Mario
@tomatograndpa
The cool ghoul who's everybody's pal! Horror, video games, anime?, death. Medical examiner. Co-host of You Can't Scare Me!
Home Depot comes dangerously close to unleashing the terror of Travis McElroy upon your household.
Please enjoy how hard the copy writer tries to sell the major technological advancement of...being able to move a skeleton's arm up and down slightly.
"Some trouble never outgrows the room..." Hey gang, what does that mean? Are we pretending that's a thing people say??
Home Depot has revealed it's entire Halloween lineup so that can only mean one thing: time for Halloween animatronic ad copy! Tremble in terror before...Dennis.
Resident Evil (2002)- 40 years after making a movie as remarkable as Carnival of Souls, humanity accomplished another stunning cinematic achievement in Resident Evil, a film with no characters. Truly awful, I am sad to be replacing my weekly Steven Seagal night with this franchise for the next month
Carnival of Souls- In 1962 a bunch of industrial filmmakers slapped together an actual God damn nightmare on film. A truly haunting work. It's creepy now, so I can only imagine how profoundly upsetting this would have been for contemporary audiences. A clear influence on all of David Lynch's work.
Encounters of the Spooky Kind II- While not as perfect an experience as the first, this is still a lot of fun. If you need more kung-fu ghost fighting (and who doesn't), you will be well-served here. Features one of the wildest final lines of dialogue I have ever heard in a film.
Encounters of the Spooky Kind- With no exaggeration, one of the greatest films ever made and perhaps one of mankind's greatest achievements. Kung-fu ghost fighting, Taoist magic duels, and exploding chickens galore. Genuinely one of the most fun movie watching experiences you will ever have.
Tales From the Crypt: Bordello of Blood- Once you get past Dennis Miller's really pathetic attempts to be a cool leading man, this is a lot of fun. It's gory, it's horny, it's extremely silly and everyone else involved understood the assignment. Angie Everhart gives a truly iconic performance.
Sleepaway Camp- Truly the definition of trash cinema. I can't say I didn't have fun watching a camp full of sex criminals get killed off, but I would recommend this to no one. A lot of, let us say, "curious" male costuming choices and an ending that has, and I cannot overstate this, aged *poorly*.
Widow's Bay- technically I watched this before spooky season, but I finished a second watch yesterday. 9.5 episodes of some of the best horror TV ever produced, somewhat hurt by a finale that feels both rushed and unfinished (to set up for season 2). Wonderful cast all around. *Nearly* perfect.
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination- Edogawa Ranpo: On reread, while recognize the ways Ranpo has been hugely influential on not just Japanese horror, but also Japanese culture writ large, I find his style is simply not for me. The Human Chair and The Caterpillar are, however, clear standouts.
28 Days Later- If you can believe it, I've never seen this movie. It's really not a surprise that this ended up defining zombie media for the subsequent 2 decades. Even having seen the culture it inspired, it feels so fresh and inventive. It's commitment to atmosphere and character really shines.
As we all know, Halloween begins July 5th, so I will once again be posting all the seasonal media I engage with here.
Sure I may be working on our nation's birthday, but that doesn't mean we aren't celebrating here in the morgue.
I have ended up on Great American State Fair tiktok, and every video is one person standing in an empty field going
A bunch of dipshits: "Finally, a bold new era for Xbox, we can move past all the firings and shuttering of beloved studios." Microsoft:
Good Christ the whole post. Somehow humanity has to suffer through a second Max Landis.
