Cautionary Women

According to Shi'ar legend, everyone of us is born with a mummudrai, our emotional antithesis in the astral plane. It acts like a bodiless parasite inside the womb, but it usually never comes to term.  Professor Charles Xavier got an exemption to the rule. With his genetic mutation, Charles inadvertently enabled his mummudrai to build a body for itself in the womb. Put simply, an evil twin was growing alongside a fetal Charles, and he knew it even then. A battle ensued in the uterus. (Was it set to Massive Attack's "Teardrop" ?) Charles was born and the mummudrai perished.  via worstblogever Here's the icky part. Unbeknownst to Charles, the stillborn mummudrai survived in the sewer, where it slowly grew from a clump of cells to become Cassandra Nova. As Professor X's twin sister, Cassandra is more than a match for one of the planet's greatest telepaths. Apart from having Charles' psionic powers, Cassandra can devour minds and per...

Fans to this day are left theorizing if the demons and extraterrestrials on  American Horror Story: Asylum  were just products of cognition gone haywire or the real deal. Then again, if any American Horror Story season should confound viewers, let it be the one about a loony bin.  At least one thing made sense. Sister Mary Eunice proves that demons cannot be bothered with religious rituals as The Exorcist author and Catholic hardliner William Peter Blatty would have us believe. Also, Lily Rabe gave us an awesome moment to rival Jessica Lange's "The Name Game" number.

HM  Maleficent has a penchant for spindles. Now it seems like she has found the right wool to weave.  Enigmatic singer Lana del Rey (lit. Wool of the King) is reportedly covering "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty for its upcoming retelling,  Maleficent,  starring Angelina Jolie. Disney's choice of chanteuse may be spot on. Ms. del Rey is known for her brand of dirgey pop, just the right touch for a film about a deathly villain. Also, Sleeping Beauty was released in 1959; Lana should be able to treat the "Once Upon a Dream" music video with her trademark '60s filters, don't you think?

Now this is one bully who has blood in her hands. Literally. By now you must have seen the Carrie redux starring Chloë Grace Moretz as the world's most famous telekinetic misfit. The remake is faithful to the original movie and thereby passes on opportunities to right the first's departures from the Stephen King novel. As expected,  Carrie 2013 adds some eye-catching millennial touches to the source screenplay, what with smartphones, YouTube, and all. It has better effects than Carrie 1976 too, but that's a given. Minutes into the remake, you'd be forgiven to mistake actor Gabriella Wilde for the evil Christine Hargensen. (It's Portia Doubleday.) For once, the mean girl isn't blonde.  Chris Hargensen is still Chris Hargensen, and it would please you to know that her comeuppance in the remake is truly a scene made in hell.