Ricardo Serrano Denis

2 weeks ago | comicsbeat.com | Ricardo Serrano Denis

Osgood Perkin’s The Monkey instantly became a must-watch the minute the first teaser trailer landed. It was so maniacally bloody and gruesome that it was hard not to see it as a terrifying but funny celebration of death. To a point, it came off as the Looney Tunes version of splatter. Imagine Wiley Coyote finally blowing up that pesky roadrunner to pieces only to get drenched in his nemesis’ blood as it rained down on him.

3 weeks ago | comicsbeat.com | Ricardo Serrano Denis

To experience anime and video game scores in person, in a venue usually reserved for classical music from the biggest names in the history of the form, can feel like getting away with something not entirely on the up and up. Kind of like breaking into Madison Square Garden to shoot a few hoops on the same floor that basketball legends made their names on.

3 weeks ago | comicsbeat.com | Ricardo Serrano Denis

David Cronenberg is unrivaled when it comes to body horror. Simply, he is king. It’s not that he just produces some of the most disturbing imagery in the business regarding the forms and shapes our bodies take whenever biological shifts in society occur. It’s that they always point to a confrontational vision of humanity that suggests our development is on a one-way street towards monstrosity. Cronenberg isn’t out to merely gross audiences out.

3 weeks ago | comicsbeat.com | Ricardo Serrano Denis

The Hell in a Cell match from King of the Ring ’98 is easily one of the most important wrestling matches of all time. Mankind (Mick Foley) and Undertaker ushered in a new era of brutality with it, moving the line further up in terms of what was allowed in the ring and which rules could be broken on primetime television. Bear in mind that Japan had already been pushing that envelope for years with barbed wire matches and explosive ring bouts. ECW was already up and running, too.

4 weeks ago | comicsbeat.com | Ricardo Serrano Denis

Just when you think you’ve seen everything a genre has to offer, you find a movie at the tail end of a streaming service’s suggested viewing section that proves you wrong. That’s where films that truly live up to their cult status find their hiding spot.