Name: Thomas M. Sipos
Dateline: Santa Monica, California
Weblog: www.communistvampires.com
Articles: 80
First Published: Wednesday, November 6, 2002
Last Published: Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Thomas M. Sipos is the author of the anti-Communist satire, Vampire Nation and Manhattan Sharks. Some of his essays on horror film aesthetics appear in his horror collection, Halloween Candy. He founded the Tabloid Witch Awards horror film contest and festival. He is Vice Chair of the Los Angeles County Libertarian Party.
Currently listing articles 80-51:
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A Fair Tax for Progressives and Conservatives— A national sales tax protects privacy and avoids marriage discrimination.
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Can't Afford a House? Pay for Someone Else's!— Why the mortgage crisis is a Good Thing — and shame on the government for trying to "fix it."
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The Principle of Power Envy— Progressives and Ann Coulter have something in common - they just love power, can't get enough of it.
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Realistic Rent Control - With Vouchers— Rent vouchers make better sense than rent control. Fairer, too.
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Fight Hate by Ending "Hate Crime" Laws— On Michael Richards, Tennie Pierce, and other Kafkaesque buffoonery.
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A Taxpayer's Nightmare: Needless Bondage— Myths and lies lurk behind every bond measure.
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Book Review: Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth— The PC bigotries of academic film books, from their pretentious vapidity to the political showboating.
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DVD Review: Blood Relations— Gruesome brain torture doesn't save this cheap suspense/noir film.
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Libertarians for Lieberman?— Libertarians go dumpster diving in the Demopublican trash heap.
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DVD Review: Invasion of the Flesh Hunters— Italian cannibal film with a Vietnam War subtext.
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Movie Review: Hollow Man— Why does invisibility turn people into serial killers?
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DVD Review: The Devil's Nightmare, aka The Devil Walks At Midnight— If you like succubi - and who doesn't? - you'll like The Devil's Nightmare.
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Movie Review: Curtains— A slasher film that offers profound insight into fame, celebrity, and "making it" in Hollywood.
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Movie Review: Theater of Blood— Vincent Price hams it up in this wicked-fun black comedy.
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Movie Review: Nadja— There's enough fatalism, pessimism, and gloom in this horror-art film to delight a whole mausoleum-full of Goths.
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Film Festival Mistakes to Avoid: Lessons From the Tabloid Witch Awards— In reviewing entries for the Tabloid Witch Awards horror film contest, I see the same recurring mistakes.
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Movie Review: Mulholland Drive— This is a common Lynchian theme: The innocent who is drawn to dark strangers living corrupt lives under the Disney-fied surface of Americana.
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Book Review - Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the Seventies— There's meat, and blood and guts and gore. This is a beautiful book, hugely glossy, lavishly illustrated, in resplendent color.
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DVD Review: Shadow of the Vampire— Vampires are usually depicted as either alluring romantics or repulsive beasts. To his great credit, Dafoe successfully blends the two personas.
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Book Review: Cinematic Hauntings— Intelligent and informative essays on key ghost films.
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DVD Review: Blood - The Last Vampire— The Girl With No Name is a laconic vampire hunter in this beautiful, haunting anime.
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Book Review: The Night Stalker Companion— A well-structured chronicle of the rise and fall and afterlife of Carl Kolchak, a hard-boiled reporter who investigates supernatural and extraterrestrial crimes.
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DVD Review: End of Days— Schwarzenegger battles Satan in this horror-action hybrid.
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DVD Review: Embrace of the Vampire— Some inside scoops on this Alyssa Milano nudie flick. But I kept my clothes on.
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California Libertarians Wimp Out on Iraq War— In stark contrast to other third parties, the California Libertarian Party mirrors the Republican and Democratic parties on the Iraq War.
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DVD Review: Starship Troopers— This is 9/11 satire shot pre-9/11.
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Book Review: Tales From the Crypt: The Official Archives— Definitive history of this horror phenomenon grapples with censorship and art's influence for good or ill.
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DVD Review: Hell Night— Yet another slasher film, but Linda Blair and Peter Barton lend depth and sympathy to their characters despite some hokey dialogue.
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VHS Review: The Velvet Vampire— Psychedelic Jesus freaks vs. groovy vampire chick.
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VHS Review: Blood and Roses— Beautiful, brooding, broken-hearted - every Goth's ideal romantic vampire.
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