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ectoplasm
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ectoplasm,
the compact, peripheral portion of the cytoplasm of a cell.

ectoplasm
an old-fashioned term which referred to a peripheral band of gel-like cytoplasm, free of organelles, found in free and motile cells.


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Choking on the ectoplasmic residue of Paranormal Activity, writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi's similarly formulated The Fourth Kind struggles to find a scary groove but winds up being a broken record of split-screen psychobabble, unconvincing acting (screaming, mostly), and film-school-freshman camera trickery.
Hellboy also has a new commander taking over the helm at the Bureau Of Paranormal Research and Defence (BPRD), ectoplasmic German Johann Kraus is a great addition to the team with some interesting results.
When I ask what the oddest thing they found was, she laughs and starts talking about a book on ectoplasmic phenomena that seems to have contributed to Bacon's interest, in the early 50s, in the effect of a figure materialising within a curtain.
 
 
 
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