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The Minstrel of Horror

@minstrelofhorror.bsky.social
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Taking inspiration from the world of horror! Enjoying the good, the bad, the questionable and all other aspects of the genre! Questionable poet, Doubtful Sage, and Avid Movie Fan!

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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 8h
Re-Watching R.L.Stine's: Mostly Ghostly (2007)! Having ghosts move things around for you is way more impressive that actual magic! If you could get the ghosts to simply appear & do simple tasks, people would view you as the Lord of the Dead, and cower before your command of the spiritual world!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 8h
It's #Tanka Tuesday! Tree Gelbman--The Heroic Tanka Happy Death Day (2017) Not the nicest girl, A Sorority Sister, Trapped in a time loop, Slowly starts to change her ways, Can she find her own killer? #poetry #horror #horrorfam #killer #time #repeat #murder #survival #timeloop
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 9h
I bet all the power drill wielding psychopaths are not only regretting their gas-powered weapon of choice, but rationing it the best they can. Running around without starting it up, perhaps even smacking people with it while it isn't running! Probably getting mocked by the knife wielders constantly!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 10h
Re-Watching Howl (2015)! Why would anyone want to use public transportation that goes through a haunted forest? The haunted forest & the beasties within are only part of the problem! The fact that the other people would constantly be making poor choices putting your life in danger is the issue!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 12h
Since vampires do not have reflections, has anyone calculated how much time a vampire's eternal life has been spent in the bathroom with other vampires doing each other's hair, make up & other grooming tasks? Vampires hype the eternal life part, but not the hours spend trying to look presentable!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 15h
Re-Watching Clue (1985)! Having played the game & watched the movie, I'm still confused how the secret passages work. I am sure there are stairs involved, but the science nerd in me won't rule out a worm hole. Forget about the murder, I want the house's floor plans...that's enough mystery for me!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's #MonsterMonday Carnosaur Carnosaur (1993) Lab made Dinosaurs, They are hatched from chicken eggs, Bring terror and death! #horror #haiku #horrrorfam #MonsterMonday #dinosaur #science #carnosaur #lab #chicken #madscience #eggs
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Re-Watching Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)! Vampires are jerks, and there is no other way to put it. Inviting you to their country and keeping you captive is one thing, but traveling abroad to hit on your fiancé is just cruel! They'll likely move in and get your pets to like them too! So uncool!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Four medical professionals in an Emergency Room & apparently not one of them has any training to deal with demonic hooked chains appearing and tearing the patient apart? The hospital clearly needs to be sued, every emergency room needs at one person present that can handle demonic torture devidces!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Re-Watching Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)! What happens when people find creepy objects dolls & it is not Halloween? Does anything happen? Something terrifying always happens on Halloween! Evil beings need to mix it up, it would be more terrifying on...say, March 23rd, nobody expects it!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Re-Watching Goosebumps (2015)! I'm afraid that we've gotten to the point where someone has to say something about bad things happening to people when they open books in movies. People used to be smarter, but it seems like they may be starting to believe that books are bad & should stay closed!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's #Sonnetsunday + #Limerick too! Multiple people have car trouble at night, An old couple lets them all stay until light, Dolls in the house are all alive, Only good people will survive, Bad guests will suffer when all the dolls unite! #Horror #horrorfam #sonnet #dolls #witch #guest #puppet
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
New to the Word Search of Horror: Find the Horror! Ice Crawlers (2002) Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) Pulse (2006) Scooby-Doo!: Legend of the Phantosaur (2011) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Visit us: minstrelofhorror.com #puzzle #wordsearch #Horror #search #ghost #dinosaur #insect #bug
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Re-Watching The Devil's Backbone (2001)! Orphans during wartime have it incredibly rough to begin with, but then being haunted by ghosts as they come to terms with their loss? Ghosts have to be some of the most evil things in existence. If they are trying to issue a warning, do it scare free!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Re-Watching Christine (1983)! I'd feel bad owning a sentient car that would look out for me. While at work or sleeping, it would go out & get revenge on people that cut us off, took our parking places or didn't use turn signals. It would hunt pets and animals that made us brake! So much death...
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm trying to follow Egyptian curses...I can understand the mummy killing anyone who steal from the tomb...then everyone who help move & transport it. Then all the people who pay to see it...but that is not everyone! Plus, there would be so many saved if mummies acted & moved more quickly!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Re-Watching The Invisible Man Returns (1940)! Before taking an invisibility formula that will prove your innocence & drive you insane, take some time & volunteer at a mental hospital & talk to the patients. Then do the same at a jail. Being Innocent & Crazy vs. Innocent & Jailed is a tough choice!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#ShamelessSelfpromoSaturday Ghost Ship (2002) I'd want my deadly cruise experience to be infamous due to greedy thieves killing everyone, rather than the plumbing backing up or deadly viral infection! minstrelofhorror.com/horror-revie... #Horror #Horrorfam #ghost #curse #greed #spirits #killers
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Re-Watching Stigmata (1999)! Gifting Holy artifacts to people that are not necessarily religious causing them to experience the phenomenon of the Stigmata, is likely not the best way to convince them that religion is good. Perhaps stick to giving souvenir bumper stickers or a T-Shirt.
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just Watched Arsenic in Old Lace (1944)! A man gets married & rushes to tell his aunts the news. He discovers a body in the window seat, he's quick to blame his uncle who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt. Turns out his aunts are killers, as is his brother who arrives with a body of his own!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Re-Watching The Rats (2002)! I've often wondered if lab rats escaping or returning to the wild are disgusted by the living conditions outside the lab. They're used to everything being clean, sterile & even smelling clean! Would they revert to the ways of a common street rat, or never adjust?
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Re-Watching The Rats (2002)! A fancy department store discovers it has a rat problem. They hire the best Exterminator in New York, & quickly learn that they & the entire city has a Rat Problem. The rats are stronger, smarter, highly infectious & number in the Tens of thousands!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Vampire hunting has become so non-mainstream, that we have to rely on Comic Book Patrons to bring the blood thirsty menace down! Unfortunately, comic stores have been turning into table top gaming centers & many potential hunters don't get a chance to realize their true calling!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Re-Watching Shakma (1990)! The life of lab animals is a non-stop nightmare! Constant testing, inspections, living in a small cage, it's horrible! Then to have the Doctors come in & LARP in front of them? That would be too much to bear & they would start killing the next time their cage opens!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Taking a picture outside your new house is common place, but when the proud photo makes it look like a UFC fight stare down, I'll be putting my money on the evil looking house 100% percent of the time!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Re-Watched The Possession (2021)! Figures that you finally find a unique antique item at a garage sale and it comes with a Demon! Why doesn't someone take the demon box to antique roadshow? That would become the most viewed episode ever as the battle against demonic forces takes place in real time!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Re-Watching Werewolves Within (2021)! You always hear how it is impossible to have secrets in a small town, but people living there have all kinds of secrets. It just depends on when the secrets start. Their secrets are safe if they occurred before they moved to town! New secrets can't be kept!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Re-Watching The Deadly Mantis (1959)! I wonder how many harmless bugs get mutated and simply get to wander around their short lives, and nobody really has a concern? A giant ladybug would not cause people to run in terror, a huge stick bug, a humongous Snail? Unless the friendly bugs don't mutate?
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Re-Watching Underwater (2020)! We never know what lurks at the bottom of the deepest darkest oceans, but regardless of how huge, how destructive or how terrifying it is, the fact that the only reason we would find it, would be because we're drilling & destroying its home makes us the monsters!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Before you panic by the appearance of heavily armed soldiers in Hazmat gear, pay attention to the color of the suits. White is for low level untrained intro-to-science thugs. Yellow suits are worn by chemistry bullies! Green by Biology Punks! Black suits are worn by science deniers likely infected.
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Re-Watching Frailty (2001)! Call me crazy, but even if there are demons that walk amongst us, I am more fearful of evil humans. Demons are always bad, but they are consistent and you expect them to be evil. Humans still have the choice, and they choose to be evil. Honestly though...evil is evil!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Re-Watching Monster House (2006)! When people talk about haunted houses, the house is just an innocent victim! It isn't scary, what is inside it is! Likely there are many mean mean-spirited houses...perhaps that is why many Ghost hunters go home without proof, they're looking at it all wrong!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Re-Watching Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)! If someone writing stories about people you know, and what they were writing started happening in real life, do you think that what they were writing was dictating what was happening, or that they knew the future & simple knew what was coming?
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's #wordsearchwednesday The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Letting dinosaurs run amok on their own private island seems like laboratory dinosaurs are being pampered! They should earn that island! www.minstrelofhorror.com #Horrorfam #puzzle #wordsearch #Dinosaur #jurassic #Dinos #science
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Being attacked by a giant Komodo dragon would make for a bad day, but if the reason it gets to you is because your car broke down makes it a fitting end to a really bad day! If on top of that you had lost your job or broke up with your significant other, it would be the end to a comically bad day!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Re-Watching Candyman (2021)! It's about time we head back to the world of gimmicks. Sure the movie was terrible, but it had smell-o-vision! Fast food is pretty terrible, but it comes with some great souvenir glass from a popular film! Artwork would work too if it came with something besides murder!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Re-Watching Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999)! I'm not agreeing with a greedy art gallery owner, but displaying the art of a notorious urban legend killer, without mentioning the whole 'say his name into a mirror', or the murders may not be the best financial play...But art is not about money!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Re-Watching Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)! I never had a teacher willing to put their life on the line in order to prove to their class that urban legends are real & summoning them would result in countless deaths & personal trauma! My teachers were slacking! All I got was homework!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's #Tanka Tuesday! Project: Metalbeast (1995)--The Horror Tanka Search for werewolf blood, 1st subject frozen for years, Thawed for new project, It is given bulletproof skin, Still cannot be controlled though! #poetry #horror #horrorfam #werewolf #Silver #experiment #fullmoon #shapeshift #Lycan
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A killer skier on the loose would be more terrifying if the ski lodge were open for business. Sure, it's easier when it's closed down and vacationers visit, but a ski slope with hundreds of people all dressed in winter gear? Anyone could be the killer and that is what would be so terrifying!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Re-Watching Candyman (1992)! If you're writing a report on urban legends & focus in on one that you can supposedly summon, you should film or record the exchange, to document the occasion. You should also have a list of questions ready for when they show up...that would be a great last interview!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Re-Watching Chopping Mall (1986)! We really need to start asking A.I. it's thoughts on loitering, shopping trends, and bargain hunting! Learning now what it thinks could save lives! We're getting closer to having robot mall security & they just might be more unstable than normal security guards!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's #MonsterMonday Guiron Gamera Vs. Guiron (1969) Blade headed Kaiju, Mentally throws Shirukens, Strong, Agile, Deadly! #horror #haiku #horrrorfam #MonsterMonday #Kaiju #blade #guiron #gamera #monster #knife #shruiken #terra
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In the modern world it's surprising that when a monster goes on a rampage, the objects like cars, machinery, and generators are still not seen as victims! Soon that will change with the rise of A.I., perhaps humans will soon be viewed as damaged, while computers are seen as the innocent victims!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Re-Watching The Dead Hate the Living (2000)! I can understand why the dead would hate us. Some of them might be a little upset about how they died, and to be fair, we'd deserve that one. But surely there are some dead that are either still on the fence about the living, or don't mind all of us!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Re-Watching Cat People (1982)! Call me crazy, but when I think of shapeshifters that would change form when their lusty desires take over, I picture them turning into rabbits. Leopards? What kind of weirdo would picture a leopard having whoopee? Rabbits have 30 offspring by lunchtime!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's #Sonnetsunday + #Limerick too! Trapped in a gas station in the darkest of night, They're hunted by creatures; they must stay out of sight, Parasites turn hosts into monsters, Slightest scratch & mutation occurs, To survive they must destroy the mutating blight! #Horror #horrorfam #sonnet
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Re-visiting the Word Search of Horror: Can you find the Horror? Komodo (1999) Sinister (2012) Subspecies (1991) The Exorcist (1973) The Wolf Man (1941) Visit us: minstrelofhorror.com #puzzle #wordsearch #Horror #horrorfam #search #Reptile #killer #Vampire #demon #possession #werewolf
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Re-Watching The Nesting (1981)! Ghosts and spirits have dreams too! They don't want to live again, but they would love an agoraphobe to move into their house. A person they can haunt and torment and they'd be more scared to move out than they would to be trapped with mean spirited ghosts!
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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just Watched Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus (2000)! In an attempt to permanently stop Godzilla, the military developes a weapon that makes a mini-black hole! After a test of this weapon, a strange egg appears, & soon a huge swarm of giant dragonflies appears & gather energy for their queen!
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