#chester bennett

[dustymagpie]

A tag from a post of the BARGHEST boys (that I cannot find as I cannot remember what it even looked like) by @ouroboros-hideout made me think of this pic

So I had to recreate it!

#cyberpunk 2077 #jago szabó #kurt hansen #chester bennett #albert murphy #phantom liberty

[elvenbeard]

Run this Town

I promised @ouroboros-hideout epic Kurt content... and after first doing something silly and not so serious instead, here's the actual thing they pictured xD

#cyberpunk 2077 #phantom liberty #phantom liberty spoilers #kurt hansen #jago szabó #chester bennett #my vp #cyberpunk vp #cp2077 vp #colonel handsome and his right-hand and left-hand men

[fishhhhshh]

Hô hô I did the funny I have not been playing MK Imagine knowing how to draw and then draw this

#and I watered down the bulshit text I wrote on the first pic to save you one day in the hospital #my insurance doesn't cover this #I have more art of the croissant twins but my Viet Minh grandpa said no #anyways they're all shitty people and not at the same time I love them #cyberpunk 2077 #phantom liberty #fanart #kurt hansen #solomon reed #songbird #aurore cassel #aymeric cassel #cyberpunk v #chester bennett #anguilar #also no idea why 1am Fish decided to put Russian Roulette in there but uhhhh #마지막 남은 순간까지 #점점 다가오지 crazy #아찔하게 겨눈 russian roulette #Ah-ah-ah-yeah

[kdval]

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

› Kurt Hansen

#cyberpunk 2077 #kurt hansen #chester bennett #cp2077edit #gamingnetwork #gamingedit #dailygaming #virtual photography #game photography #cp2077 kdval

[awwwokay]

Honorary Barghest men post

#cyberpunk 2077 #phantom liberty #cp2077 #cyberpunk 2077 phantom liberty #barghest #jago szabó #chester bennett #yuri bychkov

[fonfan121]

#cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunkgame #cp2077 #cassandra wolhuter #kurt hansen #jago szabó #chester bennett #charles graham #yuri bychkov #albert murphy #wiosna blazkowicz #stephanie padmore

[blackrevell]

Kurt, darling, your undying trust in your combat buddies is adorable, but sometimes you should check twice. Not gonna lie though, I love this entire "jock vs nerd" dynamic they have between Bennett and Jago.

#bennett leaks barghest intel like a strainer #arasaka; mr.hands; who knows what else #chester bennett #jago szabó #albert murphy #kurt hansen #cyberpunk 2077 #phantom liberty #rev post

[aggravateddurian]

The Alpha Bitch of Dogtown | Casino Royale

"Welcome to the Black Sapphire! Eat, drink, gamble and be merry!"

When V throws a party at the Black Sapphire, she really throws a party.

#cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk 2077 phantom liberty #chorus timelines #the alpha bitch of dogtown #oc: vega 'v' hawse #oc: dorian bautista #chester bennett

[maschinen-mensch]

Bennett about Jago:

#Cyberpunk 2077 #Phantom Liberty #Jago Szabó #Chester Bennett #love when there's a crime group of MACHO BIG MUSCLE MEN and then there's one smaller but suave mofo with the only working brain cell

[shibasawamomoinu]

#chester bennett #cp2077 #cyberpunk 2077

[musashden]

While playing Cyberpunk…

Some random NPC: Bennett and Jago actually work great together and things are looking good for Dogtown

Me: … they’re fucking 🤣🤣🤣

#cyberpunk 2077 #chester bennett #jago szabo #their size and personality difference is really cute #jago is canonically trans #transgenger characters

[dustymagpie]

The Barghest parties go pretty wild

#cyberpunk 2077 #chester bennett #Jago Szabó #Stephanie Padmore #OTP: Diamond Dogs #Charles Graham

[cyberpunkpics]

#cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #Chester Bennett

[anhed-nia]

BLOGTOBER 10/3/2022: NIGHT OF THE DEMON/CURSE OF THE DEMON/I'M A BIG FAT IDIOT

I am a living cautionary tale. Don't be like me. When you're trying to watch a new-to-you movie, unless you're really sure of your education, look it up first and make sure you know what the running time is supposed to be. I understood that this movie had been released as both CURSE OF THE DEMON and NIGHT OF THE DEMON, but I'm used to seeing multiple titles on older genre films, and I naively assumed that no one would have dared to chop up a Jacques Tourneur movie for any reason. Shows what I know—turns out I was missing around 10 whole minutes of movie because that's what stupid Prime had to offer me, and I didn't think to look over the merchandise first. The present review was written after a review of both versions, but I still feel the need to confess. And anyway, now you know how film illiterate I am just from the fact that this even happened.

The sad thing is that this isn't even the first time something like this happened to me. In a previous Blogtober season I watched a version of NIGHT OF 1,000 CATS that was scarcely an hour long, which I just assumed might be expected because it's a really lowdown exploitation movie; to be fair, there isn't a normally available complete version of that movie, but I might have just left it off my program if I knew what I was getting into. And then I made the mistake of showing someone what turned out to be a censored version of BAD LIEUTENANT, which I'm still ashamed of, but I just assumed that in the modern era we aren't still circulating Walmart versions of movies outside of, you know, Walmart. (We course-corrected when it suddenly became obvious that something was wrong, but I still feel guilty) In any case, it appears that NIGHT OF THE DEMON (the proper title of the full-length feature) suffered quite a lot regarding what was and was not meant to be in the picture, although I didn't guess it from watching CURSE OF THE DEMON, which I enjoyed on its own terms.

The film, based on "The Casting of the Runes" by renowned medievalist and ghost story scribe M.R. James, concerns skeptical psychologist John Holden (Dana Andrews), who takes up the investigation of a satanic cult after the original researcher dies suspiciously. The only witness to the professor's death also happens to be the only cultist willing to be interviewed, who has fallen catatonic with fright. During a rare lucid moment, he draws a picture of what he allegedly saw: A giant monster that resembles historical descriptions of a "fire demon". Holden and Joanna Harrington (Peggy Cummins), the daughter of the deceased, run up against Mephistophelean cult leader Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis), who puts a curse on Andrews for his troubles. As they quest on, the stubborn sleuths soon succumb to the dread and paranoia sown by the threat that the fire demon is now after Holden.

The film is typical of Tourneur in its expressionistic beauty and haunting atmosphere, which keeps one engrossed even if the heroes are a couple of naive ninnies, with the eminently victimizable Andrews really seeming to ask for it. Everybody knows that the villain is always the best role anyway, and the characterization of Dr. Karswell is a lot of fun. The erudite occultist lives on a lavish estate with his elderly mother (Athene Seyler), where he occasionally (and alarmingly) entertains children as a clown. Despite his superior attitude, he confesses to old Mrs. Karswell that not only does he inflict fear on others—emphasizing to Holden that the mounting dread he feels will be almost as bad as his death at the hands of the demon—but he himself is motivated by fear. When you buy into the lifestyle of devil worship, you live in fear of the devil: "It's part of the price." This adds an unusual dimension to a familiar character who, rather than bragging about his genuinely supernatural abilities, focuses on the natural psychological effects of being cursed. As he remarks casually to Holden, "How can we differentiate between the powers of darkness and the powers of the mind?"

Paranoia, brilliantly realized by cinematographer Ted Sciafe.

And actually, therein lies the central controversy of this troubled production. Producer Hal E. Chester apparently set out to make a garden variety B-movie, often trying to cut corners that earned him the ire of writer (and frequent Hitchcock collaborator) Charles Bennett, Jacques Tourneur, and Dana Andrews. At the same time that Chester tried to cheap out on certain visual effects, he also insisted on displaying the demon in all its handmade glory. For Tourneur and Bennett, this was wholly against the point of the story, which is rather explicitly about the demons of paranoia and superstitious delusion. The wording of Tourneur's protest is salient: "The audience should never have been completely certain of having seen the demon." You have to sympathize with the director and writer, whose material was so undermined by the producer's insistence on special effects to pander to the hoi polloi. But I must admit, I really enjoy the demon. It may be enough to know that it was assembled by George Blackwell, who has credits on no lesser gems than THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES and THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, and Wally Weever, who worked on spectacles ranging from THINGS TO COME to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Accordingly, the creature is wonderfully disgusting and evil, more so the closer up you get. I used to see this thing on beat-up, sunbleached VHS boxes as a kid and wonder what it was really like; the movie seemed so staid and British, could it really have this weird gristly monstrosity in it? The image was often pretty low res, or actually painted, so I thought it was probably created just for merchandising purposes. I was dead wrong. It's really like that, and it's pretty horrifying! I understand the gripe, but I'm glad I wasn't deprived of this special creation.

And, finally, I discovered that the differences between NIGHT and the leaner, meaner CURSE are not as insulting as I feared. The story is essentially the same, but one version is more methodical, while the other is trimmer, and rearranged strategically to give certain plot beats a different punch. It's a neat piece of knifework, not at all a hatchet job, and anybody interested in story editing would have an instructive experience watching them both. Primate that I am, I think I actually prefer CURSE, which snips scenes that I thought dragged, and lends the whole affair a sharper edge. I don't know if I'm supposed to admit that, but I guess I just did!

Another lesson you can learn from this review is that the longer cuts are not always the richest. Another cinema sin I once committed was witlessly showing a friend the extended(est) version of THE PREY, which in its shortest edition is one of my favorite horror movies ever—but with a lengthy softcore sequence directed by a third party stuffed into the middle of it, its hypnotic spell is broken and it turns into a big old slog with points of interest scattered at the beginning and end. At least I can tell you that in my personal estimation, no matter which version of DEMON you watch, you probably won't feel like it was a big mistake.

#blogtober #blogtober 2022 #curse of the demon #night of the demon #jacques tourneur #charles bennett #hal e. chester #dana andrews #peggy cummins #niall macginnis #ted scaife #wally weever #george blackwell #horror #supernatural #occult #demon #satanism #cult #athene syler

[radio-flora-tm]

#Curtis Williams #Nikki Sixx #Jermaine Jackson #Philip 'Spike' Edney #Chester Thompson #Brenda Lee #David Gates #Rita Moreno #Big Mama Thornton #Easther Bennett

[awwwokay]

Jago and Bennett’s whole dynamic is basically the nerd being bullied by a jock 😭

#cyberpunk 2077 #phantom liberty #cp2077 #cyberpunk 2077 phantom liberty #jago szabó #chester bennett #barghest