New Horror 2022 - Day 3
"The Portrait of Sal Pullman" by Lonnie Nadler & Abby Howard (2019)
"You fools, do you not see what this truly is?"
Abby Howard is the ruler of the kingdom of creepy illustrated faces. Er, maybe the architect. The wizard behind the curtain? Oh, the god, the god.
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"The Black Stone Statue" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1937)
"And those were the last words he ever uttered."
Finding scary things deep in the jungle is what it’s all about in adventure stories, but the turn in this one (which is presented right up front) is neat. It’s more of that morality tale we would get from stuff like The Twilight Zone later on.
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"O Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M.R. James & Abby Howard (2019)
"If you see any more spooks or beasties, please do let me know."
I often fantasize about illustrating text stories if I had the skill, just to visualize what’s in the brain. It’s cool to see Howard taking that on with one of these old timey and appropriately spooky stories.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers dir. Don Siegel (1956)
"She's not my mother! Don’t tell her where I am!"
The 30s movies are rough but things start to feel more my pace here in the 50s. I reckon it’s from having watched sitcoms like I Love Lucy and plenty of noir classics so the pacing and style is more familiar. As for the movie, it’s clear why it terrified audiences then and the concept continues to persist. Communism, corporations, conservatives, all a way to address the fear of an insidious enemy.
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New Horror 2022 - Day 24
"Turn Out the Light" by Penelope Love (2015)
"The distance they had struggled with all their lives was now made infinite by death."
The horror of a gulf between mother and son.
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"The Cemetery" by Franco, Abigail Larson, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)
"Don't you just want to get this over with?"
How do we learn to navigate the scary stuff? And why do some of us make it while others don’t?
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Trouble Every Day dir. Claire Denis (2001)
"Do you believe in loyalty, Mr. Brown? What about betrayal?"
This pendulum swings from horrifying to erotic and back again so many times it made my head spin. I had to look up what the hell was going on afterward. I’m certainly learning a lot about the New French Extremity this month.
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Halloween Forever dev. Imaginary Monsters (2016)
"Our butternut hero returns to his life as a mundane carved gourd.”
A cute Halloween platformer that hits many horror monster tropes. These sorts of games tend to lean into that “Nintendo hard” mentality but the developers are thankfully lenient and keep it a short and sweet experience.
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Brad's reactions to Frank
1975 Film -Barry Bostwick, 2015 UK-Ben Foster, 2016 Film-Ryan McCartan, 2018 Iceland-Jón Atli Jónasson , 2018-Korea Jin Tae-hwa (I think) and 2022 Mexico-Moisés Araiza as Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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