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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 3h

And now I have context for this quote.

Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 3h

And that's another Filmscream for the books! While the lineup ended up being mostly a disappointment for me, it did end on a high note and now I am home and ready to crash.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 3h

FILM #6: Serial Mom. The highlight of the evening! er, morning. Wicked black comedy that shifts from satirizing the notion of the perfect housewife to 90 true crime sensationalism. Good script, great casting.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 6h

FILM #5: Video Vixen. This is the requisite micro-budget indie and the sneak preview/"secret film." Masked lady goes around killing influencer stereotypes. More naptime. At least it was short.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 8h

It is a fitting choice for a horror movie marathon (considering it's about an audience watching a cursed film) and it was a welcome shot of energy at a time we all could use it.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 8h

FILM #4: Demons. I watched this last year for #horrormeganthon, so I won't repeat myself at length. It's still a stylish, goopy thrill ride, even if there's very little to hold it together.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 10h

The only novelty was the presentation - it's a film shot on video, edited on VCR, and screened here on 35mm to give it an extra layer of wear and grime.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 10h

It took less than 5 minutes of watching 3 weirdos ramble and wander around humping random objects before I decided I would fare better by putting in my earplugs, wrapping myself up in my cape, and taking a nap.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 12h

This one is infamous now for its unintentional gay subtext, but it's already trading the surreal dreaminess of the original for puns and increasingly convoluted deaths. Not unexpected, but still disappointing.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 12h

FILM #2: Nightmare on Elm Street 2. It was gruesome but dumb - too silly to be scary, not silly enough to be funny.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 14h

I suspect it's going to go over huge with the crowd here.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 14h

I watched it last year. It's got some neat moments and cool vibes but it never quite comes together into anything coherent.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 14h

Even then, it would always be a B/C-level title - known by enthusiasts, but not a classic or even a cult classic. It's competently made, but nothing more.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 14h

Too bad it is exceeding average at best. You could have released this 25 years ago and it would fit right in with the rest of that millennial J-horror boom. It's got all the hallmarks of that era. He'll, the fact it's directed by an American with an all-Japanese cast would be a huge selling point.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 14h

FILM #1: Never After Dark. It's pretty basic: an exorcist lady comes to a big house in the woods to purge a ghost...of a sort. According to the poster in the lobby, it came out just 2 weeks ago.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 16h

I forgot to add that this is a #horrormeganthon extra, with 5 films tonight that will be new to me (and two that are very new, period.)

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 16h

It's a little earlier than usual this year, but it's time once again for Filmscream, the all-night horror movie marathon! I'm dressed up and ready for the show to begin!

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 19h

It helps that the movie is excpetionally goofy. Any version of the cast could have gotten good material out of that thing.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 20h

Wait 'til you get to the dance break. The whiteness of that scene is off the charts.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 21h

The man was born to be a lackey.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 21h

The blame for that lies primarily with that video's director: Michael Bay. (not a joke)

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 21h

Oh I'm aware that like a lot of conservative Cuban-Americans, he's sore that grandpa used to be rich until meal ol' Castro chased them out. But even before Trump came along, as a rep, he was notable only for toeing the party line and gulping water awkwardly.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 21h

It's also fitting because Rubio has always been a worm of a man: a spineless dweeb with no brain or heart to speak of.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 21h

*looks that term up* Yeah, that's a fitting one for him in many ways.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 22h

He's too busy signing autographs as "DJ Milky" at NYCC.

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Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social · 22h

Yen licensing Fate/Strange Fake AND rescuing Kino's Journey is some of the bigger LN news we've seen this year.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 23h

Some of this can be blamed on a director with more experience in TV than film. The rest can be blamed on it being made in 1960s England, where the critics and censors treated any film with content more extreme than two people quietly taking tea together as scandalous to the extreme. Alas.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 23h

It's as if the film is too afraid to get properly ghoulish despite being set at a Grand Guignol theater. Anytime the film threatens to get exciting, it pulls the narrative breaks...at least until the final 10 mins and the film's sudden, unsatisfying conclusion.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 23h

The film is carried solely by Christopher Lee, who plays the director as a cold, callous Svengali type who commands the attention of every scene he's in. Too bad he's killed midway through and the rest falls upon Charles Glover as the "heroic" male lead, who comes off as detached and patronizing.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 23h

Theatre of Death should have been so much more than what it is. After all, it's a film set in a Grand Guignol theater where a mysterious series of murders seem to be tied to the troupe's new director and the ingenue he has taken under his wing. #horrormeganthon

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What crimes did he commit to merit such baldness?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst

A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

...which probably means it's AI generated.

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Z @asturlavi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

glint of light on broken glass #orufrey #witchhatatelier

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also I just realized how badly I mangled that initial post and not...y'know, when I could have fixed it. D'oh!

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This was the director's debut, and it shows in the boring acting, kills that are too chaotic to scare, and unwillingness to lean into the surreal dream imagery. All it's got going for it is the Aboriginal angle, as the teens are killed by deadly Aussie critters at the behest of a magic man's ghost.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am dying: "My current senator is older than the audio cassette, so I should have a good sense of who to vote for, but I have rocks in my head in place of a brain, and rocks don’t retain information. So I am asking: Please, someone advertise to me today, tomorrow, and the day after that..."

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kadaicha is both a Nightmare on Elm Street ripoff *and* a Poltergeist knockoff, as a group of Aussie teens are killed one by one because their neighborhood as supernatural revenge for the Aboriginal massacre site it was built on. #horrormeganthon

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The constant duck lips makes me think of Bratz dolls. The weirdly proportioned heads in the movie only made the likeness worse.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Will they actually let him Do a Thing instead of shoving him to side? Only time will tell.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ugh, I see the duck lips are still sticking around even if not *every* female cast member has them now.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have to presume that was due to someone at city hall who didn't know how to spell "Dorcas," a real if rather obscure biblical name.

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Waffles 🧇 @bsky @mon0eye.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yay, a brand new Escaflowne illustration for the Sunrise 50th anniversary project by Hirotoshi Sano, who was a key animator for the series.

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Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Rayearh manga fans 1) really love the new anime and its prettiness, and 2) want the anime to skip ahead to "Who do you want to be with?" "Lantis & Eagle!" just so we know they're not cowards.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm not sure where the nearest Nando's is to Rosemont, but I do know there's a tiny but kickass tiki place not far from the convention center there that will do in lieu of it.

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's not a lavish film by any means, but it's got style and a solid cast of mostly unknowns, and the sympathy it has for its duo of lady protags and their anxieties is rare to see in a horror film of this vintage. I might even dare to call it feminist?

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dream Demon owes a lot to Nightmare on Elm Street, but it takes the basic concept and runs with it in a good way, as a posh young woman's wedding anxiety dreams begin to blur into reality along with the repressed memories of an American adoptee. #horrormeganthon

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