New Horror 2023 – Day 21

“I’ll give you just the essentials, and you can make of it what you please.”

“The Woman’s Ghost Story” by Algernon Blackwood (1907)

The spirit as an inextinguishable longing.

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“God as daddy the deranged.”

“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, John Byrne, Eric Shanower, James Sinclair, Chris Chalenor (1994-1995)

The title would have hit so much harder if there’d been a different choice at the end there.

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“The only thing I have not provided is your anesthetic.”

Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)

I was so tuned out of these movies that I did not realize they were releasing at a pace of one per year for six years, with sporadic releases thereafter. This one brought the squelch that I’m not especially keen to see, but it also kind of softpedaled in the end. Damned if I do, damned if they don’t.