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Trailer park Steve AU part 19
part 1 | part 18 | ao3
November
As annoyed as Steve is to admit it, Dustin’s plan actually works.
(And he is annoyed, for the record. That little shithead should be glad he’s still grounded because Steve’s sorely tempted to invite him over just to give him a wedgie.)
Somewhere in the weeks following The Abduction Incident, he and Eddie become friends. Like, real ones. Friends who talk and laugh and shoot the shit in passing, who trade movies and mix tapes and ask each other if they saw the latest headlines in the morning paper.
They haven’t really had much chance to properly hang out, but Steve sees him most mornings, because he promised Wayne to keep making sure Eddie doesn’t sleep in on school days, and sometimes when they’re both around in the afternoons they’ll have a couple beers together, share a cigarette on the lumpy loveseat on the front porch of Eddie’s place.
And Eddie’s…
Eddie’s funny. Oddly charming. Theatrical and weird. Steve already knew that last part, but it’s so much better when it’s not being used as an offensive weapon against him. He likes being in on Eddie’s jokes.
Just plain likes Eddie, if he’s honest.
“Steve?”
Which should be crazy. It is crazy; if someone had told him a couple years ago that he’d be spending his free time with The Freak — that he would regret missing the guy’s Halloween show because of a Family Video shift, or that he would spend a week working up the courage to ask him if he wants to ride to school with Robin and him in the mornings? He probably would have kicked their ass for the mere suggestion.
But now he’s half-orphaned trailer trash who knows that monsters exist, so. Eh.
“Steve! Hello? Earth to Steve.”
Steve blinks, focuses on the fingers Robin’s snapping in front of his face. “Huh?” he asks dumbly.
He expects her to roll her eyes and pretend to chastise him with some butchered version of his name— ‘Steven Cardamom Harrington, were you daydreaming again?’ — but she just snaps her fingers again and begs, “A little help here? Please?” Her eyes are wide, her shoulder scrunched up to her ears with stress, and Steve realizes that:
a) he’s been staring blankly at a cart of go-backs for ten minutes instead of actually doing his job, and
b) the store is suddenly packed.
Friday night, and the rain that’s been hanging over Hawkins all week finally let up, so now everyone and their mother is apparently out running errands.
He moves to man the front desk because the line is almost out the door, and Robin buzzes around the room like a shaken can of pure panic, her bangs sticking to her forehead as she zooms up and down aisles with the restock cart. She keeps making crazy eyes at parents when they stop her to ask about new releases or the age-appropriateness of films, because the parents are distracting her from intercepting their little gremlin children, who keep putting movies on the wrong shelves on purpose just to piss her off.
“Dumbo! Does not go! In the horror section!” Steve hears her bark at a group of third graders, and he has to crouch down behind the counter for a second so she doesn’t see him laughing when she follows that up with a strangled, “Ugh!!!”
Okay.
Entertaining as this is, he’s not getting chewed out by Keith again for missing quotas because Robin blew a gasket and scared off all the customers.
“Hey, Rob?” he calls out to her as he hands a woman her change.
“What?”
“Go take a smoke break?”
He knows she doesn’t smoke. He also knows that sometimes rushes like this get to be too much for her — the noise, the lights, the chaos of a crowd (“the mouth sounds, Steve; good god, the mouth sounds”) — and she needs a minute or twelve to go stand outside in the cool air, flap her hands around and scream behind a dumpster or whatever until she calms down.
Her eyes flash at the suggestion like she’s about to snap at him, but then she takes a deep breath and marches herself out the back door without another word.
With Robin cleared out, the crowd thins out pretty quickly. Steve gets the line taken care of at a speed he’s definitely not getting paid enough to maintain, and the kids get bored of playing ‘rearrange the inventory’ and wander off to the arcade.
It’s sort of soothing, the mindless flow of it: scan, click, click, make change, “thanks for choosing Family Video,” print receipt, repeat. His mind wanders again as he works, but it doesn’t sink into its usual sludge of despair; doesn’t wail ‘house bills mom pills stress fuck-fuck’ like a tornado siren in his head until he gives himself a migraine.
No, he’s thinking about denim. About cigarette smoke.
Crooked smile; Chiclet teeth.
Patches and pins with strange names and stranger artwork.
And then he’s thinking about how this is the second time tonight he’s started daydreaming about Eddie and wills himself to knock it off.
What? The guy’s friendly with him a handful of times, and suddenly he’s, like, obsessed with him?
He’s not.
He’s not.
He's just… pleasantly distracted by him; that's all.
“Thanks for choosing Family Video,” he tells the last customers as he hands them their receipt. The second they turn to leave, he slumps over the counter with his head pillowed on his arms, a wave of exhaustion hitting him because holy shit that was so many people and thank god the store’s finally empty.
The bell over the door dings.
Goddammit.
Steve lifts his head, reminds himself not to scowl at paying customers because he really needs this job, but then—
“Eddie! Hey!”
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part 20
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Happy Halloween | Crewel Daughter Reader
“Well you didn’t think I’d let you have a party without me!”
“(Y/N)! (Y/n)! (Y/n)”
Magicking yourself onto the campus as soon as the Princess Academy would let wasn’t easy
But special cases had special circumstances
Dressed miraculously as a spider queen with your dogs wearing cute spider costumes
Makeup and costume still intact you immediately blend in with the students as they provide help to their guests and taking a pictures
“You look divine, (Y/n).” "As do you, Vil. Custom design?” “Only ever.” “It looks glorious.” “Thank you dear.”
Vil Schoenheit is more than happy to be the one in charge of the Halloween Committee
He’s happy you got to see his work
“You don’t know the week I’ve had.” “Tell me about it. Sitting at the table with Malleus Draconia is practically making you glow.” You mocked chuckling as his frown deepened. “A shame Jack was the only one on the committee…I would have liked to see you in a costume that looks so…good on him..”
You may have put Leona in a worse mode
“Idia your craftsmanship never fails to impress.” “Th-thanks (Y-y/n)!” “Your exhibit for Pumpkin Hollow go alright? I was so excited you were doing that movie.” “Y-yeah..I-I can give y-you a private showing later…if you want.”
Blushing indefinitely he’s happy he at least attended the party and survived being around all the extroverted people
“(Y/n)! (Y/N)! You see my costume, I look like a werewolf, right!?!” “Heh, yes you do.” “Do you think I look scary? A lot of people said I didn’t.” “I think anything you do is charming; and I’m sure when you tried your hardest you were terrifying.” “Oh…Thanks (Y/n) that means a lot.”
Kalim doesn't think he's ever felt so warm in his life even against the dry heat of Scarabia
“All on a budget, huh Azul? You and your vice wardens are a wonder. He blushes, shoving his glasses up in hopes to hide it. “I appreciate that! Out of curiosity was the vendor I recommended..sufficient?” “They were perfect for the occasion and I expected no less from you, Azul, thank you.” “N-no problem.”
“Hey Riddle, how are you doing?” “Fine, we had our run in with the magicam monsters but thankfully…they removed themselves.” Sharing a smile. “I would have loved to see you in action.” “And I to you. Cater has been raving about your display. Critics are impressed.”
He's actually really upset that he didn't get to see but he knows you totally crushing it
Last but not least you found Malleus lingering near the still decorated Ramshackle
Hiking up your dress to climb the steps before standing next to the fae prince who was still looking at his dorm’s display
“Having fun, Mal?” “I did. I am (now that you're here). Are you?” “I did…but it seems as though I missed all the real fun.”
You nodded to his tail that was happily dragging across the ground missing the intense look of longing that Malleus was giving you
Meeting your contented gaze, he happily followed you back to the party
“Next time we’ll have to spend Halloween together. Maybe even in Briar Valley.”
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hi hi if you were to write/direct a horror movie, is there a particular subgenre and/or theme you'd be most interested in exploring?
^_^ !!
i have two movies i would love to make. the first is a very traditional slasher movie. i love slashers and i feel that a huge proportion of the modern slashers we've had are way too obsessed with being metatextual and trying to comment on tropes in a way that makes them slogs to watch. its gotten really bogged down with tedious reflections on genre that have been made a hundred times and this constant obsession with making the movies actually about trauma in some way, without having anything meaningful to say about it. they're also mostly all reboots, and not good ones.
my dream slasher would be going back to movies like texas chainsaw and Halloween, focusing more intensely on atmosphere and palpable dread, no forced comedic genre deconstruction, just a sole killer with a distinctive look and a sense of tension and fear. that said i would definitely love to go for the extreme in the kills too. i am a gorehound unfortunately.
the other movie id love to make is a psychological horror that's more in the style of something like jacob's ladder. there's a huge amount of horror and also psychological crime thrillers that draw their horror from a fear of the mentally ill. characters like michael myers who are escaped from an insane asylum are extremely commonplace, so is the idea of the asylum as a place of horror. like there's a real rampant ableism in horror going back honestly before we even had recorded film. something that has always played on my mind is how much horror is about people thinking they're going crazy or doubting reality, and how much of it is about "real" crazy people who are murderers and monsters, but none of it is from the perspective of people who are like . actually in need of care.
the proposal is: a story about an asylum and the inmates who have to begin investigating something evil occurring inside. would be very easy to build this into a story reflecting on the treatment of the disabled and mentally ill historically. i just really think its annoying how more or less every story you can find about someone in an evil mental hospital is about a "normal" healthy person who was committed wrongfully, with the other residents usually as props or obstacles. even when the systems are depicted as evil, they're only evil when they're affecting "good" people. horror has gone a long time using mental illness as a prop and i feel like people who are suffering from unglamorous and difficult disorders get the stick, and the stuff that is depicted (usually ambiguous "trauma" or depression) is done badly.
in general though honestly the thing i want to do in any horror i make is for it to be as unpleasant as possible. i love making people upset
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Sofia the First Season 2 in a Nutshell
Two Princesses and a Baby - 10/10
Amber wishes she wouldnt have to share her birthday with her twin James, so he gets magically turned into a toddler. Hijnks ensue. Another brilliant moment of character growth for Amber and showing how much she really cares for James, despite them being polar opposites.
The Enchanted Feast - 9/10
Miss Nettle returns disguised as a visiting sorceress in order to steal the amulet but Sofia is having none of that shit so she gets her critter army to stop Nettle. Also Snow White is here in properly the best media appearance she will ever get since Kingdom Hearts
The Flying Crown - 3/10
Sofia befriends the brooding jock Prince Hugo cos apparently she doesnt have a life. Look, I know you need to work with him to do your flying derby race, Sof, but dont bother with this Hunter expy.
Mom's The Word - 10/10
Its Sofia's first Mother's Day in the castle and she gets left out when her mother is spending more time with Amber and James. One of the show's core themes is teaching kids about blended families and Sofia struggling to adjust sharing her mother with her step siblings is very potent.
The Silent Knight - 4/10
Aunt Tilly falls for some NPC knight, when Cedric is right over there. Like show, if you were gonna ship any couple. I want sorceror failhusband and chaotic adventurer wife. Or hell, the drama teacher Miss Elodie for a gay option.
Enchanted Science Fair - 7/10
James, Amber, Vivian, Khaled and Desmond fight each over a science project but they all realise that Sofia is always right and they would all be dead without her.
King For A Day - 6/10
James tries being king to see what its like and yknow, this episode's hilarious to watch in hindsight cos its revealed James isnt even the heir to the throne lol
When You Wish Upon a Well - -4/10
Amber does something incredibly illegal but gets off the hook cos Sofia and their dad are enablers
Gizmo Gwen - 8/10
Aw cool, a castle maid who's also an inventor and engineer! What a wonderful addition to the ca-annnnd she's not gonna appear for the rest of the series, is she?
Sofia the Second - 10/10
Sofia learning about how to keep promises even if it means giving up something else? An evil Sofia clone who's a delightfully evil gremlin? Sign me the fuck up!
Mystic Meadows - 8/10
Sofia's girl scout group goes to a wizard retirement home where Cedric's parents live and she helps Cedric win his dad's approval and stop his micromanaging bs. Also, Hell canonically exists in Sofia the First and that fact alone is both disturbing and hilarious
Princesses to the Rescue! - 9/10
James and his friend Jin get captured by a discount Tai Lung and their dads end up being captured too cos theyre that stupid. So its up to Sofia, Jun and Amber to save the day. Also Mulan is here and its a nice touch they gave her the armour she worn throughout most of her original movie.
Ghostly Gala - 7/10
On Halloween, Sofia befriends the undead and convinces everyone in the castle that they're not seeing things, honest. Seriously, this girl could befriend Eldritch monsters and convince everyone that they're chill.
The Emerald Key - 10/10
A Hawaiian princess has lost a precious heirloom and washes up on the shores of Enchancia, calling for help. Another Hawaiian princess shows up, declaring shes the real deal. The Enchanican royal family immediately decide the best way to tell these two indigenous princesses apart is to get them to partake in white royal etiquette and activities and automatically assume the one doing the best at all of them is the real princess. Sofia realises that the imposter is always the whitewashed one.
Scrambled Pets - 5/10
Pet hijinks: the episode
The Princess Stays in the Picture - 3/10
Man, after Amber became a good person, the writers really doubled down on making her friend Hildegarde the new alpha bitch. Supposedly this was the episode to humanise her but honestly after watching this whole series, she really hasnt improved since this episode so it feels like lightning in a bottle we will never get again. The highlight was definitely Sofia yelling at Hildegarde's constant know it all attitude.
Baileywhoops - 8/10
Finally, Baileywick gets a good episode. I love the idea that Baileywick is such a good steward that EVERY OTHER STEWARD IN EVERY KINGDOM WANTS TO BE HIM OR WANTS HIS JOB. He's like the Alfred of this show.
The Curse of Princess Ivy - 10/10
Amber steals Sofia's amulet out of jealousy, unleashes an evil princess by mistake and now all hell's broken loose. Sofia really rakes Amber over the coals in this special and its glorious. Again, another episode that develops Amber as a character and its great to see the message of earning forgiveness and actually putting the effort in to change, instead of putting pressure on the victim to just enable their abuser's behaviour. Rapunzel's there as well with a banger song.
Winter's Gift - 8/10
Sofia meets a fawn named Autumn, who freezes everything she touchs and she fucking hates it. (Hmm, wonder why Elsa or Anna didnt show up in this ep?) However, Autumn fears the witch who gave her the powers in the first place won't do it cos she hasnt got her a nice enough gift in return. Turns out the witch is super nice, actually.
The Leafsong Festival - -8/10
Clover's dragon friend Crackle gives up her fire powers so she can be in a talent show but she has to get it back or THE ENTIRE KINGDOM WILL FREEZE TO DEATH AND APPARENTLY A SMALL DRAGON CAN MELT A KINGDOM'S SIZED COAT OF ICE.
Substitute Cedric - 10/10
Cedric begrudgingly decides to be substitute at Sofia's school for a day but turns out he really enjoys teaching and helps the kids practice magic on some wizard bullies. Cedric becoming more of a cool uncle is the best. Also, Sofia yelling the phrase "prank day is over!" to the wizard bullies as a war cry is really badass.
Clover Time - 4/10
Clover acts like a shitty roommate to Sofia, which is weird cos I thought Clover already lived with Sofia. Yknow, him being her pet and all.
In a Tizzy - -5/10
Ruby gets her own fairy godmother to help her build a cart and practice for a go-cart race. Thats neat! And yet, this all could've been solved if Ruby's mum was in the episode
A Tale of Two Teams - 6/10
I love how despite being a royal for like a year now, Sofia always chooses her old friends whenever she can. Neat how this is the episode where Jade actually needs glasses as her vision is causing her problems during kickoff. Amber also learns to manage and be a good coach. Man, the writers really put their all into giving Amber little intricacies with her character and James has...knight stuff
The Littlest Princess - 7/10
Sofia befriends a group of freeloading spirites who cause havoc in the castle and has to find a way to convince them to leave since that's the only way to get rid of them. I like how Sofia's flaw of being too trusting to everyone she meets causes trouble and Miranda gets to shine as being the best parent/role model in Sofia's life.
Buttercup Amber - 10/10
For some reason, Amber joins Sofia's girl scout camping trip and unlike the last experience with Baileywick, this one is actually fun. Seriously, Amber brought her entire wardrobe of dresses to camp and the girls inspire her to create a huge tent out of them. Nice to see Amber has changed a lot since Season 1 already.
Carol of the Arrow - -8/10
Ah yes, I love watching Sofia the First talking about anti-royalism, despite being set in a world where the royals are super friendly and interventionalist, there is no classism between the royals and commoners and that colonialisation doesnt exist. And yet we have a non-furry Robin Hood trying to help the common folk and Sofia's standing there like 'oh she's my fave celeb i cant be a royal!! i'll pretend to be a commoner again so i can show her royals can do something' but SHE'S GOT NO REASON TO HIDE HER IDENTITY COS SHE'S A FAMOUS PRINCESS AND ISNT EVEN HIDING HER NAME AND APPARENTLY FEM ROBIN HOOD FINDS OUT ABOUT HER AND REALISES OH HEY MAYBE ROYALS ARENT LAZY GOOD FOR NOTHINGS AFTER ALL. WASNT THERE A SCENE FROM TWO EPISODES AGO WHERE THE ROYAL FAMILY WAS GIVING AWAY FREE GIFTS TO ALL THE PEASANT CHILDREN IN ENCHANCIA. WHERE DID SHE GET THIS PRECONCEPTION FROM? ASPFSCEVRH WHAT IS GOING ON??!
Sidekick Clio - 3/10
Hildegarde acts like an abusive bitch to her friend Clio but instead of Clio leaving her and finding a new group of friends, she forgives Hildegarde after one apology. Oh and before you ask, Hildegarde doesnt retain her lesson from this in later episodes. I feel so sorry for Clio. Especially since she has a lot of fun potential as a side character.
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TNBC Shower thought #6: Oog-booge revooge
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If you've followed this blog long enough you probably noticed the distinct lack of a certain gambling boogieman on here despite him being a staple of the franchise. The in-canon explanation is scattered throughout the blog as to why Oogie still be very dead, but I just gotta be honest with you all: I don't dig giving Oogie Boogie 'depth'.
I especially don't dig giving him depth by way of him having a connection with any other (canon) characters. Why?
If we're being totally cynical here, Oogie exists in Nightmare souly to make Jack not look as bad because Jack is the real antagonist of the story, not Oogie.
Oogie is the villain, the one who likes enacting harm, Jack is the heroantagonist all in one, he doesn't mean any harm but all of what happens in TNBC is his fault.
Oogie only plays a part in Jack's Xmas specifically cuz of Jack's lack of oversight and carelessness; even without Jack's specific instructions, Santa and Sally being Oogie's victims are his fault, and it's why Jack has to be the one to save them in the end. Whether or not you think Jack learned his lesson or is a bad person and TNBC is 'bad actually'i s it's own deep dive, but personally I really like followup material that show Jack being his best self (Zero's Journey: peppy, monsterboy pumpkin king doing what he can) as opposed to his worst self (Kingdom Hearts/Oogies Revenge Jack: uber selfabsorbed manchild who never cares about others feelings, despite the movie implying he's learned to do better).
All of this is coming up for me because the newest comic book for Nightmare went into the writer's canon backstory and it delved into one the ideas I absolutely hate: Oogie and Jack were once friends.
Making Jack and Oogie friends in the past or even just amicable to each other is a REALLY big misstep on the part writers, because it makes Jack's murdering Oogie in the film so much worse.
Oogie Boogie's death was the one part of Nightmare that truly disturbed me as a child. Having Jack so passively and aggressively skin Oogie alive and do nothing but scowl as his insides fall out in agony already makes Jack look like a Christian Gray level non-comeuppance-sue but ESPECIALLY if you tack on the idea that Oogie and him were friends once!
Jack's not Optimus Prime or Superman who's all about enacting justice and fighting for what's right tm. He's Jack Skellington. He's still a scary monster Halloween king of nightmares you don't want to mess with. In Henry Selick's words on the 2008 commentary track for Nightmare, the citizens of Halloween Town aren't 'monsters' (bad people) and neither is Jack, really. He's scary because that's his job but he and his town never mean actual harm, it's just that what they ENDS UP doing by way of Jack also being a self absorbed manchild which makes him actually dangerous.
Oogie is the exception to that. I always felt even as a kid, that the implication for why he's locked up by the rest of Halloween Town was always pretty clear: Oogie does mean real harm. Oogie wants to hurt people. He has no delusions of grandeur like Jack, yes, but he wants you dead for his own pleasure and that's really not okay and not 'a good scare'.
"It's much more fun I must confess when life is on the line, not mine of course, but yours old boy, now that would be just fine!" - Oogie, kinning the guy who runs McKanney Manor
Even the demo version of the final fight makes clear Oogie's idea of 'fun' is torture:
"No Jack, messing with MY IDEA OF FUN!"
Jack coming to his own and actually doing something about Oogie should be a moment of "Jack really IS back! 8D! And he's actually finally doing something about the incelcryptobro in his basement that he knows everyone dead! Jack's being responsible! 8D 8D!" for the audience, not "wow. Jack is dirtbag who never faces consequences and murders people for problems he caused 8C. And the movie takes his side because Jack's 'cool' and Oogie just so happened to be causing harm. The movie gives Jack an excuse. 8C 8C"
I'm not saying the latter is what you end up taking away as a viewer. I'm saying that's not the vibe you want and it's why for, in Jack's story, which TNBC is, Oogie really should be just a big bully with no nuance of his own. Or at least, no nuance that means anything TO Jack.
Oogie Boogie is kind of basic. I personally love him for that even though I don't know exactly how to write him and I want to make TNBC stuff without him as a villain. But believe me- as a villain lover I totally get the need to try and make more out of our potato-sack daddy.
If you're rightfully mad that the one BIPOC-voiced character in the cast is the bland ebbul dude, that's beyond valid!!! (no- I don't think think the coding or casting was intentional, but the pro-segregation coding in Lion King also wasn't intentional...doesn't mean it isn't problematic).
If you simply want a more interesting villain-big-bad that exists to make the main hero look better, that's all fine and good too.
Me personally, I'm currently stumped on how to flesh out Oogie and not make him a complete, actual monster by Halloween Town's standards. I'm currently trying to think around this...but we'll have to wait and see...
My biggest issue is how, because he's fun while he kills people, some fans go the opposite route Oogie is made into a harmless hammy bafoon stripped of all his teeth and his real personality. I'm sorry to do this but Oogie is NOT in love with Sally. Oogie is not Sally's sassy best friend who's great at calling Jack out on his bad boyfriend-ness.
That's not Oogie Boogie. That's Angel Dust but that's not Oogie Boogie.
I like my Oogie being a bully. Not a puppy dog, not a tragic character, just an actual unbridled monster in the midst of this town of performance scarers.
But...That's just my take, not yours. If you love Oogie being perfect and flawless to counteract Jack's supposed 'perfectflawlessness', if you wanna see him as a real nuanced character because Oogie is definitely a fun one...right on. I'm not your mom.
But yeah, that's why Oogie doesn't appear too much in my comics except for in prequel stuff. Granted, I do want to do more with him but I'm stumped as for now so Oogie stays double dead.
If he does show up and makes friends, expect his friends to not be Jack and Sally because Sally's got better friends and no way would Oogie trust Jack after all Jack's put him through.
In other news, I'm an annoying boomer now about the comics))
#oogie boogie#nightmare before christmas#the nightmare before christmas#oogie boogie nightmare before christmas#tnbc analysis#halloween town#tim burton
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As to not flood @ronance4everbrainrot comment section I'll be posting some of my rambles here
Time line wise the duffer brother absolutely make no sense since it's supposed to be 6 months after the battle of Starcourt which would be December or January depending if you're counting the rest of July or not but it's spring break? So I'm fixing that and my mess of a comment from last night.
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• July: Robin spends her time with Steve mostly since she doesn't know if the kids like her enough (Erica and Dustin hang out with her though since they know her, and Max likes her but won't admit), this month is mainly Robin and Steve bonding some more and starting the healing process of their trauma, Dustin starts to speculate that Robin and Steve might like each other more than friends but both Steve and Robin are very against the accusation, Robin also starts to bond with the rest of the kids
• August: This is where Robin and Murray officially meet without the danger of being killed, the two bond over their conspiracy theories and love for languages, weekly movie nights turn into Murray and Robin hanging out and debating if Elvis is alive or if the recent Bigfoot sighting is real, we also have Nancy and Jonathan having a rockier relationship in the background (if Jonathan is going to movie night Nancy won't be there and vice versa), Erica brings (aka forces) Max to her and Robin's hang outs so Max and Robin start to bond
• September: Before the Byers leave Jonathan and Nancy break up (it was mutual between the two of them), Nancy leaves halfway through a movie that week and Robin decides to find out what happened *emotional talks in Nancy's bedroom*, Nancy would definitely say "I don't know why I'm even sad our relationship was already dead even before we officially called it off", Robin would 100% run her fingers through Nancy's hair to calm her down argue with the wall, Lucas joins Erica and Max when they go to Robin and he gets life advice from Robin "I spent so much of my time in school trying to fit in and being invisible that it took a flesh monster and Russians for me to realize that theirs nothing wrong with doing what you want to do" after that Lucas joins the basketball team, Robin and Nancy also hang out a little more (like 2 more times after the breakup), Robin talks to Murray over the phone since he's not around as much
• October: Max and Robin have a matching Halloween costume (they go as Jack and Wendy from The Shining, Nancy may or may not find Robin hot in her outfit but she thinks she's jealous that their costumes look so good), more Murray and Robin hanging out, Nancy and Robin have a cute moment when the party plays a horror movie and Nancy grabs Robins hand 👀, more bonding between Robin and the rest of the party
• November: THANKSGIVING WITH MURRAY (Robin's mom doesn't do Thanksgiving or really any holiday and just works if she can), Murray teaches Robin how to cook when she stays over for Thanksgiving, Steve finds out that Nancy thinks that's him and Robin are dating (angst time), Erica talks to Robin about her nightmares so Robin plans a sleepover between the two of them at the Sinclair house (Lucas joins since his nightmares haven't been better either), the Sinclair's absolutely love Robin and she gains another family
• December: Big angst, Steve constantly makes excuses to not hang out with Robin or drive her, Robin is hurt (both emotionally and physically because it's not smart to bike on snow and ice), Nancy finds Robin in the girls bathroom before school starts sniffing and running her bloody and shaking hands in warm water (homoerotic hand bandaging, because Robin ate shit on ice going to school), Robin tells Nancy about how distant Steve's been which Nancy things she caused saying she didn't know they were dating, Nancy also offers Robin a ride to her house and asks if she wants her to be her new ride, Max talks to Robin about if it's okay to like guys and girls (Robin cry's when Max comes out to her and teases her about her crush), Christmas is at the Wheelers + Murray is there, Robin's mom is shown more (gaslight and gate keep)
• January: Even more angst, the big fight between Steve and Robin (Steve either calls Robin a slur which he later regrets or says the typical guy when finding out a girl is a lesbian by saying if she tried a guy she's wouldn't be like this, he's an asshole but he gets a sort of redemption), Robin then gets kicked out by her mother a few days after the fight (her mother makes losing her friendship with Steve her fault and definitely brings up her dad, even more angst??) Robin calls out her mom which is how she got kicked out (metaphorically and physically?), she going to Murray's since he's the only one who's been a good parental figure (he definitely knows Robin is a lesbian, she probably came out to him during Thanksgiving), Max, Erica and Lucas search for Robin after she missed their hang out day (she's never missed one before), Max is tempted to beat the shit out of both Robin's mom and Steve until Dustin probably mentions how Robin and Murray are friends, the three go to Murray's and stay with Robin for the rest of the week (Robin tells them what happened and mentions her dad but doesn't elaborate)
• February: Robin comes back with Murray who bought an apartment for Robin to live in while he goes back and forth between his home and the apartment, Robin and Steve relationship is non existant and very strained, Max, Lucas and Erica are the Robin protection trio, Robin finds out that Steve has been following Nancy like a lost puppy so Nancy and Robin's relationship is also strained
• March: This is where Steve and Robin's friendship comes back, it's not what it was before but their on better terms, Nancy and Robin aren't talking though since Nancy thinks that whatever has happened between the two means that their back together and it hurts her thinking about it (she thinks she's jealous of Robin but it's actually Steve), Max and Erica tear into Steve (they threaten him) while Lucas does his best disappointed dad face
• April: Season 4 starts, mostly everything is canon here idk if we wanna change some things so I'll just leave it as it is normally
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Oh boy that took forever, little thought I though of was that Robin's dad is dead (Rip man 😞) I'm thinking car accident while Robin was at the wheel (idk if they had permits back then but something like that) which is why she doesn't have a license along with being poor
Comment and ideas are welcomed and have a nice day/night 🫡
#ronance#robin buckley#nancy wheeler#Murray adopting Robin#brought to you by baby goldfish and green red bull#you just know the fight is gonna be heartbreaking
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Halloween Movie Challenge
Every day in October, except the days I don't, I am watching a randomly chosen Halloween-themed horror movie for the first time. Or for the first twenty-four days of October bc my list runs out then.
The first two weeks...are below
TRICK OR TREAT
1986 / directed by Charles Martin Smith / written by Joel Soisson, Michael S. Murphey and Rhet Topham (and Glen Morgan & James Wong, uncredited)
A heavy metal-themed Nightmare on Elm Street clone (the villain even does the "hands reaching through the wall" thing, but with a speaker), with cameos by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne, the latter playing a Satanic Panic-spewing TV preacher. This one has a strange legacy on the whole: future X-Files scribe (and uncredited co-writer) Glen Morgan is featured in his only acting role, and the director went on to make Air Bud...and then define his career around animal movies. Fair enough! This one's pretty fun, with a long first act of high school bullying highlighted with a energetic chase sequence, though not especially Halloween-y, given its name (though the version I watched was titled Ragman?)
🎃🎃🎃.5/5
TALES OF HALLOWEEN
2015 / directed by [a lot of people] / written by [a lot of people]
The top Letterboxd review calls this "Trick 'R Treat if it was designed by a committee at a horror convention" and that just about sums it up. It has the requisite horror cameos - a litany of 80s final girls are joined by Joe Dante and John Landis, and John Landis is convincing in the role of a terrible person whose son is a monster for some reason. This one has way too many segments, and they're unsurprisingly same-y. Two stories have a twist where a child-sized killer turns out to be a demon, two of them feature gangs of evil kids, and none of them are very fun, though they feature so many of the winking in-jokes filmmakers mistake for fun. This is the type of movie where a candy will have the word "Carpenter" on it, written in the Halloween titles font, because hey. Remember John Carpenter? Remember? Remember John Carpenter? The oddest part is that this movie's format is very close to 2015's better A Christmas Horror Story, but they're totally unrelated?
🎃🎃/5
HELL HOUSE LLC
2015 / written & directed by Stephen Cognetti
Found footage movie that makes decent use of its rundown-Halloween-haunt setting & has some good scares with evil clown dolls, but is pretty routine, and does that mediocre found footage thing where it can't let any of the background scares breathe without a crash zoom and a scare chord.
🎃🎃🎃/5
MAY
2002 / written & directed by Lucky McKee
To call May a slasher movie doesn't really represent it. As a portrait of a loner among urban alienation, it's of a kind with Taxi Driver and the first act of Beau is Afraid, with unbearably real performances by Angela Bettis and Jeremy Sisto. May is psychological and restrained, striving for a queasy discomfort before it escalates into full-on bloodshed. This is the least Halloween-y film so far, but the final act is on Halloween night, and culminates in a shot that's haunting and lyrical in equal measure.
🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃/5
HACK-O-LANTERN
1988 / directed by Jag Mundhra / written by Dave Eisenstark & Carla Robinson
Direct-to-video horror classic featuring a deeply apathetic son of the Devil and a musical number featuring deaths-by-magic-guitar. Alternatively tediously padded and gloriously deranged, but then again, that's direct-to-video horror babyyyyyyy. Jag Mundhra had a career directing direct-to-video sleaze in the US, but made prestige movies in India?
🎃🎃🎃/5
DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW
1981 / directed by Frank De Felitta / story by J.D. Feigelson & Butler Handcock, teleplay by Feigelson
A TV movie, but you'd only know it from its 4:3 ratio & commercial break fades-to-black. Dark Night of the Scarecrow is a creepy gem, well-directed by de Felitta - a novelist with a sideline directing TV movies - with an eye towards the details of small town life. The lack of gore is made up with by stark, elemental horror imagery, and the horrors of humanity: a mob murders a developmentally disabled man for a crime he didn't commit, and gets off the hook for it - gets cheered, in fact, by the townsfolk. But soon a mysterious scarecrow is appearing in the fields, and the killers start to die...not a killer scarecrow movie, but something subtler, chillier, the horror of barns and grain silos and farmer's fields.
🎃🎃🎃🎃/5
HAUNT
2019 / written & directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
Extreme haunted houses are stupid.
While some use it as a mere William Castle-ian conceit, others take it seriously. Who could've guessed that if you replace themed scares and actors with people who will literally, actually hurt you, you'd still be scared? Only the Einsteins who act flabbergasted when the actors they hired with the pitch "you can hurt people and they signed something that said they can't sue you" turn out to disregard safe words. In Haunt, an extreme haunted house is a front for a murder-cult, which is more respectable than it being some guy doing the Evermore Park of frights. Haunt is a very pedestrian slasher, but a sincere one, and a modern one (the victims check the creepy house's Yelp reviews), which I'll take over a winking 80s homage any day.
🎃🎃🎃/5
THE MIDNIGHT HOUR
1985 / directed by Jack Bender / written by Bill Bleich
Delightful little made-for-TV number, heavily inspired by Thriller. In 1985, this was trashed for its cliches, but now it's the cliches that make it so endearing. This one has its own musical number, a starring turn for LeVar Burton, some quality zombie effects and a lighthearted air, and excellent Halloween-y vibes to it, of course, courtesy of future Lost director Jack Bender. It also has a weirdly overqualified soundtrack; I really didn't expect to hear The Smiths repeatedly in a made-for-TV Halloween movie, but here we are.
🎃🎃🎃🎃/5
NIGHT OF THE DEMONS
1988 / directed by Kevin S. Tenney / written by Joe Augustyn
Night of the Demons has a gnarly final act, but spends way too much time getting there, and too much of that time is spent with interchangeable assholes bumbling about.
🎃🎃.5/5
THE CHILD
1977 / directed by Robert Voskanian / written by Ralph Lucas
A classical Weird 70s Horror Movie, which means a relatively simple plot told in the most inscrutable way possible, a lot of stark tight close-ups and quick cuts, and a preoccupation with psychics. The last act is a bit of a conventional zombie runaround, but everything before that is chilly 70s gold. By far the least Halloween-y film here, but there's an amazing moment with a Jack-O-Lantern.
🎃🎃🎃.5/5
SCARY MOVIE
1991 / directed by Daniel Erickson / written by Daniel Erickson, David Lane Smith, and Mark Voges
No, not that one; this one is a regional horror flick from Texas, from 1991, and starring John Hawkes as a gormless nerd touring a haunted house - the type so anxious to avoid a snake pit he ends up falling into a snake pit, which, relatable. The wonderful aesthetics of a local haunted house dominate this film, directed with sly attention to detail by Erickson, which follows Hawkes' character as an escaped madman lurks in the haunted house. Or does he? A surreal psychological story more than a slasher, it takes a while to get somewhere, but that a while is full of local atmosphere (similar to Tobe Hooper's classic The Funhouse).
🎃🎃🎃🎃/5
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agere headcanons for slashers!!
NOTE: there will be no violent / gorey images in this post! i’m autistic with a special interest in slasher films, and i’m mainly making this for myself!
GHOSTFACE.
he’s both a little and a caregiver!
regresses from 7-10!
likes watching halloween movies! his favorite is monster house.
loves ghost nicknames! casper is his favorite!
as a cg, he talks a bit more, but mainly waits for you to initiate!
he calls you a LOT!! of nicknames. his favorite is little ghost, but he uses whatever you want, too!
LOVES watching movies with you, even if they’re not particularly scary. if they are, he’ll warn you and comfort you if you get scared.
BUBBA SAWYER / LEATHERFACE.
mostly a little!
he regresses from 4-6, and is generally very excitable!
he LOVES pigs and cows, and has cute cow ears!
BIG fan of stuffies. if it’s got fabric on it, he owns it! his favorite is this plushie.
does a lot of coloring books and coloring in general!
is a little embarrased about regressing, but when he does do it, really enjoys it.
LOVES tea parties!! will set one up with all his stuffies! sometimes even has real food with it, too :D
AMANDA YOUNG.
she’s a caregiver!
acts more like a cool older sister than a mommy, but is always there for you!
super protective of you! nobody’s mean to you without hearing some very strong words from her.
despite the everything about her, she’s really affectionate with you!
100% has gotten a pig themed paci for you before.
she really likes caring for you! it reassures her that she can still be good even after everything that’s happened to her :(
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TNBC and Long Live the Pumpkin Queen talk
(WARNING: This contains some unpopular opinions regarding The Nightmare Before Christmas and Long Live the Pumpkin and the criticisms it received. These are just my opinions, so I don't mean to offend anyone, and you are free to disagree. This also contains spoilers for the book.)
Lately, I've been seeing a lot of criticisms and hate regarding 'Long Live the Pumpkin Queen' by Shea Ernshaw. Some of the Biggest criticisms I've seen is that how its inconsistent, how it messed up the characters, and doesn't fit what is considered canon.
And I can see where these criticisms are coming from. As much as I loved the book, there were some things about it that I disagreed with, such as Sally's origins and how some of the characters were presented.
That being said, I don't think it deserves the hate its getting and I don't think it really ruined anything.
The Nightmare Before Christmas is my favorite movie and I love the franchise. But I can admit it was not a perfect film. And I feel with some of these criticisms, people are overlooking the flaws of the film. (Not everyone, but I feel there are some that are). As great as it was, the movie wasn't very organized, and the characters had their flaws. Oogie Boogie, as cool as he was, did rather little to move the plot other than holding Santa and Sally hostage and serve as a way to redeem Jack, who planned to take over Christmas without Santa's permission, had Santa kidnapped in the first place, and nearly ruined the holiday with his Halloween presents. Jack, while good-intentioned, did a lot more damage to the world than Oogie did in his screen time.
And honestly, I think there are some things the book actually manages to explain regarding some things in the movie, especially with Sally. There is a scene where Sally gets a vision of Jack's Christmas going to end badly, but the film never really explains what that was all about. We just get that scene and nothing else, no other visions or anything that explains what that was about or how Sally saw that. So at least with the book, it provides a possible idea on how Sally could do that.
One criticism I saw talked about how it ruined Sally character as a girl who escaped an abusive household and turned her into a princess. But I disagree. I'd argue that Sally is still that girl who escaped, but with a lot of abusive victims, the scars are still there and her journey in the book is about her overcoming those scars the best she can. She escapes Dr. Finklestein, but the scars are still there, and she fears she doesn't deserve anything better than that and fears that her title as Pumpkin Queen will be similar to her life with the doctor, especially since soon after marrying Jack, so many responsibilities are thrusted upon her, and she doesn't feel ready, and I think a lot of people can understand being put in a situation we're not prepared for and just want to run away and avoid it.
Plus, there have been manga spinoffs and videogames and I've never seen those get as much hate as this book does, even if those didn't go with everything from the movie, and I don't really see those being much different from the book. At least, I don't see it. For example, In Oogie's Revenge, we never get a real explanation on how Oogie was brought back, how he was able to switch Dr. Finklestein's brain, and control a bunch of monsters.
Overall, I can see where the criticisms are coming from and I can agree with some of them, but I don't think it deserves all the hate it gets.
As mentioned before, these are my opinions and I don't mean to offend anyone, but this is just how I see the situation.
#The Nightmare Before Christmas#Personal Opinion#TNBC#Nightmare Before Christmas#Long Live the Pumpkin Queen#Shea Ernshaw#rambling#unpopular opinion
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I re-watched John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
The two lead actors in this movie are pretty awful people in real life. I just thought I should bring that up somewhere in this review.
John Carpenter. Master of the horror film. Now considered one of the "Great" filmmakers for his contributions to the genre, to soundtracks and to film in general. Carpenter is more appreciated and influential now than in his own time, but he's always had a solid fan base. He started in the 1970's with great films like "Assault On Precinct 13" and "Halloween". Carried on into the 1980's with his best work like, "Escape From New York" "The Thing" "They Live" "Big Trouble In Little China" "Starman" and more. The man is a legend.
In the 1990's and early 2000's Carpenter's work became less impressive. It felt less enthusiastic, and almost as if the seasoned director had given up a bit. Movies like "Escape From LA" and "In The Mouth Of Madness" had something of his old talent, but fell flat in a lot of areas. Others like "Village Of The Damned" and "Ghosts Of Mars" are almost unwatchable. And of course, the less said about "Memoirs Of An Invisible Man" the better.
"Vampires" is another 90's film from Carpenter. Some say it's proof that the decade was better for the director than he gets credit for. Some say it's not worth your time and is proof to the contrary.
This movie does have something of the old 1980's Carpenter, but not enough. I'd throw it in with "Escape From LA" and "In The Mouth Of Madness", as a film that's heavily flawed. It has an unfinished feel, a less than top-quality vibe.
Problem #1.
The character of Jack Crow (James Woods) should be a classic Carpenter leading man. Carpenter likes to almost parody the macho badass, and Crow is a true parody of machismo. But, Crow and his entire Crew come off as sleazy assholes more than badass vampire killers. Despite trying to make them regular Working-Joe types, they come off as unlikeable misogynistic goons.
Problem #2
Carpenter's direction and shots fall short in a lot of areas. His wides no longer feel big in scope and his daytime shots are sub-par. "Vampires" often looks cheap and lazy, which isn't in step with Carpenter's older work. This often feels like a straight to video film without enough of the director's personality.
Problem #3
The beginning is kind of cool and creepy with the vampires jumping out like rats from within the crevices of an old abandoned house. I liked the initial version of these classic monsters. But, from that point forward, we never really see a "nest" again, and the main big bad "Master Vampire" comes off as more of a cringey goth douchebag, than a threatening monster. I'd have loved if they found a huge nest and had to infiltrate it. Would have gave them something to do rather than just be annoying for half the movie.
Problem #4
A very basic problem. The writing isn't solid. The framework is there, but it's not 100%. Yes, this is based on a novel, but we judge movies here based on there own merit, not on their source material, and the writing here, even if it's following the novel, does not hold up.
As I said, there is some good here. Carpenter doesn't skimp on the blood and gore. I like the idea of Bloodsuckers living in "nests" scattered around the desert. I like the idea of a team of Vampire hunters and, overall, I like the framework that is set up in the film. But with lackluster execution and no characters I can get on board with, this is a less than stellar addition to Carpenter's body of work.
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Bimonthly Media Roundup
Late again as October is a very busy month and I've been doing training at work making me busier than usual, plus had to work on a Monster themed power-point for our PowerPoint Halloween party. Also I got COVID again so that was fun.
- Spirited Away (Movie) - Spur of the moment decision that my sister and I made to go see this in the theater as a birthday outing for me. For one of my favorite movies of all time it's really been awhile since I've seen it, and while I obviously have nostalgia goggles and anime bias I do really think it deserves all the acclaim it gets. Incredibly creative world, fantastical atmosphere that just lets you experience it without feeling the need to over-explain and clarify every little thing, phenomenal music, charming characters and visuals, and a constantly engaging plot, the peak of what movies can be. My only real nitpick is that Zeniba and Yubaba really should be wearing different clothes from each other, the twins have different personalities and the dress designs should have reflected that. Anyway 11/10 if you haven't seen it you should do so immediately.
- Last Week Tonight (TV) - Big Mood.
- Spy X Family (Anime) - Yup.
- Heaven Official's Blessing (Anime) - TGCF is finally back! Not much to say so far as they are taking their time with the pacing (which is fine by me as I was worried they would rush through), but I'm happy to see more of the Windmaster and I love all the different and fun monster designs in Ghost City, I would hang out there for sure.
- Dr Stone (Anime) - Dr Stone is back as well, and I'm having fun with the current arc. Moz is a fun addition who I'm sure will eventually become a good guy as all defeated villains in this show do - his brand of "I don't give a shit about my evil societies rules and just want to fight strong people for sport actually" is always a welcome character type. Also I like his design. I do want to learn more about the female warrior as well as while I love Kohaku and new addition Amaryllis, this series really could use some more central female characters.
- The Greatest Estate Developer (Webnovel) - Nothing new to say but this art is cute.
- Ace Attorney Vs Professor Layton (Video Game) - Thought I would finish this before this came out but I've been a bit too busy to have it up most days, so I still have a little more to go. I'm honestly enjoying it more than I thought I would, I was kind of just going through it out of obligation to say I've experienced the entire Ace attorney series but the plot, characters, aesthetic, and humor have been pretty good actually. I still have a bit to go so the finale will cement my overall feelings but I'm certainly enjoying it more than the Investigations games at least.
- One Piece (Anime) - Due to earlier exposure to the early manga arcs, I always knew that I would one day become obsessed with this series, and pulling my sister down into this rabbit hole with me was the motivation I needed to make good on that. The series has it's issues obviously - the women's bodies are notoriously ridiculous and vary so little in comparison to the wide variety of male body types, the pacing can be a bit annoying at times with frequent flashbacks and drawn out fights, and while ridiculousness is it's creed the amount of damage these characters can just walk off is immersion-breakingly absurd. Unfortunately the good points of the series really do drown out the flaws at this point at least - The world is incredibly creative and a joy to explore, the central characters (and especially the protagonist) are all very charming with fun dynamics between them, the individual arcs are really engaging with earned emotional highs and memorable visuals, the humor is consistently on point, and above all it wildly succeeds in it's premise of being an escapist fantasy in which a group of lovable friends go on fantastical adventures exploring the wonders of a fantastical world. Here's to the many many more episodes to go.
- Genshin Impact (Video Game) - Finally got to Inazuma which is decent so far, the art and story is consistently good in this game but my familiarity with Japanese culture and JRPGs with similar settings have me a little more excited about getting past this to Sumeru, which seems really neat from a landscape and story perspective. Then again Inazuma has a lot of cool looking characters I have yet to meet so we'll see as we go. Yan Fei is my best girl with Lisa being a consistent support, with Barbara, Dendro Traveler, Candace, and a recently acquired Rosaria being switched around as my other team members.
Listening To: Bones by MSMR, In My Head by Mike Shinoda, Ivy by Taylor Swift, Give Us A Little Love by Fallulah, Make Up Your Mind by Florence + The Machine, Roll With The Punches and Most People by Dawes, IDOL by YOASOBI, Atlantis by Seafret, Viva la Vida by Reinaeiry, Arcade by Duncan Laurence, Doin' Time by Lana Del Rey.
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Halloween🎃👻🕯️
...Though we don't celebrate Halloween (October 31st, the eve of the All Saints' Day), I decided to come up with a special post on it now. It's like I will start with a digital celebration here and maybe, we'll throw a pleasantly spooky, real Halloween party next year:)
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...Have you seen this movie yet? It's fun and full of Halloween spirit. So I will watch it again:)
"Magic is really very simple, all you've got to do is want something and then let yourself have it." - Aggie Cromwell, "Halloweentown", 1998
...image is via allingforleavesandpumpkins
...image is from fallowingautumn-blog
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpots, Victorian novelist, playwright, poet
...image is from virtuallyinsane-autumn.tumblr.com
...HALLOWEENish atmosphere in PAINTINGS
“There’s a little witch in all of us.” - Aunt Jet Owens, a minor character in "Practical magic"
I don’t know what this crazy picture is:)), but I do really like it! This cool painting is by Philip Grözinger (German, b. 1972)
"Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds ... true love?" - Dracula, 1992
Driftwood by Adam Oehlers …via witchyteacups
"Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!" - Bram Stoker, "Dracula"
...a painting by Adam Burke @nightjarillustration, an artist based in Portland, Oregon.
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” - Stephen King
The Haunted Park by Richard Doyle (English, 1824–1883) .via oldpaintings
📚11 atmospheric books to read during Halloween (not my personal choice, just came across this list somewhere. so let's try it out together:)
The Haunting of Abney Heights: gothic mystery for Halloween by Cat Thomas
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Dark stories and poems by Edgar Allen Poe
Drakula by Bram Stooker
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
The Woman in Black and other Ghost stories by Susan Hill
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell
House of Shadows by Mair Unsworth
Blood Lite by Kevin J. Anderson
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
📚...and these are chosen by me:) Havent' read any one of these books yet, but I was attracted by the covers. So now it's my Halloween reading wishlist:
"Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue." - Ichabod Crane, a fictional character in "Sleepy hollow."
...The Ghosts Haunting the Woods by LorelaiArtsiePartsie
I usually prefer horror comedy films and animation to real horror movies. They should be scary yet not containing anything disgusting, and of course, there must be a happy ending...
...so, my Halloween Movies Must Watch List looks like this :)
The Little Vampire (anim.)
Monster House (anim.)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Ghostbusters starring Bill Murrey (1984)
The Haunted Mansion starring Eddie Murphy (2003)
Disney’s Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Vampire in Brooklyn starring Eddie Murphy (1995)
A Haunted House (2013)
Hubie Halloween starring Adam Sandler (2020)
The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)
The School For Good And Evil (2022)
...and that's not all yet! How can I wrap up the post without sharing this energizing song from my favourite Gravity Falls series?! ;)
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...not yet! Now, even more shivers down your spine!
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Now, Happy, Spooky, Scary, Eerie Halloween! Have fun! 🎃👻🕯️
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Horror Movies I watched: September 2023
Final bunch until I start my real big annual marathon! Here we go!
Night of the Demon (1957) So this is where the plots we've seen popularized in ones the Wicker Man and Drag Me to Hell came from. Personally, I prefer those, but probably because they were made in a time audiences could handle the leading man losing. Most of this movie is this smug know-it-all jackass mocking people for their religious beliefs pretty much. I'll admit, his final gambit to switch the curse back onto the main villain was a maneuver that would make Columbo proud. Though I still don't know what Karswell's whole plan outside of his demon hitman was.
Speaking of which, as iconic as that design is, it hasn't aged too well. The far away shot is the stiffest puppet ever seen, and even the closeup shot is...honestly, adorable. The most effective shot of it is near the end when it's tearing apart it's last victim. The claws not withstanding, it's head is in darkness with it's eyes glowing and you actually see the tearing even from a distance.
Though that was probably the key to it being one of the more effective horror films of the decade. Most times, the monster has to die or reveal to be secretly good. This is a demon, with no good bone in it's body, and it "gets away". Sure, the only real punishment it could've gotten is being chased away by a priest or an angel or such, but even that doesn't happen here. The devil is real. Demons are real. We might've escaped them this time. But by our own wit, not God's. If He is even real.
Side note, if I knew there was a Halloween party in this, I would've waited. Eh, close enough.
Christine (1983) It's surreal watching this after Halloween Ends. Sure, I think I've seen reviews saying that movie felt more like a remake of this movie plotwise. But now I see what they mean. Granted, the themes were handled with a bit more nuance in that film. I don't know; it's weird seeing a sequel to John Carpenter's most famous movie is used as a "backdoor remake" for one of his lesser known ones. It's at least a more interesting idea to handle a Halloween movie then a lot of the previous ones.
As for this movie; I never liked the 1950s. Even before and without knowing the awful political, racist, sexist shite that happened during it, I thought the aesthetics associated with it (cars, fashion, music, attitude, etc.) were the ugliest of any decade in the 20th century. Good ole days, my ass! The amount of similarities and homages to it in the 1980s were strikes against that decade too for me, in a weird guilt-by-association way. So it's oddly comforting that during a time where people, all the way up to the white house, were thinking "boy, don't you wish we could go back to such a time?", Both Carpenter and Stephen King made works that were responses in the fashion of "No! What are you, crazy?!"
But yeah, this does feel to me one of Carpenter's lesser efforts, not surprising since he practically saw it as a work for hire. It's a pretty typical King story, given a Carpenter coat of paint. I wonder if King gave him shit for being the second director of one of his adaptations that didn't redeem it's main character at the end. You wouldn't think the directors of book adaptations would make them more cynical then the produced-for-less-people source material.
Relic (2020) This film needs to be studied. by film scholars and then by students in film schools. It established a threat, a horror, that is unique to this movie, but you can follow what it's supposed to symbolize, and get a good handle on what it's doing in-universe to the grandmother. All without a single line of dialogue of exposition!
I really am so tired of films expecting to explain every weird thing in it, that I'm starting to love it whenever one just trusts you enough to get it and not raise arms about the small details that don't actually make or break a story. This is why the past few years have been seen as a golden age of the genre. It trusts us.
Another sidebar. Houses that turn into a magical maze that keeps you trapped might be one of my new fascinations. Simple, but super effective. I've seen it before in Grave Encounters, I heard it's in House of Leaves, which is on my reading list. It doesn't scare me, but I find oddly captivating. Got to try and figure out why.
Crawl (2019) If I covered Alligator, I'm going to have to cover this one. Though there's not much to say. A half hour of building mystery and tension, then once the gators literally explode onto screen, it's about surviving them and surviving them only and then credits. Not sure those many regular gators would have that strong a hankering for human flesh but whatever. Credit where credit's due, this movie made me jump the most out of any in recent memory. So it pretty much succeeded in it's main mission. Also, happy the dog made it, but it must've been miserable being wet for like 90% of the shoot.
Swallow (2019) Well this is new; body horror being the lesser of two evils. Hell of a pro choice message; "I'd literally feel safer putting anything else in my body". Many uncomfortable moments throughout, not all of them involving what she put in her mouth (though that freaking push pin!). Honestly, it's great to see a movie commits to that even the most egregious of supposed attention-seeking self harm is a symptom of a much larger problem. And that a film can be feminist and violent while actually looking pretty feminine. Though you probably all know that. We've all seen Barbie at this point.
I'm also watching Hot Fuzz. I'm not going to count it but I am watching Shaun of the Dead next month so I might mention it there.
Next month is the big one. Wish me luck and stay safe!
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GOD DOES ALL THE WORK (some musings on ur-text Silence of the Lambs, Mindhunter, Zodiac, Apocalypse Now, society as spirit world, horror, family, narcissism and God)
Is Kurtz the boogeyman, or Marlow?
“Doctor Lecter . . . Doctor Lecter . . .”
“The horror . . . The horror . . .”
"Did anyone know the real Ted?"
The Real Ted Bundy
This is what it is like to have such a close encounter with narcissism....
"We want to be able to say we can identify these dangerous people. The really scary thing is you can't identify them. People don't realize that there are potential killers among them. How could anyone live in a society where people they liked, loved, lived with, worked with, and admired could the next day turn out to be the most demonic people imaginable?" -Ted Bundy
How
In the oubliette the pictures (polaroids?) of James Gumb posing with strippers (or previous victims?)
I mean previous or other but then that even sounds wrong perhaps he hadn’t started killing people yet
(Who took those pictures? Benjamin Raspail?)
And then
At the end the bug expert who is not a PhD gets his picture taken with Starling’s friend
(men without women always leads to trouble)
“Don’t you leave me here you fuckinh bitch the guys fuckinh crazy”
The scene with the dog
The astral plane
I talked about this before how someone told me that in every movie when you see a dog in the scene it is symbolic of the astral plane or the realm of desire, the desire of the subject
The dog is the symbol of desire
The prisoner seeks to escape
The killer wants to transform into his “authentic” self
“Mind the drawings please”
Art is part of his escape plan
He is a conductor with a baton beating the cop to death
He dons human skin
Fresh bloody and ripe
He assumes human form
He appears to be a victim
Conflating murderer and victim as Charles Manson
He is scientist, artist, and he works for law enforcement... he discusses religion ... theology... he sits at the nexus point of all differentiated social systems and yet is inaccessible
He remains outside all these systems
He is distinctly human at the same time as he is a monster
The unity of the paradox
Human/monster
“It’s Jim Pembry now talk to him!”
The social niceties
“You look real good.”
Those little white lies we tell to save people’s feelings
A parody of a conversation
Lecter is not Pembry
Nor does he have any feelings or care for the other person talking to him
The museum... the realm of science ... dinosaurs... Cy Twombly… the trophies of science and art …
“Elk River West Virginia” (smiling as he says this like can you believe I’m way out here in Elk River?)
Class... “local” vs “town”
one generation from “poor white trash”
Get the local cops out of the room so the big city sophisticates can take over
(Side note: she says “Bill” like you would say the name of a child who has done something terrible... almost with love she says it... the organist looks at her, shocked at how she says it, the dead girl is almost erased in this moment, as if the serial killer Buffalo Bill has added her to his collection of “spirit wives”)
Lecter as the ultimate sophisticate
Lecter is high class
Lecter as scientist but outside science = “a monster” = “the boogeyman” (reference John Carpenter’s Halloween)
Lecter as mad scientist
Lecter as re-enchantment of a world objectified and disenchanted by science
He wears a mask of human skin like Leatherface
But bloody fresh and ripe
He wears the face of a police officer, an authority figure
He inverts authority/deviance
(Transsexualism)
Bureaucrats and their “tedious sticky fumblings” with the human mystery
Lecter is a skilled psychiatrist it seems
But Clarice does not seem to need any mental help
She just wants help with the case
She has all the answers for Lecter about her own childhood trauma which has turned her into a hero rather than a villain
The FBI and Clarice are presented as in perfect mental health
The exchange about how Jack Crawford treated her?
“Point taken”
The serial killer as inverted poet
Seeks to kill his muse
One can see this play out in the program of the “serial killer” and his search for identity. Of all people the ‘statistical person’ as Mark Seltzer calls serial killers is the most desperate to find an identity. The serial killer so desperate to communicate with society his “true face” that he must wear a mask of human skin and leave cryptic letters for the police.
Buffalo Bill wants to become something... anything
so desperate to communicate with society
the disappearance of the subject
hannibal as the psychiatrist who possesses the secret knowledge of human identity
the criminal as profiler
the profiler as criminal
profilicity
the profile of the serial killer
the online profile of a person
"Best thing for him really. His therapy was going nowhere."
"an experiment... a fledgling killer's first effort at transformation"
change
The most disturbing thing about Ted Bundy is actually his inauthenticity.
Perhaps he is a relic of the role based way of thinking. He fits whatever role he is assigned. Law student. Boyfriend. Monster.
The Serial Killer in search of identity.... Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs... the Zodiac... Jack the Ripper as the ultimate serial killer because he remains faceless...
"I suppose Billy has tried to be a lot of things."
Tie this together with terrorism (the abject hero and the Bitter Carnival, the charismatic fool or clown, Jim Morrison and Charles Manson, pied pipers)
Violence becomes a source of identity
Profilicity
The idea that identity is defined by clicks, likes or other "social validation feedback loops" (Moeller et al)
The Zodiac Killer said that his victims would serve him as slaves in the afterlife.... if one looks at this from the standpoint of the identity in society of the Zodiac then this is a metaphorically true statement... on the level of meaning, the victims add to the social identity of the Zodiac.... (see also Kemper’s “spirit wives”)
I just scared myself with this.... scary
The world and its psychic systems
The world remains enchanted despite the wishful thinking of bureaucrats and sociologists.
(See, the pie-fight scene in the original Dawn of the Dead)
This is not good enough
Pockets of resistance
The intelligentsia mopping up
Witches teat
Spectral evidence
The observer is invisible to itself
Is Kurtz the boogeyman, or Marlow?
“Doctor Lecter . . . Doctor Lecter . . .”
“The horror . . . The horror . . .”
Hell/Hannibal
Hannibal Season 3 Episode 10
Dante as urban planner
(“In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood, having lost the straight path.”)
(Danny Casolaro expresses the symmetry between serial killing and conspiracy theory)
I will go over some territory previously covered we all know that
This is my epic work
Evil against evil (the ancient Egyptians knew this trick so well!)
Evil is one of the ways we re-enchant the world
Children know this about the boogeyman, that he is
Real, and that adults cannot save us from this power
Hannibal (the TV show!) as collapse of differentiation
(a prelude to terror)
Enchantment of the world
Blake’s red dragon is real
The dragon made flesh
John Carpenter’s Halloween
“It was the boogeyman.”
THE ACID OF MY MOTHER
I had a dream about my family of origin last night
Stuck in a hotel
I had the power to teleport short distances
Each time I would teleport away but then eventually they would find me again
I would teleport up into the room overhead and sometimes walk around the hallways, auditoriums, vestibules and then see or hear them again, my mother mostly, walking around the next corner, coming towards me
My poetry journal
Notes jotted down from my soul
As it progresses down the dusty road towards death
At the exact same rate
As all you kings and stuffed shirts
I used to see him as supremely successful
My friend at Yale
But now I see he is trapped in the ivory tower
Welcome to nowhere
The academic fantasy land
Mindhunter the intermingling of academic and the political / legal world of law enforcement
The serial killers live a rich fantasy life
We all live rich fantasy lives, they just usually don’t involve murder
A homicidal dreaming
More people died on the expressway in six months than this asshole killed in three years
Zodiac
It used to be cutting edge, avant-garde
The communication of serial killers
Dropping letters in the post box to the police
Dropping bodies in the old abandoned rock quarry
Dead letters
Letter bombs
A Molotov cocktail on the cover of the New York Review of Books
A pistol hidden inside a book
Dynamite carved into a nook within these pages
No need to burn the libraries anymore
Artaud’s dream of society without text has finally come true
That feeling of hearing everything in something
But being unable to capture it
I am going to reinvent myself as a Christian poet
God is going to reinvent me as a Christian poet
My son’s sixth birthday today
He’s having some trouble at school but we are pushing the ‘big boy’ narrative
A teacher left him outside a locked door and that caused him some trauma
I grab my spear from the corner stand and put on my armor
The post-punk utopia
The dream of the off-world colonies
My daughter taking a coding class
She’s getting ready with masked zoom call in the background
Like C. S. Lewis says
Never, never pin your faith to a human being
Or to paraphrase Robert Graves, its best
To leave the task of knowing oneself
To a wife or mistress
I am still writing this in reverse mostly
So the top stanzas are the most recently written
“The beginning is the end and the end is the beginning”
I was thinking about Patrick the other day
He was so nice to let me stay at their place
The Rebel Alliance (the entire Hoth battle scene mapped out using action figures and battle playsets on a giant piece of plywood in their living room, which was a long concrete space, a disused commercial space)
He was so funny
Patrick
Such a funny guy
But a fighter covered in crudely drawn ink tattoos of blue demons bursting out of his chest and he told me those were all ‘mistakes of his youth’ the tattoos and they told me one time at the Knitting Factory if anyone started fighting just let Patrick and Marcus handle it because they know how to fight
Patrick, Jenn and her boyfriend (I forget your name now sorry buddy) took me in and I was nobody to them
I was just an elite asshole in my own mind
We were just kids
Driving to school in the morning
Frantic with my hand on the tape rewind
Playing the same song over and over again
Telegram Sam
Love Kills
or Guess I’m Falling In Love
“The world that we used to know / people tell me it don’t turn no more” – Steely Dan
Only I never listened to them in high school
Now
I miss FM radio
Driving in the car with nowhere to go
Nothing to do
Late at night on the road, Mike couldn’t see and I always thought he was going to collide
Much later he turned into a flying monkey
I see the horizon of meaning expanding always!
Suddenly without fear I confront the world.
I am going to write poetry again.
Just write your academic ideas as a poem
Include footnotes and citations
But intermingled with the poet’s haberdashery
The 1978
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Donald Sutherland wears that same sweater as he did in Animal House
Half naked
The Devil is in the kitchen
1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Peep shows and carnival barkers
Do the pod people have sex?
He always struck me as a less sincere version of his cousin and ready to jump on whatever bandwagon without any attachment if the money—
Memoir ideas to write all those
Just throw it all together in a great big batch and put butter on it
You can do this too with the television on
Your favorite old movies playing in the background
As your life unspools before your eyes
This is it!
This is freedom!
You can talk about anything!
(A low rent Howard Hughes)
Your narcissist father clinging to his self-respect
Your sister joins a cult (and marries a Canadian!)
Your mother’s weak heart
The horrors of modern society
“Doctor Lecter . . . Doctor Lecter . . .”
“The horror . . . The horror . . .”
They keep re-telling the same story over and over
Which some would call insane but Niklas Luhmann calls “autopoiesis”
Bakhtin calls it genre memory
Just write all your poems with the autocorrect and trust that God will put all the social algorithms to the right
I can remember those few years that everything was the secret hidden HBO
Escape from New York
Apocalypse Now
Repo Man
(Bitter Carnival)
This one will be epic (I’m telling you even though I almost don’t believe it myself! But I am ready!)
It does include a sword
A family heirloom
The tip broken off in the skull of a Yankee(!)
Please forgive me Lord
When I was a kid it was all movies and now it’s memes
Fuck that but oh well
I did not get into film school(s) and looking back it is no mystery
I had not even barely lived at that time so I had little to say
Still it hurt
My daughter thought that Grease was a “weird movie” but she only watched a few minutes of it
I was suddenly surprised at all the drinking and cigarette smoking
Disgusting really but back then they thought it was “cool”
So dated it feels like to me now
Watching the movie with my daughter she lives in a world of memes
God carried me through this far and honestly if I was still drinking I don’t think I would make it
You get to a certain stage and realize that free will is overrated
God does all the work
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Favorite Childhood Movies
Ever since I was a kid, I always loved horror movies. Well, technically I was terrified of them, but for some reason I continued to watch them until I grew into the growing fanatic that I am now. Movies like the 1986 Troll will forever be stuck in my head, even if it looks silly now. I lay awake at night scared Chucky would pop out and stab me. I was glad I lived somewhere tropical, far away from cornfields I swore Jeepers Creepers haunted. Didn’t matter what cornfield. He was in all of them. But there are three movies that I love to go back to and watch. I love them because of how nostalgic they are, sure, but they hold up so well all these years later.
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
I can make an entire thread alone on my favorite Scooby Doo episodes and movies, but Zombie Island is my top one.
While Scooby Doo has always taught us that the true monsters are people in disguise (usually political figures or other people in power), the gang gets tired not actually catching real monsters, Velma even wondering if they exist. So the gang break up. It’s like One Direction all over again.
Fred and Daphne run a successful television series documenting their monster hunts. However, they’re never actual monsters and their fans are getting bored. Fred gets the idea to bring the gang back together again to catch a real one, so they travel across the country looking for exactly that. But end up encountering the same costumed humans. That is until they head to New Orleans where they meet more than they expected.
So in love with this movie. It’s just the most comforting thing to watch. Horror/Thriller cartoons are so underrated. Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, the Thriller Bark arc in One Piece! I’m getting so excited thinking about it. There’s not enough and there needs to be more. Zombie Island was so refreshing as a kid, and turns out it was the only Scooby Doo movie without as much studio interference so they went darker than most Scooby movies got. Best decision ever.
I was always used to the monsters turning out to be the local politician that’s pouring oil into the lake or something like that. But when Daphne tried to yank off the head of the Zombie and it wouldn’t budge, it blew my little kid head. The Louisianan bayou is such a good backdrop to the horrors that awaited the gang. The swampiness, misty, unclear waters and old Southern history makes it the best.
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Witches, black cats, cauldrons, Sarah Jessica Parker. Yes.
Every time October came around, Disney channel went all out. The Halloween Town franchise, Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out, that one episode of of the Suite Life of Zack and Cody: The Ghost of Suite 613, That’s So Raven Cake Fear, etc. It traumatized me in the best ways. But Hocus Pocus....a classic rewatch. There’s something about witches being involved that also amplifies a movie. I’ll say that for a lot of things in movies, but witchcraft is always a win. I think that's why shows like Charmed, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; movies like Practical Magic, the Craft, and Death Becomes Her (not really witchcraft but still) are my favorites. You cannot go wrong with a good witch. Hocus Pocus had three.
In 1993, Max Dennison and his sister Allison are new in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, where there are a lot of stories of the infamous Sanderson sisters three centuries ago who were witches persecuted for draining the youth of children in order to remain young. Before being persecuted, the witches cast a curse that resurrects them during a full moon on All Hallow’s Eve if the Black Flame Candle is lit by a virgin. Thackery Binx, a boy whose sister was murdered by the witches and got turned into a cat when he tried to stop them, guards the witches house for centuries to make sure that curse never comes to fulfillment. But when skeptical Max wanders into the house and lights that very candle, the witches are resurrected and Max spends the entire Halloween night protecting his sister and the kids of the town from the Sanderson sisters.
This movie is so campy. Not so overly serious like Practical Magic or dark like The Craft, but has a more fun twist. The maniacal laugh, the costuming, Bette Midler. My favorite scene is when the witches are flying over the cemetery, harassing and taunting the trio. Plus when Sarah sings, entrancing all the children of the town to lure them in....gold. Hocus Pocus 2 is set to come out in late 2022 and I’m excited to watch it. A little nervous - remakes are nothing new but we can all agree the 2000′s did a better job at them than now, so I hope they don’t ruin it. If it sucks, we’ll pretend it doesn’t exist. But many of the original actors are reprising their roles, even iconic Doug Jones and Billy Butcher, so that’s a good sign, right? Right?
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Who remembers this movie? I forgot Eddie Murphy was in this gem, but I rediscovered it again a few years later and now rewatch it on days where the sky is gloomy and the days are slow. Murphy’s humor paired with the beautifully haunted mansion is just perfect. Whenever I watched it as a kid, the backyard filled with hundreds of graves always creeped me out. Thriller Bark and Addam’s Family reminds me of it sometimes whenever I rewatch them too. Jennifer Tilly is a goddess no matter how minor her role was, it was needed and appreciated.
Jim Evers, played by Eddie Murphy, is a successful realtor, along with his beautiful wife Sara Evers (played by the gorgeous Marsha Thomason) with their two beautiful children Michael and Megan. Jim is a workaholic that prioritizes his job over his family, which frustrates Sara. When he misses their anniversary, he tries to make it up by taking the family on a trip to a nearby lake. However, on the way, Sara gets a call from a occupant of the Gracey Manor to sell their mansion. She wants to refuse it, but Jim, eager to make a sale, encourages her until she gives in. The mansion is located in the deeps of a bayou (more horror movies in the fucking bayou please!), so Jim makes a detour that won’t take long. However, awaiting them is more than they expected.
Terrence Stamp as Ramsley, the stoic butler content on keeping things in order, was the creepiest man I’d ever watched as a kid. The house is a close second. A black family in a horror movie....I loved. I was always used to seeing white horror movies, which I loved, however I wanted to see people that reflected myself being terrified and murdered...but in a non-systemic way, you know? I have the physical copy and rewatch this movie every time it rains and pours.
All in all, I watch these movies whenever I want to feel something. I loved my childhood and the movies that came out or played during those times. Horror isn’t the only thing I watched as a kid, but since this is my horror page I wanted to share the ones of a horrific nature. If anyone comes across this post, I hope you discover it for the first time or remember them and run to watch them again.
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My Top 5 Favorite Halloween Movies...
5. Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King
"Since 1969, The Scooby Gang have been solving mysteries while unmasking people wearing monster costumes. So what would a Scooby-Doo Halloween Movie be without rarely seen real monsters?"
4. Monster House
"While the animation may be a little unimpressive with the Main Characters, but it makes up for a perfect Halloween Movie for people of all ages."
3. Casper (1995 Movie)
"Our favorite Ghost Casper has been around has been around a lot longer than the Scooby-Doo franchise. So it makes a lot of for them to make their first Live Action Casper Movie as a Halloween Movie. Especially since this movie revealed a lot about Casper's human life! Something I'm aware that fans have been asking for decades before this."
2. Spooky Buddies
" Those of you that have seen the Air Bud series might remember this litter of adorable Golden Retirevier Puppies. These Puppies have had many adventures and perhaps one of the most memorable one has to be this spooky Halloween adventure."
1. Hocus Pocus
"Now this Halloween movie is one that has truly withstood the test of time. While I was introduced to this movie just a few years ago, I really liked it, and all of it's main characters. Besides, this Halloween Movie has it all, scares, costumes, real monsters, and a very important lesson on sibling love. As well as the unforgettable song "I'll put a Spell on You" has certainlyput a spell all over the world. Even though this movie was released in 1993, this movie still remains as one of the most beloved Halloween Movies of all time to this day and fans are still longing for a sequel."
#spoilers#scooby doo and the goblin king#monster house#casper 1995#spooky buddies#hocus pocus#happy halloween#these are all great halloween movies#no halloween movie is really good without real monsters
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