#All Hollows Eve

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[random-apollo-child]

I scared 7 fucking kids, gods I love Samhain

@help-help-i-need-an-adult @0dde11eth @everything-but-the-not-natural @fandom-junk-drawer

[afnguy]

Happy Halloween to everyone! Wishing you a scary good time. Illustrations by: Ashley F. Nitkin (he/him) afn_4@yahoo.com

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[interstellar-elf]

It's that time of the year again when Evangelical Christians rant about how "true Christians" shouldn't celebrate Halloween, while a bunch of terminally online Christians and Atheists will claim not only Halloween is Christian but also somehow has no real pagan roots, or that these things came into being whole and true without any prior thing existing before it, or that pagans never had any culture aside from sacrificing and having a few gods they worshiped. Or you get the Christians who repeat stuff that was already considered a fallacy back when they created, like the "great god Samhain" and Druids worshiping Baal and throwing children and cats into fires so they can drink their blood. Or the very thought of something being one thing cancels it out or the idea that Christian is synonymous with "good" vs pagan which gets synonymous with "bad" or "wrong" or "evil."

The truth is that Halloween is both Christian and pagan; the name comes from the term "All Hollow's Eve", used to denote the day before all saints were commemorated. However, it does have roots in ancient harvest festivals from Celtic times, especially Samhain, which is still used as the word for Halloween in Gaelic and Welsh languages. Some of the activities associated with Halloween may have been from Samhain activities, with divination games and leaving food out for the Ao si, being a sort of precursor to soul-caking and later along the line trick or treating. If anything you need to know, the whole aspect of mingling Christian and celtic pagan traditions seem to be a huge thing in Irish and Scottish history, media like The Wolfwalkers,The Song of the Sea and The Secret of Inish Roan showcasing that.

As for anyone interested in Halloween history, may I suggest a few books:

Lesley Pratt Bannatyne. Halloween: An American Holiday, An American History.

Lisa Morton. Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween.

David S. Skal. Halloween: A History of America's Darkest Holiday*

*I put an asterisk there because Skal is a journalist rather than a historian

[chriscdcase95]

Terrifier 3 predictions

Edit: as of November of 2023, and Terrifier 3’a actual preview, this post is outdated.

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Read the title. It may be a little early to make predications (edit: yup) on the third Terrifier, but it’s been on my mind for a while now.

I’ve been writing these down since the DVD release, but I’m just getting to editing and posting them now.

So I’m just gonna stop wasting time with introductions, and get to the list.

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1. It'll be set on the same night as Terrifier 2.

Damien Leone said the third movie picks up right after 2, and seeing as it’s implied to be just after Sienna decapitates Art, I doubt there’ll be a time skip. It may even homage something like Halloween II or Halloween Kills.

With this in mind, Sienna and Jonathan wouldn’t have had time to recuperate after their fight with Art; and assuming Sienna gets any kind of “Angel” powers to counter Art’s she wouldn’t have enough time to master her them.

This would allow Sienna to learn to master these powers over the movie, and keep her from being this invincible OP hero.

2. Terrifier 3 will have a hospital setting.

Again, maybe as a homage to Halloween II, but a lot of my predictions have to do with characters going to a hospital or two.

Which kind, I don’t know. An emergency room would be most likely for Jonathan at least, but Art and the Possessed Vicky are in a psychiatric clinic. I can’t think of a believable reason they’d be in the same building. Maybe the staff are forced to take Vicky to the hospital, but wouldn’t the ward have its own medical wing ?

Maybe I’m overthinking it.

It should be noted that Damien Leone also wanted to make a feature film based off The 9th Circle short film (Art’s debut). Before that idea was scrapped, its story would have involved teenagers being trapped in an abandoned hospital, overrun by demons.

Leone already recycled some of his old ideas for Terrifier 2; Sienna herself was based on a character he wanted to write back in 2008, so I can see him reviving some of the scrapped film here.

It might even be dubbed something like “Terrifier: The 9th Circle”.

Which leads us too…

3. Art will be out of commission for much of the movie…I mean, he’s literally a head at this point. But this would lead to other threats taking the stand.

I’m talking about The 9th Circle demons. Art is practically backed up by the forces of Hell, and apparently he’s important enough to them that his resurrection is a must.

So what I’m picturing is these demons stepping into the fray. If they go the hospital route, and revise The 9th Circle, these demons would take over the hospital, killing in Art’s place while rebuilding his body.

For example, they would kill and mutilate staff and patients for body parts/organs, Frankenstien-ing a body for Art to reattach his head.

Plus it gives Sienna something to build her power on. She wouldn’t just be fighting Art himself, but numerous demons of different varieties and powers. Think Die Hard in a demon infested hospital.

4. If Art is out of commission, we may learn some of his backstory. Being a reanimated head, it’s not like Art can do much of anything besides think.

So to pass the time, we’d get flashbacks here and there about Art’s past with Art thinking about how he got here…but they will subvert the typical slasher villain sob story, and keep him unsympathetic.

Here’s some examples, off the top of my head.

Art was bullied as a child ? Well, who doesn’t get bullied ? Plus, it would turn out the bullying he suffered was mere teasing, or at least pretty tame compared to more severe examples of bullying. Carrie White, he is not.

If they build up an abusive parents backstory ? It turns out his parents were well meaning, if strict and disconnected, at worst. The examples of “abuse” Art apparently suffered consisted of having to do mundane chores around the house every now and then.

If Art had someone in his life who left him and broke his heart ? Art was an emotionally distant boyfriend (at best) especially when it was clear his partner was going through something that he was indifferent too.

Alternatively, whoever broke Art’s heart wasn’t romantically involved with him in the first place; Art just had a really bad case of “Nice Guy Syndrome”.

Again, these are just examples I’d think of; things that wouldn’t make Art tragic or sympathetic, or even explain why he such a raasclaat pulling this kind of buffoonery.

5. Going with the above, if - and that’s a Big IF - we get any kind of face/voice reveal for Art, they’re gonna pull the “They Look Just Like Everyone Else” card.

It'd revealed that underneath his clown getup, Art isn’t actually deformed; his silent clown gimmick is just that; his costume is just that. His pointy nose ? Prosthetics. His rotting teeth ? Dentures you could pick up at a Halloween store. 

If we ever see Art without his makeup (or prosthetics), it’s just David Howard Thorton’s normal face. Art may not even be a genuine mute; his silence would just be part of the shtick. If we hear Art’s speak, it’s just David Howard Thorton’s natural speaking voice.

The reason why no one was able to find Art over the years isn’t supernatural or that he just has a good hiding spot; he just has such a mundane and casual appearance and demeanor.

You wouldn’t think to question the guy minding his own business at the pancake house, or the grocery store, or hanging around the mall.

You could be sitting across the table from Art at a dinner date, remarking about the Miles County Massacre, and you wouldn’t be the wiser as he nods and smiles.

Think Machine’s face reveal from 8MM, and you’ll get a good idea of what I’m talking about.

Going with this, if they want to do an “Art gets away” cliffhanger…it would just be Art getting out of his costume and makeup dressing in mundane clothes and blending into a crowd.

6. If Allie’s alive...it’ll be a “Be Careful What You Wish For” twist.

Allie has become a popular supporting character, even with (and partially because) of her infamous “death” scene. So much so, a portion fanbase wants her to come back in the third movie.

And to be fair, we don’t see her expire…

But there’s a catch. In the first Terrifier, Vicky survives Art’s attack and is left mutilated and disfigured. In the original Terrifier short, Art purposefully keeps a victim alive and heavily mutilated for his amusement.

What I’m getting at is if Allie is still alive after all of that…we can only expect her to be in this miserable state, left heavily mutilated and disfigured from Art’s attack.

If this goes for the hospital route, Sienna may pay her a visit, and the scene may be played as a Tear Jerker; practically nudging at the audience saying “Well, you wanted her alive! Are you happy ?”

And that’s not counting the possibility of Art or one of his demonic partners tormenting a hospitalized Allie throughout.

One upside I can see is, if Sienna is gaining angelic powers…angels are often depicted as having this power to heal others.

Now, I’m not saying I see Sienna magically restoring Allie’s body and undoing her mutilation…but maybe a scene where she takes Allie’s physical pain away, and causes Allie to feel an uncontrollable rush of happiness/relief.

Not sure if I can see Damien Leone doing something this hopeful, but it’d be nice to see. I was listening to Robbie Williams’ “Angels” when I wrote this part down.

[prettylittlepsycho03]

I hope everyone has a wonderful Samhain.

Here's last year's costume:

Morticia Addams

This year I was Addy from NCIS and Harley Quinn from The Birds of Prey. (I don't have photos of these)

[thisnoise]

Cruel be the wind as it quells my words, I shout out to the rain.

[the-clownery]

anyone remember that one scene in all hollows eve were the woman walks into the room to find Art on the floor chowing down on the gasstation employee Then looks up at her and starts slowly crawling towards her with that grin of his ? 👉👈😳

[chloerie]

Yess

Also if anyone wants to see my fam's decos for it just @ me or send me an ask :D

[lightninginmyskin]

Klaus says I should stay inside for Halloween just in case, but I'm going to sneak out anyway while he's at his classes. What should I do to get the full Halloween experience?

[chloerie]

Happy Halloween eve I don’t have a holloween costume

Thinking of a Taylor one

[hellahorrorpod]

Que Sho?! Art is creepy AF. No joke. The 1st story was nutty: monsters, demons, & birth of the antichrist. Ya, these foos went there. Then they end the movie with two kids' heads in a bed & Art mime-laughing. Str8 Ioco! 🧟‍♂️🪅 #hellahorrorpodcast #Arttheclown #allhallowseve

[truegeorge]

I Took a Job in a Cemetery

All right, I was encouraged to do a scary story for All Hollows Eve aka Halloween. Couldn’t think of one at the top of my head. Lately I have too many distractions to think of writing another story. But I guess that will happen soon enough. In the meantime, I came across this channel a few months ago called “Lighthouse Horrors.” The dude has some pretty good horror stories.  This one is a good…

[aneverlastinghalloween]

[CoyotePrinceArt]

[everescened]

[lionofchaeronea]

What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path! (frontispiece from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Frederick Simpson Coburn, 1899