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two of my favorite illustrations from this year, both from Carmilla

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happy hatbox came back from the void day

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Absolutely terrifying

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And now, a repost of my earlier concept for what I came up with for a quality Haunted Mansion film, in the wake of new plot details and cast going around: 

The film should start with a series of striking images, taken from the ride, but done in a very realistic manner with some stylized elements, as if they were filmed on an antique motion picture camera: a man’s legs, stepping off the rafters inside a home under construction and a loud snapping noise, a hallway of formal portraits with the subjects decaying into rotting corpses, a medium with a crystal ball and her back turned to the camera, obscured by a large antique chair, a cemetery of stone monuments expanding gradually as if viewed by time lapse. Over this would be narration about some homes, some pieces of land, just being cursed, or doomed, and on these properties, the inexplicable and horrible builds up over the years, creating a cycle of negative energy that leads to a haunting which cannot be contained or described by the actions of the living - a crash of thunder, the title comes up, and then a smash cut to….

…a tour guide, in what is plainly a tourist attraction, foyer identical to the Disneyland mansion, delivering the rest of the opening spiel about the old Gracey house and how it contains 999 restless spirits, and should you dare to go inside, you might join them…forever! Cut to a bored and paltry group of tourists. A Halloween grade skeleton coated in cobwebs is slumped in the corner, there is a rack of postcards on a counter, etc. This scene transitions to the exterior - it is Halloween night, and the mansion sits on the edge of a swamp, but down the street is just typical street of businesses outside the gates and cemetery of the mansion. Jack o’lanterns are piled outside the gates and  fake cobwebs adorn the plaque bearing the Gracey Manor name.

From there, our protaganists, a twenty-something aged group of paranormal enthusiasts, are introduced sneaking into the cemetery after hours, talking amongst themselves about what they’ve heard about the Gracey place: the suicides plaguing the construction of it, that the owner was in secret a pirate captain and dumped his wife in a well, that no, it was the wife who murdered her husbands, that the owner was really an eccentric world traveler who collected cursed and bizarre artifacts and put them in the home, that a spirit medium investigating the house died under odd circumstances and her head was never found, that the owner and his wife died during an earthquake one day, and so on - all the various backstories both used and unused for the attractions around the world. Eventually, they sneak inside, and are greeted with what is clearly a recording of the same Paul Frees narration (when hinges creak in doorless chambers) and a hokey recreation of the skeleton dropping from the ceiling, which they scoff at. Going further in, they are in the portrait hall as in the ride at Anaheim, but the candles lining the walls flicker and die, then all the light seems to be sucked out of the room, leaving them in a black void, lightning and thunder booming in a very loud manner, the intruders panicking - until light returns and they find they are outside the mansion again seemingly, the trees gnarled and creaking in the wind, full moon shining down on the gravestones, and the blue lights flitting about the graves slowly turn into ghosts from all eras, ignoring them. The only place to run is into the house, as the fence around the graveyard seems to stretch into infinity, and once inside, the house warps further, changes around them, flickering between aspects of all the Mansion attractions, with them literally trying to find a way out, the ghosts alternately threatening them, or in the eventual case of Madame Leota and a tour guide who has been trapped in the netherworld of the Mansion, trying to help them solve the mysteries of what happened and escape.

This would leave room for concepts from all eras and iterations of the Mansion and it’s development, and also have space for the ghosts being self aware they are trapped in a tourist attraction in some cases and there being dark humor arising from their attempts to communicate, scare, or just avoid the boredom of being in the house for hundreds of years, mixed with genuine unsettling specters and grim concepts along with the investigators who broke in being genuinely emotionally affected by some of their experiences, given this proves the existence of life after death. That is what I would want to see, at any rate, not a film taking itself too seriously but also not resorting to trite lessons about estranged family or the value of loving each other, done in a manner that is at times genuinely unsettling and flat out weird.

After thinking about this general outline, a few more points came up:

A few more points, as I thought of them while preparing dinner.

it would never be explained in the film outright, but the core concept would be the house/tourist attraction building itself would be a cosmic level supernatural being in its own right and could change the interior at will, as well as holding the ghosts and entities inside ‘trapped’ there. basically a giant supernatural venus fly trap. it is alive.

the paranormal investigators trapped within would venture at one point into the literal ghost town from the end of Phantom Manor, perhaps the conservatory scene morphing into it

the end of the movie would have whatever section of the house they were in peeling apart, disintegrating, into a odd dark void of vaguely organic nature, with a barely glimpsed, tentacled, disturbing beating ‘heart’ that releases waves of ectoplasmic energy and makes them sick when the waves touch them. the house is threatened by them being so close to its core, so it literally spits them out, them landing roughly on the cemetery lawn, all except one who is missing….

the final coda of the film would be another tour group walking down the corridor of doors, as we know it from Anaheim and WDW, cheesy sound effects echoing about, the door handles shaking or knocking, but among the ‘family photos’ on the walls is one of the missing investigator, a look of abject terror on their face, seeming to look a little more decayed, and we hear a faint echo of their voice calling out asking where they are, to let me out of here, where is everybody?….then cut to sudden black, and THE END? title card as in old schlocky b movie horror and scifi movies.

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Enjoy this 2014 video from one of my Florida trips. The People Mover is the best.

#WDW #Walt Disney World #PeopleMover #People Mover #Tomorrowland Transit Authority #Youtube

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Sometimes I like to daydream about my ideal Disneyland, which would feature a Mysteryland that includes a Gravity Falls area, an attraction based on Great Mouse Detective, and a 1920s murder mystery version of Haunted Mansion. More details about Mysteryland (and links to the rest of my ideal Disneyland) can be found here.

Mood Music: "Grim Grinning Ghosts" (Dance Party version) and "Are You Brave Enough (for Halloween)?"

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It's been a long time since I've had to do this, but due to my unemployment status (looking for work but also have to care for aged parents with serious health issues) and disability, I am having to ask for help through monetary donations. If you cannot or are not willing to help, that is completely okay. Reblogs also help and are very welcome. I am trying to get my car fixed as well as needing money for groceries. Thank you so much for reading, and hope you all out there are well. I'm going to be trying to update this page with new content as my energy and stress levels allow, in the near future.

#ko-fi

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Okay, I'm a little amused that Drac is influenced by Roxula and Cageula...

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951) dir. clyde geronimi, wilfred jackson + hamilton luke

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Goodbye to the one and only, original, Country Bear Jamboree. Thanks for bearing with us to the bear end!

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Nothing simultaneously warms my heart and makes me want to cry like those videos of Country Bear Jamboree packed full of people who all knew the words to every song

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As much as I would love to see Doreen Green live action I just KNOW they’d fuck it up by not casting a chubby girl and letting her have buck teeth. Ugh.

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The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland

Ok new game. What's the thing you're a fan of that you're the most pretentious about. NOT the most pretentious thing you're a fan of, I mean the thing that makes *you* act like one of those "oh yeah? Name five of their albums" people. There is a difference

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𝔇𝔦𝔰𝔫𝔢𝔶 𝔱𝔬𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔪𝔢𝔢𝔱 𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔯 𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔰 (𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔨’𝔰 𝔎𝔦𝔡)

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I haven't seen Wish yet, but I quite like this song.

#Youtube