Created a taxonomic category that still lives. Unsparing precision, a simple premise and style.

While the original Halloween may not be the first slasher movie, it is the film that set the groundwork for the genre and paved the way for all the other great slasher franchises like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. If you claim to be a horror fan and you haven't seen the original Halloween, first of all, shame on you. Second of all, watch it NOW. This one is required viewing.

Also, it is my personal opinion that John Carpenter's Halloween has the greatest opening scene in horror history.

"Anything to vary this detestable monotony."

- Charles Dickens, Bleak House

Fun Fact:

One of the scariest creatures in Celtic folklore has gotta be the Caorthannach. Also known as the "Celtic fire-spitter" and believed by some to be the mother of Lucifer himself, Caorthannach was the name of an old witch that was part human, part serpent. Whenever she would emerge from her watery abode, she would wreak havoc, murdering travelers, burning down homes with families trapped inside and the rare few who evaded her initial torment would still be caught and devoured later.

The Caorthannach's reign of terror ended thanks to Celtic hero Finn McCool. He and his band of warriors lit her up with arrows and she died right on the spot. Except, a year later, a little turd named Conan broke her thigh bone, allowing a worm to crawl out and escape into a lake. That worm was Caorthannach and when she emerged out of the same lake fully grown and ready to terrorize a nearby town, Conan let her swallow him whole. Then he cut her open from the inside, beheaded her and threw her head into the lake. Her blood then permanently turned the lake red, and it was called "Loch Derg" or the "Red Lake" from then on.

Well she sounds... lovely, doesn't she?

"Unable to discern the form of You,

I see Your presence all around.

Filling my eyes with the love of You,

my heart is humbled,

for You are everywhere."

- Sana'i Ghaznavi, The Book of Everything: Journey of the Heart’s Desire: Hakim Sanai’s Walled Garden of the Truth