Egh, this kind of bad schlocky horror doesn’t work me, and I have no interest in checking out the others in the series after someone informed me about the baggage this series carries from its pedophilic creator.
supremely impressed by the fact that the pumpkins are actually lipsynced to the music
This is a good example of what my brain looks like inside.
IT GOES ON FOR TWO MINUTES??????
Screaming and crying and tearing out my hair because I will never go this hard
This is the blessed part about being a nerd with a day job. Truly, we’re only limited by our dreams.
Link to the original, by Magical Light Shows. From the YouTube description: “I made this show as a free event for the community and as fundraiser for the McHenry House, a local family shelter here in Tracy, California.“
The version on YouTube is a full 21 minutes long! It’s always worth looking up the original artists.
Is anyone reaching age appropriate milestones anymore or are we all in the soup.
Aren’t you tired of reaching age appropriate milestones? Don’t you want to just drink soup?
Joke’s on you, transitioning from caring about superficial progress for its own sake to caring about enjoying a good soup in a pleasant moment is an age appropriate milestone
Milestones are out, minestrone is in
Thanks. Now I’m going to want to pronounce milestone like minestrone for the rest of my life.
Also thanks, now i am aware that i’ve been pronouncing at least one of them wrong my entire life
The final twist in Us – that Red and Adelaide switched places as children and have effectively been living each other’s lives – forces a reassessment of everything you’ve seen so far, inspiring new sympathy for ‘Red’, and bringing an uncomfortable new dimension of humanity to the Tethered. It’s a reframing that brings the whole notion of villainy into question. “The protagonist in the movie is the surrogate for the audience. I wasn’t doing my core theme any justice if I wasn’t revealing that ‘we’ have been the bad guy in this movie, we’ve been following the villain,” Peele elaborates. “I say villain lightly because I think there are many experiences of the film, and I think a lot of people go through a question of ‘what is good and evil?’ Does that even exist? Both characters are loveable and terrifying based on the lives they’ve led. They’ve inverted their paths.”
“Soft” by F. Paul Wilson (1984) “The sound comes in the night when all is quiet.”
I don’t think I’d physically shuddered yet in this month’s readings, but this one really brings it on. It’s a disturbing story and the peril involved for the characters is horrifying. I bet if I let this percolate it’ll also bring up some weird feelings about this pandemic era that we’re smack in the middle of.
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“In Each and Every Package” by Reed Crandall, et al. (1954) “I kept thinking of you and that gave me the strength.”
This came up in a list of noteworthy horror comics from the mid-century due to this gnarly cover that got held up as an example of the questionable artistic merits of this sort of stuff at the time. I also doubted the horror qualities of this series since the title itself says it’s crime fiction, but I gave it a shot. It’s crime fiction for sure and I don’t think I’ll read other Crime SuspenStories, but it definitely feels like something I’d see on Tales from the Crypt.
A psychological horror about mental illness and the careless institutionalization of women who don’t confirm to expectations. It lacks a typical plot and instead is presented as a series of vignettes, sometimes surreal or unhinged scenes of a state of mind, sometimes banal stuff like people at a hootenanny. Wouldn’t be surprised if Ari Aster had this in mind with parts of Midsommar.
