Film Review: Amityville Emanuelle (dir by Louis DeStafano)

[link VIDEO] Amityville Emanuelle is the latest film about the dumbass Amityville Haunting. In order to watch any of the many films about the supposed haunted house in Amityville, New York, you need to be aware of two real-life events. In 1974, a 23 year-old junkie named Ronald DeFeo, Jr. gunned down his entire family in their Amityville home.  DeFeo first claimed that unknown gunmen had killed his family while he was out.  He then changed his story and said that he killed h...

Heinz Insu Fenkl on Exploring Memory, Identity

Heinz Insu Fenkl was born in South Korea to a Korean mother and a German father who was a GI in the U.S. Army. He grew up in Korea until age twelve, then in Germany and the U.S. His autobiographical first novel, Memories of My Ghost Brother, a 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, draws upon his childhood, as does this second novel, which is set in part across the North Han River from Sambong-ni, his mother’s native village. "Skull Water was initially a memoir, and I drew extensively from my lif...

Buried Power Of The Seven Dolls At Maya Dzibilchaltún

What makes Dzibilchaltún so perplexing, are the seven crudely made clay figurines found buried below the altar in what has become known as the Temple of the Seven Dolls. At its peak Dzibilchaltún, which means " where there is writing on flat stones ," was one of the oldest settlements of the north-western Maya lowlands of Yucátan in Mexico. It was a large and complex community, engaged in the exploitation of nearby seaside resources, especially salt, and long-distance coastal and inland trade...

Un Homme Qui dort

Beyond the Pleasure Principle