It struck me as pretty silly that people are being trained to defend themselves against extraction when, to get you in a shared dream in the first place, someone has to have you at their mercy physically, sedate you, and hook you up to a machine linking you all together. If they can do that they can kill or kidnap you and do whatever they want in your absence anyway .

Slate discusses David Bowie's acting career:

Cracked Actor

By this point, Bowie seemed on the cusp of a full-fledged acting career. In 1983, in addition to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Bowie appeared in The Hunger as (typecasting again!) the 400-year-old lover of vampire goddess Catherine Deneuve. The movie is a schlockfest of early-MTV flourishes (flash cuts, flapping birds) and it's most noteworthy for a demure love scene between Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. But the opening credit sequence is irresistible: While Bauhaus perform the sinuous goth standard "Bela Lugosi's Dead," Deneuve and Bowie prowl a cavernous nightclub in search of fresh blood, smirking hotly at each other and blowing pheromones with their cigarette smoke.

The Hunger as (typecasting again!) the 400-year-old lover of vampire goddess Catherine Deneuve. The movie is a schlockfest of early-MTV flourishes (flash cuts, flapping birds) and it's most noteworthy for a demure love scene between Deneuve and Susan Sarandon.

How did I not know that this existed?

How did I not know that this existed?

You're too young?

It was sorta' a big deal when the movie came out in '83-ish....

God, now I have a craving to watch it again. All kinds of nice soft-focus vampiness.

Yeah I was busy being born and mastering the whole holding-my-head-up thing that year. Still though, that seems like enough fabulous things in a movie that I should have heard of it.

Still though, that seems like enough fabulous things in a movie that I should have heard of it.

Indeed, it's rather a cliche of awesome eighties imagery. It's all opera and goth and beautiful cheekbones and flash cuts and ankhs. Ann Magnuson plays this sexy little punk girl who does a sexy little dance before she's killed by Bowie.

It's directed by Tony Scott, the younger brother of Ridley. He also directed True Romance.

Ann Magnuson plays this sexy little punk girl who does a sexy little dance before she's killed by Bowie.

Ooh, I didn't know that. (Although I didn't know who Magnuson was when the flick came out.)

It's directed by Tony Scott, the younger brother of Ridley. He also directed True Romance.

And now every movie with Denzel Washington, right?

ION, this sounds cool:

Of Dolls and Murder, A Documentary About Dollhouse Crime Scenes

“Of Dolls and Murder”, a documentary about dollhouse crime scene investigations, directed by Susan Marks and narrated by John Waters.

The new documentary film, Of Dolls and Murder, explores our collective fascination with forensics while unearthing the criminal element that lurks in one particularly gruesome collection of dollhouses. Rather than reflecting an idealized version of reality, these surreal dollhouses reveal the darker, disturbing side of domestic life.

Created strictly for adults, these dollhouse dioramas are home to violent murder, prostitution, mental illness, adultery and alcohol abuse. Each dollhouse has tiny corpse dolls, representing an actual murder victim. In one bizarre case, a beautiful woman lays shot to death in her bed, her clean-cut, pajama-clad husband lies next to the bed, also fatally shot. Their sweet little baby was shot as she slept in her crib. Blood is spattered everywhere. And all the doors were locked from the inside, meaning the case is likely a double homicide/suicide. But something isn’t right. The murder weapon is nowhere near the doll corpses – instead the gun was found in another room.