The crucial difference between eating household pets and babies, explains a demon (T. Ryder Smith) in "Apparition," is not the taste. (He seems to assume both are delicious.) It's that human bones are easier to chew. "Crunch, crunch, crunch," he says gleefully, like a foodie from the underworld. read more... (pdf)
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A play should not be able to scare you more than a movie. Sure, one of the performers could conceivably step off the stage and stick a steak knife in your eye (“Other than that, how was the show, Mrs. Lincoln?”), but for the most part, movies, those waking dreams, raise the gooseflesh.
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