#Kristy 2014

[graythursday]

haley bennett in kristy (2014)

[hannahwatcheshorror]

KRISTY (2014) + REWATCH

😿Dog Dies💁‍♀️Strong Female Lead

Stars a Jennifer Lawrence looking motherf***er. Classic scheme of people murdering others and posting videos online (dark web). Awesome Hunter becomes the hunted scenes. You can tell the anguish of the protagonist throughout every event, even when she has the upper hand. The entire pool scene is absolutely amazing. The after credits scene was just stupid but hopefully enough people closed out before that. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

REWATCH REVIEW

I really enjoyed rewatching this, it is a lot of fun even if you remember some parts. I found myself looking forward to scenes and that movie held up well. This film is a lot of fun, I always love a “hunted becomes the hunter” story, especially with a strong female lead. Reminds me of You’re Next but with more Satan (so I guess Ready or Not?)

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Hard working college student, Justine, is targeted by a killer cult. After being pushed past the brink, the hunted turns hunter as this thrilling horror unfolds.

“Justine is dead. My name is Kristy.”

REWATCH REVIEW

All alone during Thanksgiving break, hard working college student, Justine, is mistaken by a killer cult as some blessed child of God when all she was trying to do was drown her loneliness in a pint of Ben & Jerry’s. The adults are extremely incapable in this movie (and one of them was Keith from Six Feet Under!) but I don’t fully know how or why, I get that they were surprised but, still, they are quickly and quietly disposed of and it is up to our Final Girl, Justine, to stop her would-be killers. 

What I love about this movie is that they appear to have blown all their budget on getting the empty college set so the bad guys had to wear homemade tinfoil masks which made me think this movie was low budget but it is a 6.9 million dollar movie. Wack. But seriously when I thought this was a low budget indie film I liked it a lot more than when I knew it was funded out the ass. This is a good movie but certainly not perfect. 

My understanding of why the cult nicknames their victims Kristy is because it is a shortening of Christ or like his chosen one or something, the name of their game is all to upset God and yes, it is a game to them. Justine assumes the role of Kristy and takes on her attackers after they kill her boyfriend and she shows very little mercy. This film isn’t really plot heavy it just kind of goes from location to location and kill to kill but it sure is a lot of fun. Each scene feels purposeful in our heroine's journey through the night. “Justine is dead. My name is Kristy.” Damn right, girl, you don’t just murder four (4) people and not change a little bit. A worthy film for the genre.

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[luvbecca222]

beabadoobee core

[editfandom]

Molly Hartley - The Haunting Of Molly Hartley, 2008

[graylinguine]

justine wills icons 📚🏊🏻‍♀️🔪

like if you save

[wutbju]

In 2014, BJU dorm girls walked to Krispy Kreme for talk-like-a-pirate day. 

[graythursday]

thinking about her

[justineportraits]

Kristy Gordon Star Child 2014

[wheel-of-fish]

Phantom acting choices (1/?)

I've been going through the (literal thousands of) gifs I've made, and there are so many little moments from the show that I'd forgotten about! I'm having fun revisiting them and thought I might as well post some in installments—just choices I found particularly unique, funny, interesting, tender, potentially illegal, etc.

Ian Jon Bourg (Hamburg, 2001)

Michael Crawford (with Mary D'Arcy, Los Angeles, 1990)

Tim Martin Gleason (with Trista Moldovan, U.S. Tour, 2010)

Brent Barrett (Oberhausen, 2016)

David Arnsperger (Hamburg, 2014)

Anthony Crivello (with Andrew Ragone and Kristi Holden, Las Vegas, 2008)

Davis Gaines (with Marie Danvers, Los Angeles, 1998)

John Cudia (with Jennifer Hope Wills, U.S. Tour, 2006)

Would also like to do some for Christine and Raoul actors, eventually!

[greensparty]

Remembering Shane MacGowan 1957-2023

Irish singer Shane MacGowan has died at 65. He co-founded The Pogues in 1982. After getting kicked out in 1991, he re-joined in 2001 and was with them until their end in 2014. He also had Shane MacGowan and The Popes, as well as solo work and collaborations with Nick Cave, Sinead O'Connor, and Dropkick Murphys.

The Pogues and Kristy MacColl's 1987 song "Fairytale in New York" is a holiday song I listen to every year as it's on multiple compilation albums. It was even featured in last year's Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. I named The Pogues one of my Honorable Mentions for Best Irish Rockers of All-Time.

The link above is a list from Rolling Stone of his 15 essential songs with embedded videos.

[deadpresidents]

Hi there!

Do you have any good book recs for first and second ladies?

I started to answer that I don't think I have that many books just about First Ladies, but then I started looking at my bookshelves and found WAY more books than I realized I had and have read about First Ladies!

•The First Ladies Fact Book: Revised and Updated: The Childhoods, Courtships, Marriages, Campaigns, Accomplishments, and Legacies of Every First Lady from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama (BOOK | KINDLE) by Bill Harris and Laura Ross [2012] This is a great reference book to have nearby if you ever need something like that about First Ladies or First Families. It's definitely come in handy for me a few times over the years.

•Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Amy S. Greenberg [2019]

•Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Lisa McCubbin [2018]

•Becoming (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Michelle Obama [2018]

•Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Rebecca Boggs Roberts [2023]

•Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies (BOOK | KINDLE) by Kristie Miller [2010]

•What Happened (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Hillary Rodham Clinton [2017]

•The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Eleanor Roosevelt [2014/Originally published in 1961]

•No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Doris Kearns Goodwin [1994]

•Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Susan Quinn [2016]

•The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Susan Page [2019]

•The Triumph of Nancy Reagan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Karen Tumulty [2021]

•First Family: Abigail and John Adams (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Joseph J. Ellis [2010]

•Crowns of Thorns and Glory: Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis: The Two First Ladies of the Civil War (BOOK) by Gerry Van der Heuvel [1988]

•Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President (BOOK) by Carl Sferrazza Anthony [1998]

•Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy: Interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1964 (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Jacqueline Kennedy and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., edited and annotated by Michael Beschloss [2011]

•First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women (BOOK | KINDLE) by Susan Swain and C-SPAN [2015]

•First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Kate Andersen Brower [2016]

•Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Jan Jarboe Russell [1999]

•Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Betty Boyd Caroli [2015]

•A White House Diary (BOOK) by Lady Bird Johnson [1970]

•Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Michael L. Gillette [2012]

•Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Julia Sweig [2021]

[emilyskinners]

is this more of a hypothetical question than a literal? yeah. but if i ever WERE to do so, it would definitely take a while

[graylinguine]

justine wills icons 📚🏊🏻‍♀️🔪

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[april-is]

April 21, 2024: April Morning, Jonathan Wells

April Morning Jonathan Wells You are living the life you wanted as if you'd known what that was but of course you didn't so you'd groped toward it feeling for what you couldn't imagine, what your hands couldn't tell you, for what that shape could be.

This Sunday the rain turns cold again and steady but the window is slightly open and there is the vaguest sense of bird song somewhere in the gaps between the buildings because it's spring the calendar says and the room where you are reading is empty yet full of what loves you and this is the day that you were born.

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Today in:

2023: What I Did Wrong, Marie Howe 2022: This Morning, Jay Wright 2021: Kiss of the Sun, Mary Ruefle 2020: Teaching English from an Old Composition Book, Gary Soto 2019: Easter, Jill Alexander Essbaum 2018: Annunciation, Marie Howe 2017: The Promise, Marie Howe 2016: In the Woods, Kathryn Simmonds 2015: Heat, Jane Hirshfield 2014: What Remains, Ellery Akers 2013: 30th Birthday, Alice Notley 2012: Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life], Bruce Smith 2011: The Forties, Franz Wright 2010: Prayer of the Backhanded, Jericho Brown 2009: A Primer, Bob Hicok 2008: Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry, Howard Nemerov 2007: Open Letter to the Muse, Kristy Bowen 2006: A Sad Child, Margaret Atwood 2005: The Crunch, Charles Bukowski

[flowersintheimpala69]

have you seen either of the flowers in the attic movies and if you have what do you think of them?

(sorry for the late reply)

i have seen both!! but tbh i didn't really like either of the movies :(

if i HAD to choose which one I preferred i'd probably pick 2014, but both versions made too many changes to the book imo.

1978 was a wreck. i remember watching the entire 1 hour 30 minutes of the 1987 version waiting for the incest to happen and it just. never happened. which is like,, the incest theme is a huge part of the story you can't just cut that out?? probably the only time I finished a movie and was disappointed the siblings didn't fuck.

I also just did not like the casting for 1978!! Kristy Swanson and Jeb Stuart Adams looked too old to be Cathy (12) and Chris (14). I think having Chris and Cathy aged up takes a bit away from the horror and was just a weird choice. also no disrespect to either Kristy or Jeb but they did an extremely mediocre acting job lol,, I will so though I thought Kristy, if a bit younger, looked exactly how I would have imagined Cathy be

2014 at least stayed faithful to the cathy + chris "romance", although they took out the blood drinking and penis measuring!! wtf!! an angel lost its wings

2014 also changed the scene where chris rapes cathy which tbh I think I actually sort of appreciated?? I feel like on one hand it takes away from the grittiness and horror and changes Chris's characterization a bit but i also did always think it was weird that in the book chris rapes cathy and right after cathy is being all lovey-dovey with him so the change in the movie made it make a bit more sense?? ig?? i hv mixed feelings

the 2014 casting was,,, okay i guess. it was better than the 1987 casting at least. I thought Kiernan Shipka was def the wrong choice for Cathy, but Mason Dye did a good (enough) job as Chris.

thank u for the ask!! <3