I don't get to read as much as I used too and I'm curious about what's been sticking with people lately. Anything stuck with you? I'm speaking primarily about written works but not opposed to suggestions about other things.
Creator:andersenmom Title:Warlock Rating: PG Type: Fic Size/length/word count etc.: Prompt: 053: Crow Fandom/Ship: The KingDom, Enhypen; Louis, Sunghoon Notes/Warnings: Based on my research of what a Warlock is. This might be an outdated definition: that a Warlock is someone who was banned from his coven and turned to other magics. This idea has been in my head for a while, and this prompt and pairing worked for it. Summary A crow appears on Dongsik’s patio, looking for it’s human. Sunghoon is looking for his lost Familiar.
I’ve been trying to find this movie for years with no luck. From what I remember, it’s about a group of teens inside a house, possibly investigating something, while vampires are outside trying to lure them out. The vampires can’t be in the sunlight, so they use tricks to make it seem like it’s safe at one point, they make it look like the sun has come up, and one of the teens falls for it and goes outside. I also recall a scene at a mansion where there’s a party, and people are dancing in costumes. Toward the end, I think a girl hides in a car and waits until sunrise to stay safe. It was definitely a horror movie, not a comedy. I think I had seen it on HBO and it definitely was a low budget movie.
EDIT: I added an extra clue on chat GPT and think I freaking found it. I believe it’s “night of the demons” 2009
After the amazing discussion on my post yesterday, it got me thinking about how much we all actually care about the logic and respect within this genre.
We all know the classic tropes, but what is one specific "rule" or cliché that instantly ruins a movie for you?
For me, it’s when a character survives a terrifying ordeal... for 90 minutes just to have a "bleak for the sake of being bleak" ending where they die anyway in the last 5 seconds. It feels lazy and cheapens the whole journey.
Is it the "fake-out" jump scares? The invincible villain? Or the way characters never just turn on the lights?
What’s the one trope that makes you want to turn the movie off?
I've been trying to remember the name of a rather bad horror movie I saw in the 70's or 80's. As best as I can remember, it's about 3 or 4 young women who end up at the home (or possibly hotel) of a husband and wife (who turn out to also be siblings). The husband is evil and the wife is meek. The couple keep their adult child in the basement or under the house. He isn't verbal and only wears a diaper. The young women start getting killed and the adult child somehow ends up helping one of them escape.
Since I like historical mystery novels, I’m now thinking about a caveman murder mystery. Someone has been bashed in the head, and it wasn’t war or a stampede! Suspicion unfairly falls on the persecuted sapiens/neanderthal couple, but an eccentric older cavewoman or younger caveman has an idea: take the wolf puppies they’ve been raising to help hunt mammoth, and see if those powerful snoots can pick up a different kind of trail…
I love 1973 movie Legend of Hell House. I read the book circa 15 years ago and recently I reread it. The novel and screenplay was written by Richard Matheson. I have to say from the novel to the movie the movie improved in one major way. In the novel Florence was circa 40 years old and like the movie she was utterly naive about Belasco’s son. It pushed believability that a woman of her age could be so incredibly naive. In the movie they deaged Florence and made her to be circa 20 and her naiveness made much more sense.
Now they need to make Nancy A Collin’s authorized prequel Return to Hell House as a movie or miniseries, it focuses on the 1940 investigation featuring a young teen Ben who was played by Roddy McDowell as the adult middle aged Ben in the movie.
Which horror movie made improvements from the novel.
I mean not just interviews of the actors and Oz. I'm looking for some videos during the shoot. I know there's some BTS photos inside the US Steelbook version of it but that's all I got so far.
Have really gotten into horror movies the last few years or so, but have stuck mostly to ghost/demon unseen horror kinds of movies. Really want to find a scary 'monster' movie, preferably recent, and preferably a bigger budget so that the monster doesn't get hidden for most of the movie. Have seen 'The Ritual' get thrown around, is there anything else i should look at?
One of my favourite Peck movies. He thought long about doing a horror film but the thought that this one was about the disintegration of a marriage and the moral compass of a man as much as a horror. The cast is stellar.
During the filming of The Omen, Mark Caldwell visited the set of the production and spoke to Gregory Peck. ....All that remains of the original videotape is a sound recording I recently rediscovered in my collection. The Gregory Peck interview was shot on 16mm film, hence the reduced sound quality and camera sound in the background, the other two were on videotape. The edited master tape did include clips from the film, but as these would not make any sense in audio only I have removed them.
As of May 1, I have health insurance again! In all directions available! (Medicare is complicated that way, and explaining it takes more words than I have time for, but the TooLong,Didn'tRead of it is: if your Medicare lapses, any supplemental insurance is also voided until you get the Medicare back. Which took from January 25th until now, in my case.)
Anyhow, yay health insurance. My doc will be pleased, as will my other providers.
Social Security also told me that the lapsed time period (for which I had paid, because they don't do reinstatement until you've paid for the part you didn't get -- I AM NOT KIDDING) will include reimbursements, which will mean I can close the pay-in-installments agreement with the providers for the three over-$500-each appointments I had before I was notified that I had lapsed already. Or if not close the arrangement, I can keep paying the providers knowing that someday SocSec/Medicare/whichever will reimburse me someday. So that's good too. Complicated and more paperwork, but good.
Sorry, I'm tired just thinking about more paperwork. Am going to go do the next thing, which is cycling laundry, and then go to my workbench and Make Something.
But still, good news!
How's your May going so far?
P.S. Heh. My phone notification just reminded me to go to my workbench. I'd better get the laundry moved and get to the bench!
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