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A&E > Scary Halloween-themed Puns from Mark Steyn

In his reviews of horror movies. First up, Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, incidentally, was Mike Nichols’ first directorial assignment. Three decades on, he’s lost four words and lost for words.

And from his review Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:

At the beginning, you can see what Branagh’s up to: ‘The dawn of the Nineteenth Century,’ the screen reads. ‘A world on the brink of revolutionary change…’ We are in the midst of a wild sea storm; ‘All hands to the mast!’ Ah-ha! He’s trying to make the clichés real — and Romantic. But he can’t leave well alone, and he winds up furiously trying to tie his shambling creation together, just like the Doktor: a stitch in time saves, nein?