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Christianne Benedict

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Cartoonist, Film Writer, Enthusiastic Comma-Splicer, Malcontent. She/her if you please. krelllabs.blogspot.com

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 5h
I am part of this project. I am the artist most likely to cause this project to ship out late (though I hope not; we'll see). Join us, please, and support queer comics. My story is set at carnival in Venice. @kickstarter.com @taramavery.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...
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Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror
Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is a full-color comics anthology of LGBTQ+ horror stories centered around annual events.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I started my October horror movie blogging project with a piece on Mike Flanagan's Ouija: Origin of Evil. It's only ten years late, I guess... krelllabs.blogspot.com/2026/10/ouij...
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Texting from Beyond
Longtime readers of this blog probably know that I am a deeply skeptical person. I am a pure existentialist. I believe this is all there i...
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Main Theme From "The Cheaters" by Southern Culture on the Skids. I'm a garage rock punk at heart. youtu.be/JKnuwMrVvQo?...
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Theme From "The Cheaters"
YouTube video by Southern Culture On The Skids - Topic
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Also, Ride the Wild Surf main theme by The Astronauts (I know that Jan and Dean were more famous for this, but I like this version better). youtu.be/sBy2eyjAWno?...
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The Astronauts - Main Title From 'Ride The Wild Surf' (RCA Victor 8419)
YouTube video by Vinyl and shellac by Starday
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Harlem Nocturne by The Viscounts (plenty of other people got to Link Wray already and my other first impulse, Taxidermist Surf by Man...or Astro-Man has a voice sample at the beginning and end). youtu.be/KfAv8yAaHps?...
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The Viscounts / Harlem Nocturne
YouTube video by 1Bluesboy1
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Gothic movie a day that I love, sketchy dubbing edition. This brings all the stuff that's subtext in the Gothic up into the actual text. Kinky.
A couple makes out on a rocky beach in the purple gloaming in The Whip and the Body (1963). A figure stands in the distance.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I swear to god, Schmitt looks like the kind of government official who is plotting to exterminate the X-Men.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I miss the days when my senator(s) weren't perpetual embarrassments. Jesus H. Christ, what "dirtbags" they both are. Schmitt may even be worse than Hawley, but they're neck and neck.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Alternately: The Legend of Hillbilly John , or Who Fears the Devil? Best version you can find is in the second Severin folk horror box set, which has both cuts and a restoration job. Other versions have some issues.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can watch this one without ads at the Internet Archive. Or download it and use it for your own purposes. Yay, public domain!
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Paul Leni The Cat And The Canary ( 1927) Music By Dionysis Boukouvalas (live Version)
The Cat And The Canary. 1927 This has been a PUBLIC DOMAIN staple for years. A film that was originally a horror film, Now it has comic elements. Please no bad reviews , no hate speech or generalized ...
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another Gothic movie a day that I love. American silent film edition. Though, I guess it's international given that its director is a German expatriate.
Lynda La Plante is threatened in her bed by a clawed hand coming through the drapes in The Cat and the Canary (1927 version).
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I read a LOT of Wellman when I was younger. The first thing was "Owls Hoot in the Daytime" in Kirby McCauley's Dark Forces anthology, then the 80s novels (which were conveniently offered by the SFBC), and finally the Night Shade editions. Have you seen the Silver John movie?
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Or, if you dig Dr. Caligari, the director's hardcore version of the same aesthetic, Cafe Flesh.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Clearing the blogging pipes ahead of screening season and the Halloween Scare-a-thon. Looking at Resident Evil (2026). krelllabs.blogspot.com/2026/09/resi...
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Speed Run
I have never played Resident Evil . I'm not a video game person at all. I have enough time-consuming hobbies, thank you very much. I have ...
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It might be fun if it was in original pronunciation. The audience would all wonder why the actors were all talking like pirates.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
even though Shakespeare wrote in modern English. Hell, why not do it in Italian? SMDH.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Check the alt text on the picture.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A gothic movie a day that I love. This one is American, though set in England. It was one of my mother's favorite films. I wonder if she realized just how freaking queer it is.
A woman wearing a diaphanous gown runs across the lawn of a moody, gothic manor, chased by a man in the distance. A black and white screen cap from The Uninvited (1944)
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A visitor to my office this morning.
A doe, grazing next to a warehouse. Woods in the background.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another Gothic film a day that I love, international edition. This movie was shot in 70mm technicolor, believe it or not. It's probably my favorite film from this actor.
Paul Naschy wolfs out in Frankenstein's Bloody Terror.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This has footnotes, btw. Like I'm an actual academic. Hah.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reclaiming some of my writing from the now-defunct Film & Fishnets webzine. I'm very proud of this piece on the doomed cult actress, Zoe Tamerlis Lund. Ms.45 herself... krelllabs.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
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Sensitive Content Warning
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Another Gothic horror movie a day that I love, international edition. This one is from Spain. Its leading man met a bad end, alas.
Elsa Pataky in period garb holding a lantern in the dark. A still from Romasanta (2004)
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another Gothic movie a day that I love, international edition. This one is from Taiwan.
A woman crawls on the floor under the dangling feet of hanged corpses in The Heirloom (2005)
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Gothic horror movie a day that I love, international edition. A wicked send-up of Hammer horror.
Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski, Jack McGowran, et al in the Dance of the Vampires sequence from The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A gothic horror movie a day that I love, international edition. This is a batshit insane movie. Like yesterday's movie, this is from Mexico.
Tina Romero in Alucarda, naked (naughty bits are covered) and covered in blood. She appears to have been drinking deep the red plasma of life because her mouth is full of it.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Saw a femmed Tintin on my feed tonight and I thought, "Why bother?" Tintin already looks like a baby dyke with that hairdo. I mean, y'all see it, right?
Tintin and Snowy by Herge. In this image, Tintin is on the move, wearing a brown suit with a yellow v-neck sweater and is putting on a trenchcoat.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
October is getting closer, so it's time for some horror movies I love. Particularly international Gothics from around the world.
Isabela Corona in The Witch's Mirror (1962), poring over some curious and quaint grimoire, and surrounded by occult paraphernalia.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oof.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Goodbye Uncle Tom or something else? (yeah. it's racist).
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Today's movie a day that I love is in the category of actors I had a crush on in my youth. It's an epistemological film noir, too, which is icing on the cake.
Madeleine Stowe on violin in a sepia-toned still from Blink (1993)
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My story is set at Carnivale in Venice. It's kinda sorta inspired by a couple of Thomas Ligotti stories. I'm doing EVERYTHING by hand as a middle finger to AI. The only computer touch will be scanning it for print. Here's a work in progress page, where I just pray I can trust the process.
An unfinished comics page, painted in watercolor, depicting a woman going down from her room to the water parade in Venice at Carnivale.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm going to have a story in this anthology. My story is cursed but I think I'm going to push through on sheer spite. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...
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Coming soon: Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror
Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is a full-color comics anthology of LGBTQ+ horror stories centered around annual events.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A movie a day that I love. This film and this director seem to revel in turning genres upside down and round and round. This sucker has a punch.
Kim Hye-ja dances in a field to the rising sun in Mother (2009)
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A movie a day that I love, BDSM division.
Catherine Deneuve tied to a post. She is wearing a white gown. Still from Belle de Jour (1967).
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Seated for Coyote vs Acme. I'll try to ignore the fact that coyotes are actually faster than roadrunner.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That movie was We Are the Night, by the way, which is pretty good even if its best scene is swiped from Near Dark. The film in this picture is not horror, but is altogether darker withal.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Another film a day that I love. The first time I saw this actress in a movie, she was playing a vampire and her voice was dubbed. Imagine my surprise at this film, which is a freaking masterpiece.
Nina Hoss on a train platform faces off against her faithless ex-husband who doesn't recognize her in Phoenix (2014)
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yet another movie a day that I love, sacrilege edition.
Peter O'Toole up on the cross in The Ruling Class. He hasn't figured out that he's Jack the Ripper yet.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Possibly the best horror film of the 2000s. In a dead heat with Let the Right One In, I think.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Went to see The Wrath of Khan/Space Seed double last night and it was packed. Without commenting on any of the other stuff, I gotta say that the duel in the Mutara Nebula is the most beautiful space battle ever filmed. Just lovely.
The Enterprise chases the Reliant in the Mutara Nebula in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's been a while since I showed a pic of myself online. This isn't new, but I do love the attitude in it.
Picture of myself holding the Roan Group laserdisc edition of The Bird With the Crystal Plumage. I am wearing nerdy black-rimmed glasses, but no make-up. There are no sex toys in the frame, thankfully.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think I need to stop reading comics. For fuck's sake, dude. What the hell are you doing?
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Starewicz was a genius, so I'm not surprised.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From the Wikipedia page for Go Motion. The source cited by the article: Smith, Thomas G. (1986). Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Special Effects. New York: Ballantine Books.
History

In the 1920s, Ladislas Starevich started using this technique by the time he started making films in France. He moved the puppet or the set during the exposure of the frame to create motion blur.[2] Some of this can be seen in films like The Midnight Wedding, Love in Black and White, The Voice of the Nightingale or The Little Parade and more extensively in the battle scene of The Queen of the Butterflies (1924) and The Mascot (1933).

Phil Tippett and Industrial Light & Magic later recreated the go motion technique for some shots of the tauntaun creatures and AT-AT walkers in the 1980 Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back.[3] After that, go motion was used for many other movies: for the dragon in Dragonslayer (1981),[4] the dinosaurs in the prehistoric documentaries Prehistoric Beast (1984)[5] and Dinosaur! (1985), the wings of the harpies in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985),[6] the lord demon creature in Howard the Duck (1986), the winged demon in The Golden Child (1986), the extraterrestrial living flying machines in Batteries Not Included (1987), and the two-headed Eborsisk dragon in Willow (1988). The last film using go motion was Coneheads (1993).[2] Other minor sequences using go motion appeared in films like the first three Indiana Jones installments (1981–1989) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).

With the completion of Jurassic Park (1993), Tippett Studio abandoned go motion and fully converted its teams and equipment to CG computer-graphics.[7]
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Tippett was responsible for the walkers and the tauntauns in The Empire Strikes Back, and those both used Go-motion. I believe it was developed for that film.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another day, another film I love. I am generally not a fan of the director of this film, but he isn't on my black list because there is a small cluster of his work that tickles me just so. Like this film.
Philip Baker Hall as Nixon in Secret Honor (1984). There is a portrait of Woodrow Wilson behind him.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The thing I love about Bull Durham is that it understands that baseball is about failure. Plus I love that it's kinda sorta based on Lysistrata.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yet another movie I love a day. I often tell people that French cinema is my blind spot, but for someone who says that, I own a LOT of French movies. Including this one.
The delicate work of a bank heist in Rififi (1955), one of the foundational heist movies.
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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A movie a day that I love, day who knows? A comedy chase sequence that has no equal in the sound era.
Mike, Sully, and Boo hang off a door racing through the door warehouse in Monsters, Inc.
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