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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 4h

Omen II will always hold a special place in my heart as part of Heavy Rotation Horror on Big 80s HBO. The Final Conflict received similar treatment, but somehow seemed to have less impact. Possibly because I was 11 or 12 by the time I saw Damien and identified somewhat with this angsty bastard.

Jonathan Scott-Taylor in Damien: Omen II (1978)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 4h

Wondering if this is meant to be the same 'actor' standing in for both Rosey Grier and Ken Foree. That would've been a helluva career in the 70s alone.

AI Thumbnail on YouTube for The Thing with Two Heads (1972), wildly misrepresentative of the actually movie. Which to be fair, is exactly the sort of thing promotional posters and boxart have done throughout the ages. You can fault them for using AI, but not for hyping something above and beyond its bona fides.

AI Thumbnail on YouTube for Dawn of the Dead, a movie I've seen an unhealthy number of times, yet appears unrecognizable to me here.

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 5h

As AI thumbnails go, this one's better than most. Unless it was intended to accurately represent the film, of course. That firearm in the foreground appears particularly interesting. Looks like they muddled up a twelve gauge and a handgun of some sort. It's a mystery, as is the cast.

Subtitles: "Who are these people?"
Tommy Lee Jones as Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men (2007)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 7h

Hopkins being weird Van Helsing was very much to my liking.

Subtitles: "I want you to bring me, before nightfall, a set of postmortem knives."
Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing and Richard E. Grant as Dr. Jack Seward
Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Subtitles: "An autopsy? Lucy?"
Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing and Richard E. Grant as Dr. Jack Seward
Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Subtitles: "No, not exactly. I just want to cut off her head and take out her heart."
Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing and Richard E. Grant as Dr. Jack Seward
Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

[dialogue without subtitles: "Jack?"]
Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing and Richard E. Grant as Dr. Jack Seward
Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It always pains me to see someone onscreen open a refrigerator that's obviously just a prop. I can't say with absolute certainty that this refrigerator was running, but the filmmakers clearly wanted us to believe so.

Interior of a 1980s side by side refrigerator, that appears to be a fully functional appliance, stocked with Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dunkin Donuts, Dr. Pepper, Ramlösa Sparkling Mineral Water, and Coors The Banquet Beer.

As seen in TerrorVision (1986).

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's been over twenty years since I've seen either version of Dumplings, but I've been thinking about Bai Ling's britches ever since.

Bai Ling in Fruit Chan's Dumplings (2004)

Bai Ling and Miriam Yeung in Fruit Chan's Dumplings (2004)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I see that someone's releasing a 4k of a, what the hell, let's call it a 'film', that makes me wish I didn't live in a world where such a thing exists. Meanwhile, Albert Pyun's Radioactive Dreams remains unavailable.

Movie poster for Albert Pyun's Radioactive Dreams (1984/1986).

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In addition to being a serial killer and soldier in the Soprano crime family, Dan Grimaldi is a mathematics professor at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn.

Dan Grimaldi as Donny Kohler in Don't Go in the House (1979)

Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi in The Sopranos (1999)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I know folks are upset about executions being broadcast on live television. We all knew that was coming because we're living in a dystopia that's playing all the hits. Be that as it may, Lord willing, one day the current regime will find themselves lined up against a wall with the cameras rolling.

Subtitles: "I'd kind of like to see that."
Skippy listening to Barney about that George Raft movie on television.
Joyce Jameson and Don Knotts in The Andy Griffith Show S3,E6
Barney Mends a Broken Heart aired November 5, 1962

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Curious to know exactly which car Tom Steele was driving in Bullitt. Steve McQueen drove the Mustang as much as he was allowed, with Bud Ekins handling the really serious stuff. Bill Hickman, arguably the best stunt driver in the business, famously drove the Charger.

A young Bud Ekins on a motorcycle, which was his natural habitat.

An older, grayer Bud Ekins, wearing an EKINS t-shirt, holding tools in both hands, fingernails dirty with grease. When he wasn't riding or driving, he was working on whatever it was he rode or drove.

Bill Hickman, arguably the best stunt driver to ever sit behind a wheel, in his most famous onscreen appearance, driving the Dodge Charger that Steve McQueen (and Bud Ekins) is in hot pursuit of in Peter Yates' Bullitt (1968).

Stunt driver Bill Hickman in a more lighthearted role, as a motorcycle cop about to give a traffic citation to Lieutenant Columbo.

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hopefully the last twenty years have been kinder to Jeff Lieberman than they have to yours truly.

Jeff Lieberman and myself in Hunt Valley, Maryland, August 2006.
Director of Squirm (1976), Blue Sunshine (1977), Just Before Dawn (1981), Remote Control (1988), and Satan's Little Helper (2004).

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bought 'Dead Waters' on DVD thirty some odd years ago. Watched the movie once, then tucked it away somewhere.

Dark Waters aka Dead Waters (1993)
Looks to be the VHS sleeve for Dead Waters, but I believe this is the artwork that's on my DVD. That front cover looks awfully familiar.

Subtitles read: "And that was that. As they say."
A weathered old Texan sitting in a weathered old wheelchair in a weathered old house in the middle of weathered old nowhere.
Barry Corbin as Ellis in No Country for Old Men (2007)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The original run of Zatoichi was like twenty five movies (in a fraction of the time it took Bond to do the same) AND a four season TV series. Some are definitely better than others, but you won't find a bad one.

Shintarō Katsu as Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But I thought this was the mayor of Saint Denis.

Mayor of Saint Denis Henri Lemieux, Deputy Mayor Jean-Marc Mercier, and Arthur Morgan, Esq.

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Now those are respectable numbers. Impressive even. But presumably you've been somewhat restrained by having a life. By and large, for myself, that's not been a concern. Generally I don't document examples of my untreated mental illness, but last year I made an exception.

Letterboxd diary from June into July of 2025 showing back to back non-stop repetitive viewing of No Country for Old Men and Blood Simple, leading into five straight days of Fargo. Then after a slight pause, beginning my fortnight of Nightwing. Again, each entry represents not just a single viewing but a full day of looped playback.

Letterboxd diary showing fourteen days of Nightwing (1979).
Not once a day, but all day, every day, for two solid weeks. July 19-August 01, 2025

Letterboxd diary showing seventeen straight days of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
Not once a day, mind you. All day every day, August 15-31, 2025.

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He's called Hatfield, maybe you've Hurd of him.

Hurd Hatfield in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He did indeed. And when the most well known case of acromegaly in Hollywood history is Rondo Hatton, it's easy to see why Benedict's was considered mild.

The Heartbreak of Acromegaly - The Rondo Hatton Story 1/2
From Drew and Josh Alan Friedman’s Warts and All

The Heartbreak of Acromegaly - The Rondo Hatton Story 2/2
From Drew and Josh Alan Friedman’s Warts and All

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fun Fact: Paul Benedict, one of television's most famous Englishmen, wasn't actually English. He was born in New Mexico and grew up in Massachusetts.

Mr. Bentley, Mother Jefferson, and Tom and Helen Willis
Paul Benedict, Franklin Cover, Zara Cully, and Roxie Roker in The Jeffersons (1975)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was born in 1972. We still had troops in Vietnam. I hardly know where to begin. But I do know that it seemed like everything had teeth.

Subtitles: [chitters]
One of The Zanti Misfits
The Outer Limits Season 1, Episode 14 aired December 30, 1963

Karen Black and He Who Kills in Dan Curtis's Trilogy of Terror (1975)

Roy Scheider and Bruce in Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And I'm going back to graduate school. That was the agreement.

Janeane Garofalo as The Bowler in Kinka Usher's Mystery Men (1999)

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd kind of forgotten that The Hitchhiker made it from HBO to syndication, but of course it was on USA Network when it did.

Title screen and title character of HBO's The Hitchhiker.

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah but do you remember Max's predecessor COBOT? He visited our local Big Star and I may even still have my old poster.

Newspaper ad promoting the appearance of COBOT (or "KOBOT" as he's called here) at Carl's Market, back in 1980 something or other.
Buy One 8 Pack 16 OZ. Bottle Carton MR. PIBB, Get One FREE Plus Deposit.

Coca-Cola promotional poster as was given away at special appearances of COBOT the Coke Robot.
https://www.theoldrobots.com/smallbot13.html

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Senior year of high school (Class of '90), I had a limited edition hand numbered Jonestown t-shirt. Ordered it from a catalog advertised in Fangoria. Bone basic black screen printing on a cheap white tee. I guess they only made 900 and some odd. Hey, I was 17. Least I didn't shoot up the joint.

Yours truly, circa 1990. My room from around 1989-1990, walls and ceiling covered in horror movie posters, heavy metal band posters, Fangoria Scream Greats, etc. The room was mine, I believe the beer belonged to the photographer.

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's why I try to make a very clear distinction between artificial intelligence and Ai. Well, that and the most obvious reason.

This is the voice of Colossus, the voice of Guardian. We are one.
This is the voice of Unity.

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This time, Joel's got the place all to himself because both his parents are dead and he's the sole heir to their estate. IF he can get his dad's ashes from Chicago to San Francisco, and he's only got 48hrs to get there. But he's got his dad's Porsche and a few old friends (really old) to help him along the way.

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A big farmer here had a Starsky & Hutch Torino back in the 70s and 80s. His son drove it in high school, then the younger sister, then the baby, who was a girl my age. They all had vanity plates like HI GEAR, LO GEAR, etc. The baby ended up wrecking the car, not sure what became of it after that.

Starsky has literally driven the wheels off his Torino. Well, one of the tires, at least.
Starsky & Hutch S1,E2 Savage Sunday aired September 10, 1975

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Damn near missed celebrating my anniversary. Thirty three years ago this September, my divorce became final.

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would've figured you for a classical education.

Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967)
starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, and Robert Webber

Brian G. Hutton's Kelly's Heroes (1970)
starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Donald Sutherland

Unknown Soldier Vol 1 #223 January, 1979
Cover Artists Joe Kubert
Mission: Incredible!
Writers Bob Haney
Pencilers Dick Ayers
Inkers Romeo Tanghal
Colorists Jerry Serpe
Letterers Milt Snapinn

Weird War Tales Vol 1 #90 August, 1980
Cover Artists Joe Kubert
Beyond Gotterdammerung
Writers Bob Haney
Pencilers E.R. Cruz
Inkers E.R. Cruz
Colorists Adrienne Roy
Letterers Esphidy Mahilum

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💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well I ain't expecting Breaker Morant, but you have to work extra hard to screw up a rifle team shooting someone in the chest. I've heard of one botched firing squad in the last ever how long, versus dozens of nightmarish lethal injections over the past few years.

[last lines]
Harry Morant: Shoot straight, you bastards. - Don't make a mess of it!
Bryan Brown and Edward Woodward in Breaker Morant (1980)

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