10,000 BC, 2008 AD

On: By: Romeyn

10,000 BC was panned by some viewers for being “historically inaccurate,” but honestly what did they expect from a director that had Will Smith knock an alien out with a punch to its helmet or uploading a computer virus to an alien mother ship. I picked up the movie at Dollar Tree, and honestly it looked like some of the D&D games I’ve participated in. It’s basically an alt-history/fantasy flick of a young hunter in a primitive society going to get his beautiful girl back after she was abducted and taken to a far away land. Along the way he gathers an army of men whose people were also taken captive. Its nothing more than a fun popcorn fest. If it was named something other than 10,000 BC it probably would have had better reviews.

Shown below are various posters for 10,000 BC.

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Vampire Stories, 1884

On: By: Romeyn

(The St. Charles Herald, Louisiana, September 06, 1884)
A physician of local fame in an Eastern city said to the writer recently: “This is an age of queer mental and bodily delusions, despite its enlightenment. One of the oddest cases that I ever saw I was called on to treat the other day. A man came in to complain that his ankles were wounded, found that the wounds were scratches, and expressed my surprise that he should have consulted a physician about a trifle. He said he often found the skin of his ankles broken in the same way on rising from bed. I suggested that he smooth the foot board, and not kick it so much. Then the real object of his visit came out. What do you think it was? With bated breath he whispered that he was the victim of a vampire—

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