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New Horror 2023 – Day 28

“A dense haze, gray and tinged ruddy, lay between the houses, sometimes blowing with a little wet kiss against the face.”

“The Interval” by Vincent O’Sullivan (1918)

Huh. Maybe I’ve read too many Victorian-ish ghost stories, but this one just sort of happens along until the words stop. There were stronger takes on this earlier in the month.

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“I guess I was really wasting Jimmy’s body.”

“Inside You” by Valerie D’Orazio & David James Cole (2014)

Sometimes you simply aren’t you for a while, but what happens is still on you.

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“Mother, please make it stop!”

The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)

Just not a necessary movie. It’s too unwieldy and trying to include everyone muddles the whole thing.

New Horror 2022 – Day 22

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“When the Gentlemen Go By” by Margaret Ronald (2008)
“Don’t look, baby, don’t look.”

The trolley problem has a solid place in horror.

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“The Fool of the Web” by Patricia Breen, Roel, Brenda Feikema (1997)
“Your belly quakes with laughter even as I tremble in disgust.”

Sometimes you follow the maiden, and sometimes the maiden follows you.

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Halloween Ends dir. David Gordon Green (2022)
“What are you gonna do when Michael comes back for you?”

These Halloween movies are such a mess. I went back to read the plots and remind myself about what happens in the first two parts of this new trilogy and it starts simply enough, but the second and third are trying to say something about the evil on both sides and it makes for an incredibly confused story at best, a shitty attempt to address all sides of our cultural climate at its worst.

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Silent Hill dev. Team Silent (1999)
“I get it now, why I’m still alive even though everyone else is dead.”

I avoided this game since playing a bit in 1999 and noping out at the sight of scary demon children with knives. Then, I goofed by playing the sequel before the first one, so the framework was all very familiar now that I did get here. I can appreciate why the series has developed such a following now that I completed these first two entries. The recently announced remakes and sequels must be like a torrent after a drought.