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warningsine · 9 months
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vampyrhaus · 8 months
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Electric Gold but with updated references!!!!!!
(Left to Right: Andy, Jamie, David, Vince, John)
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nyaagolor · 11 months
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SV nickname scheme headcanons
I’m a sucker for team nicknames that fit a theme so I’ve been thinking abt the ones the SV characters might use!
Nemona: Fruits in Spanish (Níspero the Pawmot, Tamarindo the Dudunsparce)
Arven: Food (Rockefeller the Cloyster, Guindilla the Scovillain)
Penny: Anime references (Luna the Umbreon, Mewmew the Sylveon) though she’s a little embarrassed about it and often uses alternative names when strangers are around
Rika: Breakfast Foods (Benny the Donphan, Pancake the Clodsire)
Poppy: short generic names a four year old would give (Princess the Tinkaton, Sparkles the Copperajah)
Larry: Excel Commands (COUNTIF the Flamigo, ACCRINT the Staraptor)
Hassel: Mythical Dragons (Fafnir the Haxorus, Druk the Baxcalibur). His Flapple (an engagement-esque present from Brassius) is named Puff tho. Cutie dragon!!
Geeta: Gemstones in Spanish (Esmeraldo the Gogoat, Zafiro the Glimmora). In private though, she calls her Glimmora चम चम (cham cham)
Giacomo: Classical composers (Monteverdi the Honchkrow, Beethoven the Mabosstiff)
Mela: They’re academy Pokemon, so she didn’t name them! She does have cute nicknames for them (Archee for Arcanine, Lolo for Charlos)— though you’ll never hear her using these cute names in public
Atticus: Samurai (Kojiro the Skuntank, Masamune the Revaroom)
Ortega: Fashion designs (Dior the Azumarill, Coco the Daschbun)
Eri: Lucha Libre moves (Plancha the Lucario, Huracán the Annihilape)
Katy: French Pastries (Madeleine the Spidops, Charlotte the Ursaring)
Brassius: Famous sculptures (David the Sudowoodo, Venus the Arboliva)
Iono: She lets her highest paying subs pick the names of her Pokémon so they’re all random
Kofu: Edible Seaweed (Nori the Crabominable, Wakame the Veluza)
Ryme: Stage names! (DJ Hellraiser the Houndstone, D3AD-END the Toxtrixity)
Tulip: Princesses (Cleo the Florges, Anastasia the Espathra)
Grusha: Clouds (Cumulus the Cetitan, Nimbus the Altaria)
Clavell: Classical Literature (Dante the Houndoom, Darcy the Oranguru)
Raifort: Historial Spanish Houses (Savoy the Zoroark, Trastámara the Gengar)
Jacq: Biological Root Words (Soma the Swalot, Telet the Firigiraf)
Tyme: Numerical prefixes (Deca and Deci the Lycanrocs)
Saguaro: Pet names! (Honey the Pachirisu and Sweetie the Hatterene)
Salvatore: Hello in different languages (Merhaba the Persian, Annyeong the Raichu)
Dendra: Punches (Haymaker the Hariyama, Bolo the Medicham)
Miriam: Combining her Pokémon’s species with a common medicine (Priligurchin the Pinchurchin, Toxapexapro the Toxapex)
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medea10 · 1 year
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Medea Plays Pokemon Scarlet & Violet: Part III
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I’ll get to Larry soon enough.
This might be a longer than normal post. I got in an extra day of playing due to a snow storm preventing me from going to work. Tee-hee. Let’s see how my journey is fairing out.
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*gasp* Would you look at that?! A shiny! I’m not even a shiny hunter.
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Oh my goodness, two of them!
Just like with Legends Arceus, it’s a little easier to point out and find shinies.
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Is this a nod to the anime and TR’s Meowth or just a coincidence. I see what you did here, game.
I ran into more interesting-looking students again. Not as cringey as bruh who looks like a pedo. Buuut...
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Ooh, oh no. This woman got a Frollo hairdo-look going on. What are you doing, Pokemon?
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Okay, I have to admit. Out of all the memes on the internet involving the new Pokemon game, there’s one character/pokemon that I’m enjoying with all of the memes. I think you know who I mean.
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That’s right. Oop, wrong file photo.
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Yeah, I kinda fell in love with this sledgehammer-wielding psychopath.
Let’s see what’s up with school.
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Huh. This reminds me of a Ren and Stimpy episode.
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Them lummoxes love their meat on meat sandwiches. Maybe Miss Dendra is related to the lummoxes. Meanwhile, in art class...
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Say no more. I’m shipping this until the day I die. Hassel loves his dear Brassie. It chokes him up inside.
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Wow...um. I didn’t expect him to start crying because he heard Brassie-boy’s depression through art. This isn’t the last time you’ll see him cry.
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You have no idea, lady. Let’s check out the Team Star incident.
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Oh God. I know bullying is very wrong and everything, especially in this game. But...this kid just has such a punchable face. He’s like Bede, Dilandau, and Trip all mish-mashed into one entity.
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Seriously, this kid here. I would like to punch him. And that’s stiff competition because the last Team Star person I fought before this little dingleberry acts like David Cross playing a Warlock.
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But, you learn to let the fists go when you learn about Team Star and how they are not in the wrong. Like, at all. Everything stems back from 18 months ago. Team Star was bullied. Teachers did nothing. Team Star was formed under the guidance of the unseen boss. Turmoil hit the school. Bullies were sent to Galar. Teachers resigned. The former director covered everything up. Team Star was used as a scapegoat.
But educators like Clavell, Ms. Tyme, Jacq-strap, all of those people started AFTER this incident. The final Team Star boss is.
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Whoa. I am at a loss of words with Eri. Except, I think she might be the daughter to a professional ultimate fighter and Stripperella. I ain’t even sorry for that crack.
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After defeating all 5 squad bosses, you learn the hacker who told you to track down all the places and defeat the bosses that they are indeed the big boss. They will fight you on the school grounds at sundown. Let’s smash some titans.
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I know you see this ginormous fella earlier in the game, like when your team is at level 20-30. Heed my advice and wait until, maybe your 6th badge to fight him. If you don’t believe me, look at some playthroughs on Youtube. People were not expecting this. Now for the confusing titan.
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Is this the titan? I mean, he is bigger than some of the oth...
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Ohhhhhhhh shiiiiiii...
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Don’t worry, he comes back once you beat Monstro, the big, blue whatchamafucker.
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So, is this guy really the titan or was the big fella the titan? I don’t know. Let’s continue.
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Oh God...don’t kill me with this now.
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Doggo all better. Me happy. Me very happy. Let nothing ruin this...
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Bad timing. Bad timing from bad parent. And if you don’t believe me...
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I feel like this was Arven’s childhood in a nutshell.
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But now, Arven’s mother Professor Crazy Bitch needs his help.
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Wait, aren’t we forbidden from entering the hellhole of Paldea.
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That is not a good sign. Let’s wrap things up with the Victory Road saga.
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Meet Japanese businessman gym leader. A.K.A. Larry. And according to the internet, the most interesting man in Paldea. I’ll stick to my Tinkaton memes thank you very much.
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The interesting gym challenges continue. For Larry’s gym, you have to order the correct secret dish that he eats at this restaurant. You get clues from fighting trainers all over town.
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Next gym will have you compete in double battles in front of a crowd. When the crowd is warmed up, it’s time for a concert with Gym Leader Ryme. Yes, she’s the sister of your math teacher Miss Tyme.
Oh and the gym leader also does double battles. So there’s that.
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In the next gym, Miss Dendra comes in with battle faces. You will also fight some trainers. No, Dendra is not the gym leader. She’s just good friends with her.
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On a side-note, Miss Dendra is the best teacher.
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Anyways, fight the Cover Girl model and win a badge. In your final badge...
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You have to go through this Mario Party-style obstacle course and race down before time runs out. And then you can fight Grusha.
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I kept forgetting he was a boy this whole time. These characters confuse me greatly. Okay, you obtain all 8 badges, time to meet with Geeta the champ.
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I was really hoping the first time someone fought for me it would be Tracey Sketchit and not female-Goku over here.
So, you know how after you finish the gym battles, you go on to Victory Road and then face the Elite Four. There’s one trainer outside the Pokemon League and that’s it. Oh, there’s something you’ll have to face that’s more terrifying than 10+ trainers in a cave.
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I know I know all the answers. But she’s so intimidating that I fear I might slip-up.
After that, you face off against the Elite Four. This includes Rika, a toddler, your art teacher, and...
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They’re the same thing.
Yes, not since Koga have we seen such a jump. After you defeat all four of them, Geeta time.
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You know what? I have some things to say. This was by-far, the easiest Elite Four I’ve faced-off against. This might be because a year prior to this, I was facing off against Sinnoh’s Elite Four + Cynthia. Plus, these guys don’t stop in mid-battle to give their pokemon a Full Restore. They just take the beating, thinking they’re going to annihilate you. Spoiler alert, they don’t. Also, don’t expect to take them on again after this. You can only fight the Elite Four once.
That’s right. Let me say it again for the people in the back. This is the only time you can fight the Elite Four and Geeta in this setting.
And now you’re champ.
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He’s so overcome with joy. Okay, time for a sandwich break.
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To be continued...
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mask131 · 9 months
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Fantasy read-list: A-1.5
I thought I had concluded the whole “A” part of my big fantasy read-list last spring... 
... BUT FATE WOULD HAVE IT OTHERWISE! In between then and now I found a collection of articles covering the evolution and chronology of fantasy literature, and they added a lot more of titles and informations that I think I will add to my “Fantasy read-list”. 
My original “A-1″ post dealt with works of fiction and poetry that, beyond being masterpieces of the Greco-Roman literature, were the key basis of Greco-Roman mythology as we know it today, and massive inspirations for the later fantasy genre. Here, I will use an article written by Fabien Clavel asking the question “Is there an Antique fantasy?” to add some names to this list.
Not the names of works written in Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome however. No, when it comes to the great classics from “before Christ”, the same names are dropped - Hesiod’s Theogony, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, Ovid’s Metamorphoses... The only antique work Fabien Clavel mentions that I did not mention was Lucan’s Pharsalia. Also called “On the Civil War” it is, as the name says, an epic poem retelling the actual civil war that opposed Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. Why would a historical work fit into the world of fantasy you ask? Because this epic retelling is pretty-fantasy likes, with several omens and oracles of the gods (including trees that start bleeding like humans), and even scenes of necromancy where the ghosts of the dead answer the protagonists’ questions. 
Fabien Clavel’s article, however, focuses much more on the modern fantasy inspired by the Greek and Roman myths, that he classifies into four categories.
1) The retellings. Works of fantasy that retell classic legends or well-known myth of Greco-Roman antiquity. You find in this category the works of the fantasy author David Gemmel, be it his Troy trilogy (retelling of the Trojan war) or his Lion of Macedon trilogy (a more fantastical version of Alexander the Great’s life). You have Gene Wolf’s Soldier of the Mist, about the titular soldier, cursed with both retrograde and anterograde amnesia, and forced to find his way home through mythical Ancient Greece. There is C.S. Lewis’ last novel, Till we have faces, his retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth from The Golden Ass. And in French literature, you have Maurice Druon’s Les Mémoires de Zeus, an autobiography of Zeus himself. 
2) The “feminist” works - which technically are a sub-division of the “retellings”, since they are retellings of ancient legends and tales, but with the twist that the focus is placed on female characters, often side-lined or pushed away from Greco-Roman narratives. In this category you will find Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (the Odyssey through Penelope’s eyes), Maron Zimmer Bradley’s The Firebrand (the Trojan War as told by Cassandra), Ursula LeGuin’s Lavinia (an exploration of the titular character, from the Aeneid). To get out of the  English literature, you will also have the work of the Hungarian writer Magda Szabo, The Moment, or the Creusiad, another Aeneid retelling focusing on the character of Creusa. 
3) The “appropriation” works. No, this is not used in a negative way but a neutral one. In this category, Clavel places all the works that are not a precise retelling of a given myth or legend, but rather a fantasy story reusing the elements, tropes, characters and settings of Greek or Roman mythology. You have Thomas Burnett Swann’s Trilogy of the Minotaur, Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sarantine Mosaic series - and in French literature you have Rachel Tanner’s Le Cycle de Mithra, an uchrony imagining what the world would look like if Mithraism had become the official religion of the Roman Empire instead of Christianity. 
4) The “interaction” tales - aka, fantasy works that take elements of Greek mythology and have them be confronted by elements not belonging to Greek mythology. For example, there is the Merlin Codex series by Robert Holdstock, describing how Merlin the Enchanter resurrects Jason and the Argonauts in the Arthurian world. There is also in France Johan Heliot’s Reconquérants, an uchrony fantasy about a group of lost Roman colonizers who built a second Roman Empire in Northern America, and fifteen centuries later try to return to the “old world” they left behind only to find it overrun with mythical creatures. Finally, Clavel adds the Percy Jackson series, the new best-selling series of teenage fantasy fiction/urban fantasy a la “Harry Potter”, describing the adventures of an American teenage boy discovering the Greek gods moved to America, that he is the son of Poseidon, and that monsters of Greek mythology are trying to kill him. 
Clavel concludes his article by saying how hard it is to pinpoint exactly where the influence of Greek mythology stops in the fantasy world, since elements of Greek legends are omnipresent and overused in the fantasy genre. To illustrate this he mentions the centaurs, that appeared in four of the classic works of fantasy for children that are however VERY different from each other: Harry Potter, the Narnia Chronicles, the Artemis Fowl series, and The Neverending Story. 
As a personal note I will add to this list the recent success of Madeline Miller’s Greek mythology retellings, which I have seen regularly pop up in book shops and that some of my friends fell in love with (I never read them though) - be it her Song of Achilles (the life of Achilles told through the eyes of Patroclus) or her Circe (a novel about the life of the famous Greek witch). 
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nichecaesar · 1 year
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Not gonna lie, I hear everything Clavell says in David Bowie’s voice and I don’t care to try changing that.
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wikiuntamed · 2 months
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Top 5 @Wikipedia pages from yesterday: Friday, 1st March 2024
Welcome, добре дошли (dobre doshli), vítejte, أهلا بك (ahlan bika) 🤗 What were the top pages visited on @Wikipedia (1st March 2024) 🏆🌟🔥?
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1️⃣: George Galloway "George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale since the 2024 by-election. He has been the leader of the Workers Party of Britain since he founded it in 2019. Between 1987 and 2010, and between 2012 and..."
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4️⃣: Shōgun (2024 TV series) "Shōgun is an American historical drama limited series created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by James Clavell, which was previously adapted into a 1980 limited series. The series premiered with its first two episodes on February 27, 2024, on Hulu and..."
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brookstonalmanac · 7 months
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Birthdays 10.10
Beer Birthdays
Patrick Perkins (1838)
Walter Jerome Green (1842)
George W. Schimminger (1857)
Barbara Groom (1946)
Thomas Cizauskas
Five Favorite Birthdays
Brett Favre; Green Bay Packers QB (1969)
Thelonius Monk; jazz pianist (1917)
Maurice Prendergast; artist (1858)
John Prine; folk singer (1946)
Bradley Whitford; actor (1959)
Famous Birthdays
Henry Cavendish; chemist, physicist (1731)
James Clavell; writer (1924)
Peter Coyote; actor (1941)
Paul Creston; composer (1906)
Dale Earnhardt Jr.; automobile racer (1974)
Jessoca Harper; actor (1949)
Helen Hayes; actor (1900)
Chiaki Kuriyama; Japanese actor (1984)
Bai Ling; actor (1966)
Gavin Newsom; politician (1967)
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe; actor (1978)
Chris Penn; actor (1965)
Harold Pinter; English writer (1930)
Nora Roberts; writer (1950)
David Lee Roth; rock singer (1955)
Robert Gould Shaw; Civil War soldier (1837)
Julia Sweeny; actor, comedian (1959)
Tanya Tucker; country singer (1958)
Midge Ure; Scottish rock musician (1953)
Giuseppe Verdi; Italian composer (1813)
Ben Vereen; actor, dancer (1946)
Jean-Antoine Watteau; French artist (1684)
Benjamin West; artist (1738)
Ed Wood; film director (1924)
Lin Yutang; Chinese writer (1895)
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warningsine · 9 months
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docrotten · 2 years
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THE FLY (1958) – Episode 133 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
“Help me! Please, help meeeeeee! No! Go away! No! Please! Help me! Please, go away! Go away! No! No! No! No!” …said the fly to the spider …and his brother. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Whitney Collazo, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr – as they discuss a movie that contains some of the most shocking scenes of the 1950s and which became a milepost in Vincent Price’s career in horror films, The Fly(1958).
Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 133 – The Fly (1958)
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A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
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  Director: Kurt Neumann
Writers: James Clavell (screenplay); George Langelaan (based on a story by)
Cinematographer: Karl Struss
Special makeup effects: Ben Nye 
Selected Cast:
David Hedison (credited as Al Hedison) as André Delambre
Patricia Owens as Hélène Delambre
Vincent Price as François Delambre
Herbert Marshall as Inspector Charas
Kathleen Freeman as Emma
Betty Lou Gerson as Nurse Anderson
Charles Herbert as Philippe Delambre
Eugene Borden as Dr. Éjoute
Torben Meyer as Gaston
The first of five “Fly” movies, The Fly is Jeff’s pick for this episode. It’s one of those movies from his childhood that indelibly printed its horrific scenes in his memory. Watching now, he is still impressed with the movie, especially in the way the story is told and with the Ben Nye-created makeup effects.
Chad agrees that The Fly is a fantastic horror film. It feels more real to him than a lot of science fiction-horror movies of the 50s adding that it is the characters that help make it so. The reveal of Andre’s (David Hedison) fly head feels almost like the face reveal in The Phantom of the Opera (1925). The Fly was nightmare fuel for Whitney when she first saw it as a child on Halloween night, complete with a candy bag that included fake spiders. Daphne fell in love with The Fly during the first few minutes when blood drips down the side of an hydraulic press and the night watchman’s scream morphs into a telephone ringing in Francois’s (Vincent Price) office. 
It’s probably not surprising that the Classic Era Grue Crew thinks The Fly is a true classic of the horror genre. If you’re ready to refresh your memory, as of this writing, The Fly can be streamed from HBO max as well as several PPV sources. It is also available on physical media as a 20th Century Fox Blu-ray and as one of five Blu-ray discs included in Scream Factory’s The Fly Collection. Also included in The Fly Collection are Return of the Fly (1959), Curse of the Fly (1965), The Fly (1986), and The Fly II (1989).
Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule is one chosen by next episode’s guest host, Steven Turek: Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) starring Michael Gough.
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vampyrhaus · 1 year
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Electric Gold
A 1981 New Romantic & New Wave originating from London. With lead singer David Costello, guitarist Jamie Reeves, bass guitarist John Clavell, drummer Andy Fornell, and synthesist Vince Foxx, they create energetic and passionate music comparable to those of ABC, Ultravox!, and Duran Duran.
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Benedetta (2021)
Director - Paul Verhoeven, Cinematography - Jeanne Lapoirie
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"God speaks in many languages, if your heart is brave enough to open it up."
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genevieveetguy · 3 years
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Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven (2021)
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screamscenepodcast · 2 years
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Based on the famous 1957 short story from George Langelaan comes THE FLY (1958) from director/producer Kurt Neumann! This disturbing horror stars Patricia Owens, David Hedison, Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall.
Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 48:16; Discussion 1:03:28; Ranking 1:35:40
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irmagallosstuff · 3 years
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Las lecturas que la pandemia me dejó
Las lecturas que la pandemia me dejó
Por Irma Gallo Faltan menos de dos semanas para que se acabe este 2020, que parece creado por la mente de Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury o Isaac Asimov. Es buen momento para hacer balances; es más, casi todo el mundo los está haciendo: los medios tradicionales con sus resúmenes con “lo mejor del año”, o los colectivos con propuestas mucho más interesantes, como los maratones de…
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