This is an excerpt from the ‘Top 10′ lists, found on the ‘about me’ page of philtinsley.com… Top 10 films of all time! This one is a little trickier, too many films, only ten slots!

Genres: The Creative Tourniquet. It is human nature to divide the infinite wonder and complexity of our daily experience into categories. We stereotype, pigeon-hole and label the miraculous in an attempt to understand, control or own it. As a writer I am expected, even forced to label myself as a particular genre. Not only does this limit my creativity by pre-paving your expectations of any of my future work, but it also limits the audience who will be attracted to… (more…)

Vote for your preferred genre… …Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Sci-fi; have your say.

With horror film makers always looking for old classics to re-work for new audiences, it’s only a matter of time before we see cult children’s classics made over into big buget audience pleasers…here are a few possibilities!

In a darkened movie theater…  I discovered why a giant fish-salamander creature emerged from the Han River in Korea and ate a bunch of people. Apparently, it was because some U.S. military guys dumped more than 400 bottles of contaminated formaldehyde into the river near Seoul back in 2000. This sparked the mutant growth of an enormous amphibian with a multi-mouthed and impossibly toothy head. No, really. In 2000, a civilian mortician named Albert McFarland was working at a U.S.… (more…)

Some alternative ‘horror’ images all based on Japanese school girls (I guess this guy was teased at school or something!) See the complete Artist Gallery here

‘Horror frog’ breaks own bones to produce claws! “Amphibian horror” isn’t a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws. Trichobatrachus robustus actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog’s toe pads, probably when it is threatened.

Perhaps Tim Burton will be inspired to remake this classic (obviously with Johnny Depp as The Sweep!)

no, this isn’t just Lorem Ipsum that I forgot to replace, it is a rather clever way of introducing this entry. I am fond of using Latin in my work, as you can see by GOLGOATH, and so this list of, a-hem, useful phrases got me chuckling to myself. yes, I know, I need to get out more… these all came from here Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes If you can read this you’re over-educated Mihi ignosce. Cum… (more…)

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (From drinking little bottles of…? Wonder how much the the govt paid for this relevant bit of research??) Butterflies taste with their feet. (Arr) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Who volunteers for this stuff?) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Is that… (more…)