It's Monday and I have errands to run. The world better look out... 🤘🏼
Try and have a good one! The "sensation, horror, shock" is, of course, optional, but I recommend it. I may put my vampire fangs in as I roam about town, just as a little treat to myself.
Started thinking about physical media, ended up ordering a bunch of Shudder originals on DVD & Blu-ray 😂
Apparently the Internet is a dangerous place for me late at night
But at least I'm getting some badass movies!
@Well_Worth_A_Read@horror EXACTLY all this, plus the fact that they take it upon themselves to edit stuff now, too.
I have approx 25% Blu-rays/75% DVDs. I'm buying Blu-rays of stuff I don't have on DVD ONLY because I went through the whole "transfer your collection over" when DVDs came out & I am not going thru it again. But I'm perfectly happy w the quality of them- I kinda wish people had just been satisfied w them as it was such an improvement over VHS. (Although I still have some VHS, lol)
Hell House LLC Director's Cut
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor
All are invited to watch & "live post" to one/both of the movies. I'll be there for the Director's Cut- just watched Origins- BUT all #spooky#horror ppl welcome!
For a hashtag, what about #HHLLCWP?
Reply re: the tag ⬆️ & if you'll be watching!
I'm having a bit of a hard time with Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. I knew going in that some of the short stories were going to be a bit "out there." A few are quite good, but most I think are not really my taste. I'm about 60% of the way through and hope to have it done this weekend. Really, the sooner, the better.
I know Palahniuk has written a bunch of books. This is the first of his that I've picked up.
@dbsalk@bookstodon oh yeah, but its also the most artful example of it he ever did. Like, Pygmy is a book about a south asian refugee who carries out a campaign of vengance against the US and I can only describe it as tasteless. Snuff is about making a snuff film but its also a "oh boy Chuck, you have a lot of thoughts about feminism" sort of book.
@Well_Worth_A_Read@horror OMG. That's terrible and I would also be traumatized and reticent about going, I'm so sorry that happened to you. And teeth pain is some of the worst pain on Earth. :(
@stina_marie@horror Thank you, It was the worst pain I've ever been through. There were so many nights I cried myself to sleep and I hoped I would never wake up.
“They were both experienced in such affairs, and powerful with the spade; and they had scarce been twenty minutes at their task before they were rewarded by a dull rattle on the coffin lid.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher”, read by Sir Christopher Lee
Ruth Richardson writes in The Lancet on how Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher” shows the author’s
“acute analysis of degrees of guilt; the complicit socialisation of maleness; the hypocrisies which so often lie behind worldly success; the damage behind apparent failure; the dark silences that can exist in social relations that pass as bonhomie”
@SaltiredPopcorn@horror Right on! Great review and now I may buy it on VOD instead of waiting for it to stream somewhere (Shudder, almost definitely.) I didn't know Jonathan Schaech was in it! He's super unappreciated & I always enjoy his performances whenever he pops up. Thanks for sharing. :)
We have The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, and maybe The Tell-Tale Heart all ready to read to you live over at https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy
Make yourself cosy and warm, then come over to be chilled!