#Mr Hallow (Midnight Horrors)

[kingollyorigami]

Forgot to post but I doodled mr hallow [and death metal] and such yesterday backflip

[afeatherypileofjunk]

Hi MH community how are ya

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[moxfirefly]

So @teenage-mutant-ninja-freak wanted some Halloween headcanon’s for the lads, so let’s hop to it for one of my faves on here!

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• our resident violent teddy bear is pretty neutral when it comes to old hallows eve, he does in fact enjoy the candy

• speaking of candy, will eat pretty much anything even try out that obscure shit nobody likes

• he does also LOVE when you feed him said candies

• will show up at your window and say “trick or treat” with the most cocky grin

• say Treat and he’s gonna give you the MOST SENSOUS SMOOCH

• say Trick, he’s gonna steal a kiss

• send him pics of you modeling potential costumes

• the skimpier the better

• will lowkey Windows Shutdown if you dress up as a boxer. The shorts, the sports bra, the gloves, the whole shebang. rapahael.exe has crashed.

• prefers cheesy horror movies think: Army of Darkness, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy’s Dead etc

• if he could give out candy he’d def be the guy who high fives the kids and gasses them up and addresses them by their characters

• “oh heck Batman! You better get back to Gotham!”

• oh he’s also the guy who would give out extra candy to the kids

• pumpkin carving king

• Mikey loves scaring the shit out of him

• he claims he was ‘merely startled’

• won’t dress up, will be moody while having a pair of cat ears on his head that you insist upon because Dammit Raph we are all taking this picture and you are participating somehow

• Halloween Lover™️

• honestly our resident nunchuck bean loves all things spooky

• loves watching the NYC Halloween parade

• loves watching shows, movies, videos anything regarding to it

• will dress up

• will eat ALL THE CHOCOLATE PLS HIDE IT FROM HIM

• has defenatly said that famous “they are coming to get you Barbara” line, it’s drives Raph up the wall

• decorates the lair starting September honestly

• resident scare champion, seriously he has snuck up on Leonardo

• Halloween baking goods, join him this boy will feed you well

• will o.d on sugar cookies

• dress up as his fave superhero or game character, expect heart eyes all day and lots of handsy caresses, this boy will gas you up so much (he already does on the regular)

• cheesy horror films but he’s surprisingly high key into the Based on True Events ones. Think: The Conjuring, Blair Witch Project, Exorcism of Emily Rose, etc

• boy gets extra frisky on Halloween night

• will want to try and get into a party with you

• but if case not be he will throw a rager in the lair with the bros, you and the close friends

• y’all banging while a horror movie plays in the background

• “man if we were in that lake, that pissed of goalie would so kill us”

• “Mikey focus”

• “shit my bad, babe”

• Our blue boy enjoys Halloween surprisingly enough

• has to be forced into the party tho

• will end up having fun

• but will micro manage because Virgo™️

• actually won’t complain if asked to dress up

• sour candy lover

• old school horror movie lover: White Zombie, House on Haunted Hill, Dr Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, Creature of the black lagoon

• absolutely loves when you hide against his arm, he will purposefully find the goriest movies just so you could watch it basically buried on his chest

• humors Mikey because Big Brother Duties™️ so he helps decorate no matter how absurd it gets

• speaking of brotherly love 🥺 they love Hocus Pocus and watch it together every year cause Danny and Max reminds them of their relationship

• this precious brainiac loves Halloween perhaps rivaling Mikey

• he loves ghost stories, loves reading up on crimes and crazy events that happened around the time

• spooky podcast play all month long

• spooky playlist plays as well

• from old school Monster Mash style to more modern takes like Black No. 1

• will eat everything Mikey bakes, boys got a sweet tooth

• bring him seasonal coffee and he’s forever in your debt

• send him your Halloween costume idea, this lad will even help you MAKE it like legit even better than store bought

• Sci-Fi/Horror/Suspense/Psychological lover: It Follows, Predator, Alien Resurrection, Heredetary, Event Horizon, Splice, Martyrs, Suspiria, etc

• knows little know facts about certain scenes and effects

• “Did you know how many gallons of fake blood that took to make? Speaking off did you know you can make fake blood out of-“ Cue you screaming bloody murder at a graphic kill

• Resident DJ at the party (I have this headcanon that Donnie likes to make beats, remixes on his spare time when he needs to take a break from a project) Mikey says his transitions are so satisfyingly smooth

• Happily dresses up, begrudgingly helps his brothers with their costumes. They get so diva about it to a point where he’ll just mutter about not being on fucking Project Runway stop horsing around while wearing it of course it’ll tear!

• referees the games

• disqualifies Raphael almost every time

• once put on Halloween special effects noises

• splinter thought they were being attacked

• scared shitless of horror stuff? Let this adorable boyfriend of yours explain why “it’s illogical that a burned demon man in a striped sweater will invade your dreams and kill you my love....Now the monthman though-“

• “DONATELLO WE TALKED ABOUT THIS”

• “No conspiracy theories after midnight yes my apologies”

• once left a fake bug on Raph’s bed, spent the entire afternoon in a headlock

• Donnie and Raph actually spend time playing horror games though. Raph likes to play commentator. “Told ya that door was suspicious genius, but by all means get killed again” Cue Donnie rolling his eyes for the tenth time

• Loves seeing you all dressed up, especially if you dress up as a character he loves like Ripley from Alien.

[thehalloweenhub]

You'll get chills and thrills from this list of halloween episodes, specials, and movies.

Halloween Themed Episodes/Specials:

Dawson's Creek "Escape From Witch Island"

My So Called Life "Halloween"

Riverdale "Chapter Sixty-One: Halloween"

Degrassi "The Curse of Degrassi"

Freaks & Geeks "Tricks And Treats"

Family Matters "Dark And Stormy Night"

American Horror Story: Murder House "Halloween, Part 1"

American Horror Story: Murder House "Halloween, Part 2"

American Horror Story: Asylum "Tricks and Treats"

The Vampire Diaries "Haunted"

The Vampire Diaries "Monster's Ball"

The Vampire Diaries "Masquerade"

Black-ish "The Purge"

Stranger Things "Trick or Treat, Freak"

Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Fear, Itself"

Beverly Hills, 90210 "Halloween"

Clueless "Scream Murray Scream Part One"

Clueless "Scream Murray Scream Part Two"

Urban/African American Films:

Bones (2001)

Vampire In Brooklyn (1995)

Somebody Help Me (2007)

Blade (1998)

The Wiz (1978)

Tales From The Hood (1995)

Def by Temptation (1990)

Horror Films:

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Cherry Falls (2000)

Ice Cream Man (1995)

House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (2019)

Hell Fest (2018)

Trick R' Treat (2007)

All Hallow's Eve (2013)

Clown (2014)

Spooky/Creepy Episodes:

Dawson's Creek "Four Scary Stories"

Riverdale "Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club"

Riverdale "Chapter Fifty-Four: Fear The Reaper"

Riverdale "Chapter Fifty-Seven: Survive The Night"

Riverdale "Chapter Seventy-Six: Killing Mr. Honey"

The Haunting of Hill House "The Bent-Neck House"

Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Hush"

Masters of Horror "Dance of the Dead"

Twin Peaks "Lonely Souls"

Black Mirror "Playtest"

Supernatural "Everybody Loves A Clown"

The Twilight Zone "Living Doll"

Hammer House of Horror "The House That Bled To Death"

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina "Dreams In A Witch House"

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina "Drag Me To Hell"

Atlanta "Teddy Perkins"

American Horror Story: Asylum "Welcome To Briarcliff"

American Horror Story: Freakshow "Monsters Among Us"

American Horror Story: Cult "Election Night"

American Horror Story: Cult "Neighbors From Hell"

80s Films:

Little Monsters (1989)

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

Hell Night (1981)

The Midnight Hour (1985)

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

Weird Science (1985)

The New York Ripper (1982)

Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

The Boogeyman (1980)

Family & Children Halloween Movies & Shows:

Henry Danger "Danger Things"

Step by Step "Nightmare Weekend"

Kenan & Kel "Two Heads Are Better Than None"

The Proud Family "A Hero For Halloween"

Nickelodeon's Ultimate Halloween Haunted House

The Haunting Hour Don't Think About It (2007)

Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)

The Monster Squad (1987)

Mostly Ghostly (2007)

Scary Godmother (2004)

Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy (2007)

Action, Suspense & Thriller Films (Perfect For Halloween):

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Live Special (2016)

Ghost Rider (2007)

Plush (2013)

Batman Forever (1995)

Batman & Robin (1997)

Slither (2006)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Dark Shadows (2012)

Queen of the Damned (2002)

Soul Survivors (2001)

Hush (2016)

Vintage/Classic Films & Episodes:

Salem's Lot (1979)

Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

Nightmare Castle (1965)

Blacula (1972)

The Haunted Palace (1963)

From Beyond The Grave (1974)

Bewitched. "The Witches Are Out"

Bewitched "Trick or Treat"

The Munsters "Munster Masquerade"

The Brady Bunch "Fright Night"

The Addams Family "Halloween, Addams Style"

[dzmoot]

It’s been several months since Igginsworth’s departure back to Ippicus and although the Tuuns miss him dearly, they aren’t about to let it spoil the celebration of their favorite holiday, All Hallows’ Eve. It will be a Halloween like no other as the Tuuns can finally trick or treat for actual candy instead of the horrid moonrock cookies they get every year, and they can hardly wait to attend Mitchell Manhee’s Midnight Monster Mash. But they very well might have something more spooktacular in store for them, something that will make their flesh crawl and their blood pressures soar to galactic heights! 

Halloween on Namasis was just like the Halloweens of Earth. Tuuns dressed as something they weren’t and went all over the entirety of Inkwell Village, expecting passer outers to throw niblets of sugar into their pales or crudely knitted bags. For our gallant Resisters, who probably loved Halloween more than any other entity in our known realm, they started prepping for it weeks in advance. While they went out to collect goodies on that cool night (which believe it or not had a tendency to be the coldest Namasis has ever been), they placed a festively dressed scary straw man in front of their home to hand out the treats to the trick or treaters. Siobhan came up with a clever name for him, Hay Leno. 

Hampire was responsible for conjuring up the costumes he and his comrades would wear. This year, his attire of choice was a cowboy outfit, although he was out of a horse to ride on. Kruonch, who had been reading Hampire’s book on dry bones decided to go as a skeleton. To the shock of Siobhan and the others, he even shaved his beard so it wouldn’t droop under his mask. Everyone was so shocked and horrified by his clean shaven look that he was forced to wear the mask several days in advance. Siobhan dressed as a traditional wicked witch, although the potion she had to drink to temporarily change her skin green and her hair red tasted like bad fish tank water. As for Zappy, he didn’t even need Hampire to make him a costume, for he had one already in his possession. You see, Zappy was a part time crime fighter called “Zap Man” and his imposing costume was enough to invoke the spookish delight ideal for Halloween. They were all ready for the big night and they would be accompanied on their Halloween rounds by two of Namasis’ most foolish ghoulish fellows, Mitchell Manhees and Joachim Jerboa. 

Well into the evening, the Tuuns conjured enough goodies to open their own candy store. Siobhan was anxious to get home, dump it all out and eat every morsel. 

Diabetesville, here I come! 

Kruonch told his daughter that she would gradually eat some of her candy every evening after dinner until it was gone as Zappy pointed in the direction of a nearby house on a hill. 

Look guys, it’s the Hitchcock Hillhouse! Legend has it that our alternate universe counterparts from Razlaobo dwell in that house! 

Everyone let out an array of emotions, from gasps to grumbles to giggles. Kruonch assured Zappy it was just a bunch of hocus pocus. 

Oh Zap Man, everybody knows it’s a pot of hooey! Our mirror dimensions selves are dead! The Confectoons defeated them 5 years ago! 

Mitchell muttered something through his mask, but just like everything he said, it was all jumbled and hard to understand. Joachim rolled his eyes and interjected. 

I don’t think so you schmucks! Mitch and I have heard demented noises up there for years. Something’s gotta be lurking in that place! 

A great fangy smile came over Hampire’s face. 

Let’s go in! 

Mitchell started squabbling heavily through his mask as everyone stood around him trying to make out his sentences! Once again, Kruonch protested.

Now I’m telling you varmints, there are no Darkies up there in that house! You’re all high on lunar smarties! 

Siobhan tugged on the sleeve of her father’s costume. 

What’s the matter daddy, are you chicken nuggies? 

Kruonch tripped over his tongue collecting words. 

Well, I, I’m no nuggy honey, I’m just, well, I don’t...

Hampire used an unlocking spell to open the gateway and they all made their way up the stone walkway. With a small tap, Zappy rang the doorbell and within seconds, a strange reptilian gentleman arrived accompanied by a see through spectral dog. His voice sounded like Kermit the Frog with strep throat.

You rang? 

Mitchell stepped forward and started introducing everyone, but as the gentleman turned his head in confusion at the muffled words, he was swiftly pushed aside as Zappy stepped forward. 

I’m Zap Man! These are my companions, Buffalo Bacon Belly, Margaret Hamilton, Mr. Baggaboanz, Mouserabbit and the unintelligible hockey guy. 

The lizard man gave a sinister smile. 

I am Lizardton Longleggs the 5th. This is my dog, Zilch. Why do you bother us at our humble home this evening? 

Before Zappy could continue, Kruonch pushed him out of the way. 

Sorry to bother you Mr. Lizzyton

Lizardton interrupted and his face expanded to that of a t-rex.

IT’S LIZARDTON LONGLEGGS YOU STRAWBERRY SKINNED BAFFOON! 

And just like that, Kruonch felt as if he shrunk to the same height as Siobhan. 

I’m so terribly sorry. You see, it’s Halloween and we were treat or tricking and my friends insisted we come up here to see these Darkies that I know aren’t really here but we still came up here anyway and now I’m waiting for you to tell them that they are indeed not here so we can leave this dreadful place and they can realize what a ginormous waste of time this whole thing was...

Lizardton interrupted again. He was sinisterly staring directly at everyone besides Kruonch.

Let me get this straight. You believe the Darkies are living in this house?

Zappy, Siobhan, Hampire, Mitchell and Joachim all shook their heads up and down. And the dapper Lizardton slowly found his lips trembling and his chest filling up with giggle fluid. Then he let it out, a laugh as loud and as potent as that of a clown killer whale. 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

After a moment or two, Lizardton composed himself and went back to his stoney face. 

You fools! You all thought the Darkies were still here?! 

Kruonch started laughing himself as he looked down at his friends. 

I told you foolies! The Darkies are dead! Now let’s get movin...

But Lizardton continued. 

Of course they’re dead, you pink Pinocchio nosed ping pong for brains! But they’re not here. They went to a Halloween party across town. And look, here they come now!  

Kruonch looked over his shoulder as everyone turned around shortly therefore. 

Look, it’s the Resisters! After all this time! We’ve been DYING to meet you! We hope you’ve been DYING to meet us! 

From inside the house, the corpse of the evil Igginsworth started cackling maniacally. Zappy quickly drew a zapperang from his belt and Mitchell manned his machete and knife glove to strike. But before he could slash, the masked coward sprung into the air and Hampire’s evil doppleganger eradicated him with a slap of his hand. He crumbled away to ash before everyone’s eyes and Zappy was soon after slashed to salami by his evil clone’s cybernetic arm claws. With Zappy and Mitchell dead, an enraged Hampire began hurling spell after spell after spell at the evil ones. 

You who have killed my friends shall see soon your horrible ends! Avada Kedav... 

And just like that, Hampire's head was bitten off by the sentient head on the evil Kruonch’s nose. Only Joachim, Siobhan and Kruonch remained. Joachim tried jumping on every Darky and beating the snot out of them, but the evil Siobhan gassed him to death with her deadly night shade, garlic smelling bad breath. Kruonch put Siobhan on his back as they started to run towards their home. Kruonch looked behind him to see, to his relief that the Darkies were gone. As he made his way into the house and locked the door, he noticed that Siobhan was gone! As he looked around in a frenzy, his nose protruded from his skull mask and to his horror, the decapitated head of Siobhan, equipped with a candle embedded in it’s mouth was hurled at Kruonch as he saw that all the Darkies combined to make a super scarific, ultra terrifying hairy hare vampire Darky from hell! Before Kruonch knew it, he....

woke up from his horrible nightmare. Still clad in his skeleton costume, he looked over to see Siobhan and the others rummaging through their candy collections. Siobhan jumped onto her father’s exasperated lap. 

And you tell me not to eat all my candy in one sitting. You ate so many malt balls, it’s funny your brain didn’t burst. 

Kruonch began rubbing his head. 

My brain didn’t explode, but I did have one rascal of a nightmare! 

Nearby, Mitchell, in his chef attire was preparing the special stew for his Midnight Monster Mash. 

Dubber, dubber, turr and trurber. Herper, berg me der perper! 

Hampire approached with a shaker of lunar pepper for taste as he shook his head in disgust. 

A Halloween nightmare. How original! 

As he walked away, he began scratching the metal clamps around his neck. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 

[stainedglassgardens]

Favourite films watched in 2018

I arranged them into broad categories -- other than that they’re in no particular order.

Indie

River of Grass, Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 1994, 2010 and 2013)

Tangerine and The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2015 and 2017)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)

Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner, 2014)

Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter, 2012)

Cracks (Jordan Scott, 2009)

I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017)

Turn the River (Chris Eigeman, 2007)

Hello I Must Be Going (Todd Louiso, 2012)

Shuttle Life (Tan Seng Kiat, 2017)

On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről, Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi, Agnès Varda, 1984)

Easy Living (Adam Keleman, 2017)

Mother of George (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)

Khadak (Peter Brosens and Jessica Hope Woodworth, 2006)

Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)

Comedy

Lipstick Under My Burkha (Alankrita Shrivastava, 2016)

Addicted to Fresno (Jamie Babbit, 2015)

The Spy Who Dumped Me (Susanna Fogel, 2018)

Edge of Seventeen (David Moreton, 1998)

Secretary (Steven Shainberg, 2002)

Experimental

Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963)

Always Shine (Sophia Takal, 2016)

The Midnight Swim (Sarah Adina Smith, 2014)

La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

Daisies (Sedmikrásky, Věra Chytilová, 1966)

Classics

Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, 1967)

Dead Ringer (Paul Henreid, 1964)

Horror

Creep and Creep 2 (Patrick Brice, 2014 and 2017)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes and As Above, So Below (John Erick Dowdle, 2007 and 2014)

Raw (Grave, Julia Ducournau, 2016)

Cargo (Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, 2017)

Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005)

Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011)

Banshee Chapter (Blair Erickson, 2013)

Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)

Science fiction

Primer and  Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2004 and 2013)

Resolution and The Endless (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2012 and 2017)

Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016)

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)

Into the Forest (Patricia Rozema, 2015)

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)

Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)

Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)

Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)

Action

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016)

M.F.A. (Natalia Leite, 2017)

Revenge (Coralie Fargeat, 2017)

Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)

Full list of 306 films watched in 2018 under the cut!

January

The Devil’s Candy (Sean Byrne, 2015)

A United Kingdom (Amma Asante, 2016)

Creep (Patrick Brice, 2014)

The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)

The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)

The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)

Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016)

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)

Life (Daniel Espinosa, 2017)

Logan (James Mangold, 2017)

Creep 2 (Patrick Brice, 2017)

The Discovery (Charlie McDowell, 2017)

Otherlife (Ben C. Lucas, 2017)

The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2015)

Bokeh (Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan , 2017)

February

Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)

The Handmaiden (아가씨, Agassi, Park Chan-wook, 2016)

Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)

Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)

Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)

Thelma (Joachim Trier, 2017)

The Guest (Adam Wingard, 2014)

Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman, 2017)

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in, Tomas Alfredson, 2008)

Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)

Sweet Bean (あん, An, Naomi Kawase, 2015)

The Hallow (Corin Hardy, 2015)

Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)

10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)

The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah, 2018)

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)

Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011)

Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)

River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994)

Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)

Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, 1967)

March

Raw (Grave, Julia Ducournau, 2016)

Palo Alto (Gia Coppola, 2013)

By the Sea (Angelina Jolie, 2015)

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)

Jupiter Ascending (The Wachowskis, 2015)

Irreplaceable You (Stephanie Laing, 2018)

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner, 2014)

Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)

Ravenous (Les Affamés, Robin Aubert, 2017)

The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2016)

Notes on Blindness (Peter Middleton and James Spinney, 2016)

Breathe (Respire, Mélanie Laurent, 2014)

Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)

Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)

Lovesong (So Yong Kim, 2016)

Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)

April

ARQ (Tony Elliott, 2016)

Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)

Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)

Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)

American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)

Maurice (James Ivory, 1987)

The Silent House (La Casa Muda, Gustavo Hernández, 2010)

Viral (Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, 2016)

Buster’s Mal Heart (Sarah Adina Smith, 2016)

Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007)

Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysle, 1975)

Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter, 2012)

Cracks (Jordan Scott, 2009)

Into the Forest (Patricia Rozema, 2015)

A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017)

Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983)

The Violent Years (William Morgan, 1956)

The Ritual (David Bruckner, 2017)

Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green, 2017)

Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins, 1998)

We’ve Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew (Thomas Woodrow, 2017)

Love and Other Cults (Kemonomichi, Eiji Uchida, 2017)

You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay, 2017)

Shirley: Visions of Reality (Gustav Deutsch, 2013)

Catfight (Onur Tuckel, 2017)

Pyewacket (Adam MacDonald, 2017)

May

Lick the Star (Sofia Coppola, 1998)

Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963)

Novitiate (Maggie Betts, 2017)

The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Hymyilevä mies, Juho Kuosmanen, 2016)

Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, 1947)

Human Flow (Ai Weiwei, 2017)

Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989)

Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison, 2016)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)

I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017)

Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnès Varda, 1962)

Orbiter 9 (Órbita 9, Hatem Khraiche, 2017)

M.F.A. (Natalia Leite, 2017)

Lipstick Under My Burkha (Alankrita Shrivastava, 2016)

Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2016)

Deidra and Laney Rob a Train (Sydney Freeland, 2017)

The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1932)

Girl Asleep (Rosemary Myers, 2015)

Always Shine (Sophia Takal, 2016)

The Monster (Bryan Bertino, 2016)

Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1985)

Addicted to Fresno (Jamie Babbit, 2015)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)

The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015)

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016)

The Midnight Swim (Sarah Adina Smith, 2014)

The Quiet Hour (Stéphanie Joalland, 2014)

Synchronicity (Jacob Gentry, 2015)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)

Pod (Mickey Keating, 2015)

Turn the River (Chris Eigeman, 2007)

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)

Frequencies (Darren Paul Fisher, 2013)

Spring (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2014)

Time Lapse (Bradley D. King, 2014)

Meet Me There (Lex Lybrand, 2014)

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)

The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)

Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)

Laggies (Lynn Shelton, 2014)

Starlet (Sean Baker, 2012)

Dead Ringer (Paul Henreid, 1964)

The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995)

The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig, 2014)

Berlin Syndrome (Cate Shortland, 2017)

Dude (Olivia Milch, 2018)

Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)

June

Hello I Must Be Going (Todd Louiso, 2012)

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin, 1997)

Mystery Road (Ivan Sen, 2013)

The Double (Richard Ayoade, 2013)

Dear White People (Justin Simien, 2014)

The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard, 2013)

Don’t Breathe (Fede Álvarez, 2016)

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present (Matthew Akers, 2012)

Hot Bot (Michael Polish, 2016)

Beneath the Harvest Sky (Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, 2013)

Tim’s Vermeer (Teller, 2013)

The Firefly (La Luciérnaga, Ana Maria Hermida, 2015)

Twinsters (Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto, 2015)

Resolution (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2012)

Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)

Mother of George (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)

We Are What We Are (Jim Mickle, 2013)

The Battery (Jeremy Gardner, 2012)

Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus (Sebastián Silva , 2013)

Boy (Taika Waititi,2010)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Steven Chbosky, 2012)

White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki, 2014)

The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010)

Ocean’s Eight (Gary Ross, 2018)

Compliance (Craig Zobel, 2012)

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Lorene Scafaria, 2012)

Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011)

Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)

July

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011)

Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow, 2012)

Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005)

Duck Butter (Miguel Arteta, 2018)

The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)

Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)

Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)

Woodshock (Kate and Laura Mulleavy, 2017)

Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)

Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011)

Aloft (Claudia Llosa, 2014)

A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica, Sebastián Lelio, 2017)

The Feels (Jenée LaMarque, 2017)

The Endless (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2017)

Shuttle Life (Tan Seng Kiat, 2017)

I Origins (Mike Cahill, 2014)

The Taking of Deborah Logan (Adam Robitel, 2014)

Chasing Ice (Jeff Orlowski, 2012)

Manchester By the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)

The Bar (El Bar, Álex de la Iglesia, 2017)

Mr. Roosevelt (Noël Wells, 2017)

Woman Walks Ahead (Susanna White, 2017)

The Manual (William Magness, 2017)

The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013)

Oculus (Mike Flanagan, 2013)

The Eye (Pang brothers, 2002)

August

The Overnight (Peter Brice, 2015)

Axolotl Overkill (Helene Hegemann, 2017)

Little Sister (Zach Clark, 2016)

Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968)

Secretary (Steven Shainberg, 2002)

The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)

The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983)

They (Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, 2017)

Revenge (Coralie Fargeat, 2017)

Cargo (Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, 2017)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982)

Radius (Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard, 2017)

17 Girls (17 Filles, Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin, 2011)

The Deuce of Spades (Faith Granger, 2011)

The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson, 2008)

La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

Train to Busan  (부산행, Busanhaeng, Yeon Sang-ho, 2016)

As Above, So Below (John Erick Dowdle, 2014)

Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)

Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi, 1999)

Multiple Maniacs (John Waters, 1970)

The Lifeguard (Liz W. Garcia, 2013)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, 1964)

The Beales of Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Ian Markiewicz, 2006)

The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2016)

Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)

Easy Living (Adam Keleman, 2017)

Going Back (Adam Keleman, 2010)

A Series of Acts (Adam Keleman, 2006)

Long Days (Adam Keleman, 2012)

Okja (Bong Joon-ho, 2017)

Before I Fall (Ry Russo-Young, 2017)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes (John Erick Dowdle, 2007)

Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)

Three Colours: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)

Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)

Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1932)

Khadak (Peter Brosens and Jessica Hope Woodworth, 2006)

The Lure (Córki dancingu, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2015)

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi, Agnès Varda, 1984)

Little Evil (Eli Craig, 2017)

September

The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell, 1972)

Isle of Flowers (Ilha das Flores, Jorge Furtado, 1989)

Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville, 1960)

On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről, Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)

Village of the Damned (Wolf RIlla, 1960)

Tampopo (タンポポ, Tanpopo, Juzo Itami, 1985)

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015)

Outside In (Lynn Shelton, 2017)

Voyeur (Myles Kane, 2017)

The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener, 2018)

Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014)

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (Emily Ting, 2015)

Tig (Kristina Goolsby and Ashley York, 2015)

Shortwave (Ryan Phillips, 2016)

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell, 2008)

Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)

October

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (La Femme la plus assassinée du monde, Franck Ribière, 2018)

I Think We’re Alone Now (Reed Morano, 2018)

The Woman Who Left (Ang Babaeng Humayo, Lav Diaz, 2016)

The Babysitter (Brian Duffield, 2017)

The Frighteners (Peter Jackson, 1996)

Emelie (Michael Thelin, 2015)

21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2003)

Apostle (Gareth Evans, 2018)

Phantasm (Don Coscarelli, 1979)

Banshee Chapter (Blair Erickson, 2013)

Joshua (George Ratliff, 2007)

Office (오피스, Hong Won-chan, 2015)

The Nightmare (Rodney Ascher, 2015)

The Spy Who Dumped Me (Susanna Fogel, 2018)

Before I Wake (Mike Flanagan, 2016)

The Most Unknown (Ian Cheney, 2018)

Private Life (Tamara Jenkins, 2018)

Octavio is Dead! (Sook-Yin Lee, 2018)

Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018)

Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997)

Galveston (Mélanie Laurent, 2018)

Growing Up Coy (Eric Juhola, 2016)

Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)

November

Murder My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944)

Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)

Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)

Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)

Silent Light (Stellet Licht, Carlos Reygadas, 2007)

Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)

Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur, 1948)

Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006)

Angels Wear White (嘉年华, Vivian Qu, 2017)

Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)

The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray, 2003)

In the Aisles (In den Gängen, Thomas Stuber, 2018)

Edge of Seventeen (David Moreton, 1998)

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)

Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)

I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore (Macon Blair, 2017)

The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo, 1997)

Daisies (Sedmikrásky, Věra Chytilová, 1966)

Blue My Mind (Lisa Brühlmann, 2017)

December

The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (夜空はいつでも最高密度の青色だ, Yozora wa itsudemo saiko mitsudo no aoiro da, Yuya Ishii, 2017)

Michael Lost and Found (Daniel Wilner, 2017)

The Trader (Sovdagari, Tamta Gabrichidze, 2018)

Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge, 1983)

The Kindergarten Teacher (Sara Colangelo, 2018)

Everything Beautiful is Far Away (Pete Ohs and Andrea Sisson, 2017)

McQueen (Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, 2018)

Better Watch Out (Chris Peckover, 2016)

I Feel Pretty (Abby Kohn, 2018)

Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018)

A Simple Favor (Paul Feig, 2018)

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Alexandra Dean, 2017)

Grandma (Paul Weitz, 2015)

Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018)

The Man in the Wall (האיש שבקיר‎, Evgeny Ruman, 2015)

Tout ce qui brille (Géraldine Nakache and Hervé Mimran, 2010)

Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders, 1992)

Love, Cecil (Lisa Immordino Vreeland, 2018)

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2019 Movies

Rent

Kevin Smith: Silent but Deadly

Angel

The Row

Kiki’s Delivery Service 

Madea’s Witness Protection

Lessons From A School Shooting

22 July

Gehenna

Mischief Night

The Dorm That Dripped Blood

Don’t Go In The Woods Alone

My Neighbor Totoro

Sorority Babes in the Slime Ball Bowl-O-Rama

Never Sleep Again

The House With A Clock In Its Walls

The Cured

The House That Screamed

The Predator

Hell Fest

Bowfinger

A Simple Favor

Frightmare

Hardware

Buried Alive

Drive In Massacre

The Pit and The Pendulum 

Goosebumps 2

Bullet Head

Throughbreds

Pumpkin Pie Wars

What’s Love Got To Do With It

Dr. Giggles

Bad Times At the El Royale

The Mighty Ducks

D2: The Mighty Ducks

D3: The Mighty Ducks

Awake to Danger

The Hate U Give

The Seven Five

Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

Assassination Nation 

Clockwatchers

Old Enough

Suspiria (2018)

Critters

Harvest Moon

Higher Learning

Kings

The Lure

He’s Out There

When Friendship Kills

All I Wanna Do

Strange Voices

Soaked In Bleach

October Kiss

Rent: Filmed Live On Broadway

Wishmaster

The Possession of Hannah Grace

The Clovehitch Killer

Wishmaster 2

Waiting to Exhale

Killer High

The Farm

Pledge

The Wood

Poetic Justice

Parkland: Inside Building 12

Bohemian Rhapsody

My Bloody Valentine 3-D

Indian Summer

White Men Can’t Jump

Do The Right Thing

Happy Death Day 2 U

Home For The Holidays

UFO

I’m Still Here

Wallenberg

49 Pulses

A Murder In the Park

Diner

Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary 2

Seems Like Old Times

Taken in Broad Daylight

Murder on a Sunday Morning

The Amityville Murders

Judgement Day: The John List Story

Used Cars

Two If By Sea

Revenge

Monsterville

Missing

Office Killer

Twin Towers

Midnight Special

Sierra Burgess is a Loser

Haunting on Fraternity Row

Castle Freak 

Hidden

Red Clover

Air

Self/less

Colonia

Inoperable 

Hallow’s Eve

Lord of Illusions 

H.H. Holmes: Original Evil

Instant Family

Starman

Everybody Wants Some

After Auschwitz 

Crocodile

Victor Crowley

Always

You Might Be The Killer

Jonestown: Massacre in the Jungle

The Act

Mister Rogers It’s You I Like

Swimming in Auschwitz

Ingenious 

Bright Lights, Big City

The Dirt

Operation Finale

Hell House LLC 2

Us

Extinction 

The Night Eats the World

Green Book

Freddie Mercury: The Greatest Showman

Captive State

Encino Man

Aquaman

The Three Musketeers 

The Highway Men

What We Do In The Shadows

Howling III

A Dog Year

Like Father Like Son

Tune In

They Live

Selena

Curly Sue

The Miami Showband Massacre

Follow That Bird

Lifeforce

Pet Semetary (2019)

Coherence

Devil In The Flesh

The Haunting of Sharon Tate

Hobgoblins

To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story

Last Girl Standing

Blood Was Everywhere

Compliance

Cat People 

Helter Skelter

Dead Body

The Stranger Beside Me

Blood Rage

A Dog’s Way Home

Crazy Eights

The Nest

Haunt

Capturing the Green River Killer

Bumblebee

8 Seconds

Society

Apartment 143

Horror Noire 

Stepfather 2

The Hillside Stranglers

Heart of the Country

Opportunity Knocks

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

Good Fences

Conspiracy

Eddie

Fatal Beauty

Like Father Like Son

The Telephone

Listen To Me

Fresh Horses

The Girl Most Likely To

Bingo

The Perfect Catch

House Party

Every Day

The Family I Had

Scenes From A Mall

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Shuttle 

Jennifer 8

The Chipmunk Adventure

Home Invasion

I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu

Avengers: Endgame

No Good Deed

The Exception 

Train

The Hole In The Ground

The Perfect Guy

Man Up

Amen

The Rachels

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

The Calling

Freedom Riders

Bad Dreams

Playing for Keeps

The Diary of Anne Frank

Thriller

Death House

Slumber Party Massacre II

Miracle on Interstate 880

The Long Island Railroad Massacre

Satan’s Little Helper

Voodoo

Charlie Says

November Criminals

Stripped to Kill

Soapdish

Gifted

Isn’t It Romantic

The Nanny Diaries

Before We Go

Into the Spiderverse

The Chesire Murders

Skyscraper

Strawberry Flavored Plastic

The Challenger Disaster 

Rogue One

Solo

The Last Man On Earth

Hunger Games

Catching Fire

Mockingjay

Mockingjay Part 2

I Saw The Sign

Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie

Senior Trip

The Club

The Convent

The Initiation 

One Dark Night

The Last American Virgin

Donkey Punch

Child’s Play

Screamtime

The Public

Trick or Treats

The Best of Enemies 

Lake Fear

Funland

Lilo and Stitch 2

Stitch: The Movie

Emperor's New Groove 

Threads

Hotel Mumbai 

Little 

The Langoliers 

Mary Poppins Returns

Scary Stories

Greta

Witchfinder General

Denial

Cronos

The Redeemer: Son of Satan

The Curse of La Llorona

When The Walls Talk

I Married A Witch

American Dream

Body Parts

Woodstock

A Dog’s Journey

Brightburn

Stagefright

Ready or Not

Don’t Go In To the Woods

Hell Night

Sharknado 

Skeletons in the Closet 

Stalking Laura

Every Woman’s Dream

Dear Mr. Gacy

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Let’s Scare Jessica To Death

Fantastic 4

The Losers

Ma

What’s Your Number

It: Chapter 2

I Saw What You Did

The Perfect Score

The Red Sea Diving Resort

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 

Cellular 

Puncture

Aladdin

The Secret Life of Pets 2

Sunshine

13 Ghosts

Harvest Love

Hell House LLC. 3

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Dark Phoenix

The Iceman

Shiver

Nightmare Cinema

The Invitation

Monster Party

Snowpiercer 

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Beneath

Haunt

Primeval

Shazam

London

Under The Autumn Moon

Killing Ground

Malicious

Eyes Without A Face

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

Toy Story 4

The Monster Project

Annabelle Comes Home

Not Another Teen Movie

Run, Hide, Die

Recovery

Fierce People

Bait

The Ranger

The Awakening

Critters Attack

Are You Afraid of the Dark

Crawl

Dead Night

Rogue

Silent House

3 From Hell

The Reef

The Incubus

The Midnight Hour

Repulsion

Booksmart

The Company of Wolves

Strange Invaders

Invaders From Mars

Murder on the Orient Express

Let It Snow

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

The Art of Racing In the Rain

Midsommar

The Intruder

Open Water 3

Black Water

The Night Before

While She Was Out

Knives Out

Rocky Mountain Christmas

Parenthood

Call Me Claus

Stranger in the Family

The Sweetest Christmas

Christmas Under Wraps

Goodnight Sugar Babe

Ghosts of Mississippi

Miss Christmas

Theodore Rex

Semper Fi

Hustlers

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Tomb Raider

Sahara 

Tag

Game Night

Mary

6 Underground

Bah Humduck

The Campaign

Creed

TMNT

The Pledge

Don’t Let Go

The Lion King

Vertical Limit

U.S Marshals 

Cum On Feel The Noise

Jumanji The Next Level

Charlie’s Angels

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HBO Max New Releases: September 2021

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The summer movie season may be winding down, but HBO Max is keeping the movie ball rolling in September 2021. HBO Max’s list of new releases this month is heavy on the film side of things – both in library and original offerings.

Two Warner Bros. films of note arrive this month. The James Wan-directed horror tale Malignant premieres on Sept. 10 and is followed by Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho on Sept. 17. The next installment in Adventure Time: Distant Lands (which is kind of like a film series!) is titled Wizard City and opens the month on Sept. 2

Of course, it wouldn’t be a new month of HBO Max releases without some interesting evergreen Warner movie titles. Sept. 1 finds all eight Harry Potter movies returning to WarnerMedia’s streaming service. They will be accompanied by The Goonies, The Evil Dead, Cloverfield, and more. Later on in the month, Mortal Kombat (Sept. 9), Mad Max: Fury Road (Sept. 9), and Promising Young Woman (Sept. 25) all come back to the streaming world.

On the TV side of things, HBO Max is bringing back DC’s strangest heroes for season 3 of Doom Patrol on Sept. 23. And for those who need their true crime fix, The Way Down should fit the bill. This docuseries about a weight loss cult is timely for reasons you’ll definitely want to Google.

HBO Max New Releases – September 2021

September 1 A Hijacking, 2013 (HBO) The Animal, 2001 (HBO) Army Of Darkness, 1993 (HBO) The Benchwarmers, 2006 (HBO) Bodas de Oro (aka The Anniversary), 2019 (HBO) The Cell 2, 2009 (HBO) Cloverfield, 2008 (HBO) Dead Again, 1991 (HBO) Deck the Halls, 2006 (HBO) Detour, 2017 (HBO) Drinking Buddies, 2013 (HBO) Epic Movie, 2007 (Extended Version) (HBO) Event Horizon, 1997 (HBO) The Evil Dead, 1983 (HBO) Evil Dead 2, 1987 (HBO) Flawless, 2008 (HBO) The Forgotten, 2004 (HBO) Fun Size, 2012 (HBO) The Gallows, 2015 (HBO) The Good German, 2006 (HBO) The Good Heart, 2010 (HBO) The Goonies, 1985 Green Lantern 2011 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, 2011 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2009 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2007 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2001 Impostor, 2002 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Inheritance, 2020 (HBO) In the Heart of the Sea, 2015 (HBO) Kany Garcia: Soy Yo En Vivo, 2019 (HBO) King Kong, 2005 (Extended Version) HBO) Lady in the Water, 2006 (HBO) Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944 Mr. Nobody, 2013 (Extended Version) (HBO) My Golden Days, 2016 (HBO) Nanny McPhee, 2006 (HBO) Oblivion, 2013 (HBO) On the Town, 1949 Ouija: Origin of Evil, 2016 (HBO) Paulie, 1998 (HBO) The Poet Of Havana, 2015 (HBO) Prime, 2005 (HBO) Prince Avalanche, 2013 (HBO) Reik En Vivo Desde El Auditorio Nacional, 2015 (HBO) Rent, 2005 (HBO) Romeo Santos The King Stays King: Live At Madison Square Garden, 2012 (HBO) Santana – Corazon: Live From Mexico, Live It To Believe It, 2014 (HBO) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, 2012 (HBO) Severance, 2007 (HBO) Showdown In Little Tokyo, 1991 (HBO) The Song Remains the Same, 1976 Taken 2, 2012 (Extended Version) (HBO) Thalia Viva Tour En Vivo, 2014 (HBO) That’s Entertainment!, 1974 That’s Entertainment! II, 1976 That’s Entertainment! III, 1994 Transformers, 2007 (HBO) Undisputed, 2002 (HBO) Vanilla Sky, 2001 (HBO) View from the Top, 2003 (HBO) What They Had, 2018 (HBO) What Women Want, 2000 (HBO) Yandel: Legacy – De Lider A Leyenda Tour, 2015 (HBO)

September 2 Adventure Time: Distant Lands – Wizard City, Max Original Special Premiere Sweet Life: Los Angeles, Max Original Season Finale

September 3 Amaraica, 2020 (HBO) At Last, 2020 Bittu, 2020 Coffee Shop Names, 2020 Liberty Kid, 2007

September 4 News of the World, 2020 (HBO)

September 7 Hard Knocks ’21: The Dallas Cowboys, Season Finale (HBO)

September 8 Nasciturus, 2021

September 9 Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015 Sweet Life: Los Angeles, Max Original Reunion Special Mortal Kombat, 2021 (HBO)

September 10 Elliott from Earth, Season 1 Malignant, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021 (Available in 4K UHD, HDR10, Dolby Vision)

September 11 Ben 10, Season 4C NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½, Documentary Series Finale (HBO) Walker, Season 1

September 12 Scenes from a Marriage, Limited Series Premiere (HBO)

September 13 Care Bears: Unlock the Magic I’m Sorry Little Ellen, Max Original Series Premiere

September 15 A La Calle, 2020 The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, 1966

September 16 Tig n’ Seek, Max Original Season 3 Premiere

September 17 Apple & Onion, Season 2B Cry Macho, Warner Bros. Film Premiere (Available in 4K UHD, HDR10, Dolby Vision) El Cuartito, 2021 (HBO) Superman & Lois, Season 1

September 18 The People v. The Klan

September 20 Hard, Season 3 Finale (HBO) Total Dramarama

September 21 Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

September 23 Ahir Shah: Dots, Max Original Special Premiere Doom Patrol, Max Original Season 3 Premiere The Other Two, Max Original Season 2 Finale

September 25 Promising Young Woman, 2020 (HBO)

September 26 Nuclear Family, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)

September 27 Huesped Americano (aka The American Guest), Series Premiere (HBO) Little Sky, 2021 Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short (HBO) Neh, 2021 Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short (HBO) Unmothered, 2021 Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short (HBO)

September 29 Entre Hombres (aka Amongst Men), Series Premiere (HBO)

September 30 The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo, Max Original Season 2 Premiere Ten-Year-Old Tom, Max Original Series Premiere Those Who Wish Me Dead, 2021 (HBO) (Available in 4K UHD, HDR10, Dolby Vision) The Way Down, Max Original Series Premiere Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs, Max Original Series Premiere

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Leaving HBO Max – September 2021  

September 5 Lost Resort, 2020 The Suicide Squad, 2021

September 12 CHIPS, 2017 (HBO)

September 19 Ford V. Ferrari, 2019 (HBO) Norm Of The North: King Sized Adventure, 2019 Reminiscence, 2021

September 20 Doctor Sleep, 2020 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)

September 24 King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, 2017 (HBO)

September 30 Abandon, 2002 (HBO) Abuela’s Luck, 2019 (HBO) Addicted to Love, 1997 American History X, 1998 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1974 (HBO) Being Julia, 2004 The Butcher’s Wife, 1991 (HBO) Cabaret , 1972 Camelot, 1967 City of Angels, 1998 The Craft, 1996 Dark Shadows, 2012 (HBO) Deerskin, 2020 (HBO) Demolition Man, 1993 The Devil’s Advocate, 1997 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, 2002 Drumline, 2002 (Extended Version) (HBO) Dumb & Dumber, 1994 The Electric Horseman, 1979 (HBO) Endings, Beginnings, 2019 (HBO) Escape from New York, 1981 Eye for an Eye, 1996 (HBO) Fierce People, 2007 (HBO) Final Analysis, 1992 (HBO) The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, 2000 (HBO) The Flintstones, 1994 (HBO) Fracture, 2007 From Dusk Till Dawn, 1996 Full Beat, 2018 (HBO) Ghosts of Mississippi, 1996 Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 Gold Diggers of 1935, 1955 The Graduate, 1967 Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, 2009 Happy-Go-Lucky, 2008 (HBO) Hardball, 2001 (HBO) Haywire, 2012 (HBO) Honeymoon in Vegas, 1992 House Arrest, 2012 (HBO) House on Haunted Hill, 1999 In & Out, 1997 (HBO) Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, 1993 (HBO) Jason X, 2002 Jerry Maguire, 1996 JFK, 1991 Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990 Kicking & Screaming, 2005 (HBO) Klute, 1971 Labyrinth, 1986 Las Herederas (aka The Heiresses), 2019 (HBO) Last Action Hero, 1993 Leatherface Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, 1990 (HBO) The Longest Yard, 1974 (HBO) The Man With The Iron Fists, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO) Marie Antoinette, 2006 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1997 Midway, 2019 (HBO) Million Dollar Mermaid , 1952 Miss Firecracker, 1989 (HBO) Miss Sharon Jones!, 2015 Murder at 1600, 1997 Murder by Numbers, 2002 Must Love Dogs, 2005 My Bloody Valentine 3-D, 2009 (HBO) My Super Ex-Girlfriend, 2006 (HBO) Nights in Rodanthe, 2008 No Reservations, 2007 Not Another Teen Movie, 2001 Observe and Report, 2009 Ola de Crimenes (aka Crime Wave), 2018 (HBO) Once Upon a Time in Mexico, 2003 One Day, 2001 (HBO) Outbreak, 1995 Pleasantville, 1998 Point Break, 1991 (HBO) The Polar Express, 2004 Practical Magic, 1998 Primal Fear, 1996 (HBO) The Prince of Tides, 1991 Raw Deal, 1986 (HBO) The Return, 2006 (HBO) The Right Stuff, 1983 Rumor Has It…, 2005 Scary Movie, 2000 Scary Movie 2, 2001 Scary Movie 3, 2003 Scream, 1996 Scream 2, 1997 Scream 3, 2000 The Search for Santa Paws, 2010 (HBO) Short Circuit, 1986 Single White Female, 1992 Slackers, 2002 Snakes on a Plane, 2006 Soldier, 1998 The Sweetest Thing, 2002 Tango & Cash, 1989 Ted, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO) Tequila Sunrise, 1998 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, 2006 (Extended Version) (HBO) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2003 The Time Machine, 1960 Tin Cup, 1996 Torch Song Trilogy, 1988 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection, 2012 The Upside of Anger, 2005 Victor/Victoria, 1982 The Warriors, 1979 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) The Watch, 2012 (HBO) Willard, 1971 (HBO) Wings, 2012

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Witchcraft in the 19th Century

A Recent Witch

Not many years ago there resided in the neighbourhood of Burnley an old woman, whose malevolent practices were supposed to render themselves manifest by the injuries she inflicted on her neighbours' cattle; and many a lucky-stone, many a stout horse-shoe and rusty sickle may now be found behind the doors or hung from the beams in the cow-houses and stables belonging to the farmers in that locality, which date their suspension from the time when this 'witch' in reputation held the countryside in awe.

Not one of her neighbours ever dared to offend her openly; and if she at any time preferred a request, it was granted at all hazards, regardless of the inconvenience and expense.

If, in some thoughtless moment, anyone spoke slightingly, either of her or her powers, a corresponding penalty was threatened as soon as it reached her ears, and the loss of cattle, personal health, or a general 'run of bad luck' soon led the offending party to think seriously of making peace with his powerful tormentor.

As time wore on, she herself sickened and died; but before she could 'shuffle off this mortal coil' she must needs transfer her familiar spirit to some trusty successor.

An intimate acquaintance from a neighbouring township was consequently sent for in all haste, and on her arrival was immediately closeted with her dying friend.

What passed between them has never fully transpired, but it is confidently affirmed that at the close of the interview this associate received the witch's last breath into her mouth, and with it the familiar spirit.

The dreaded woman thus ceased to exist, but her powers for good or evil were transferred to her companion; and on passing along the road from Burnley to Blackburn, we can point out a farm-house at no great distance, with whose thrifty matron no one will yet dare to quarrel.

The Evil Eye

The influence of the 'evil eye' is felt as strongly in this county as in any other part of the world, and various means are resorted to in order to prevent it's effects.

'Drawing blood above the mouth' of the person suspected is the favourite antidote in the neighbourhood of Burnley, and in the district of Craven, a few miles within the borders of Yorkshire, a person who was not well disposed towards his neighbours is believed to have slain a pear tree which grew opposite his house by directing towards it the first morning glances of his Evil Eye.

Spitting three times in the person's face; turning a live coal on the fire; and exclaiming, 'the Lord be with us', are other means of averting its influence.

The Wicken or Rowan Tree

The anti-witching properties of this tree are held in very high esteem in the northern counties of England. No witch will come near it; and it is believed that it's smallest twig crossing the path of a witch, will effectually stop her career.

To prevent the churn being bewitched, so that the butter will not come, the churn-staff must be made of the wicken-tree.

Cattle must be protected from witchery by sprigs of wicken over or in the shippons.

All honest people wishing to have sound sleep must keep the witches from their beds by having a branch of wicken at their bed-heads.

From Lancashire Folklore, 1882 John Harland and T.T. Wilkinson.

Witchcraft in the 19th Century

Witchcraft still keeps its hold on the minds of many of our peasants.

They never doubt it's reaIity, although their conceptions of its effects, and the powers of those who are supposed to practise the art, have undergone much modification since the time when witchcraft was made a capital crime.

At present, reputed witches are supposed to employ themselves much more in doing mischief than in 'raising storms and causing great devastations both by sea and land'.

Witch feasts are now unknown; nor do the 'old crones' now fly through the air on broomsticks; but they are supposed to be able to cause bad luck to those who offend them; to produce fatal diseases in those they desire to punish more severely; and to plague the farmers by afflicting their cattle, and rendering their produce unprofitable.

Sickles, triple pieces of iron, and horse shoes, may still be found on the beams and behind the doors of stables and shippons; which are supposed to possess the power of destroying, or preventing, the effects of witchcraft; and self-holed stones, termed 'lucky-stones', are still suspended over the backs of cows, in order that they may be protected from every diabolical influence.

When cream is 'bynged', and will produce no butter by any amount of churning, it is said to be bewitched and a piece of red hot iron is frequently put into the churn, in order that the witch may be 'burnt out', and that butter may be produced.

To prevent cream from being bynged, dairy maids are taught to sing when churning:

Come, butter, come; Peter stands at t'yate, Waiting for a butter cake; Come, butter, come.

When we see a fire on the top of a hill, we are sometimes assured that the flame is a witch-fire, and that the witches may be seen dancing round it at midnight.

It is firmly believed that no witch, nor even any very ill-disposed person, can step over anything in the shape of a cross. Hence persons are advised to lay a broom across the doorway when any suspected person is coming in. If their suspicions are well grounded, the witch will make some excuse and pass along the road.

The power of a witch is supposed to be destroyed by sprinkling salt into the fire nine mornings in succession. The person who sprinkles the salt must be the one affected by the supposed witchcraft, and as the salt drops down must repeat, 'Salt! Salt! I put thee into the fire, and may the person who has bewitched me neither eat, drink, nor sleep, until the spell is broken.'

During 187I a young man, resident near Manchester, suspected his own mother of having bewitched him, and the above spell was repeated in the presence of the magistrates before whom he was summoned, in consequence of his inhuman conduct to his mother.

There is also a female resident near Burnley, who refuses to live with her husband, because she suspects him of having bewitched her on many occasions.

Witches and Halloween

All-Hallow's Eve, Halloween, etc. (from the old English 'halwen', saints), denotes the vigil and day of All Saints, October 31 and November I, a season abounding in superstitious observances.

It was firmly believed in Lancashire that the witches assembled on this night at their general rendezvous in the Forest of Pendle, a ruined and desolate farmhouse, called the Malkin Tower

This superstition led to another, that of lighting, lating, or leeting the witches.

It was believed that if a lighted candle were carried about the fells or hills from eleven to twelve o'clock at night, and burned all that time steadily, it had so far triumphed over the evil power of the witches, who, as they passed to the Malkin Tower, would employ their utmost effor ts to extinguish the light, and the person whom it represented might safely defy their malice during the season, but if, by any accident the candle went out, it was an omen of evil to the luckless wight for whom the experiment was made.

It was also deemed inauspicious to cross the threshold of that person until after the return from leeting, and not then unless the candle had preserved its light. A Mr. Milner describes this ceremony as having been recently performed.

From Lancashire Folklore, 1882 John Harland and T.T. Wilkinson.

Killing a Witch

Some years ago I formed the acquaintance of an elderly gentleman who had retired from business, after amassing an ample fortune by the manufacture of cotton.

He was possessed of a considerable amount of general information, had studied the world by which he was surrounded, and was a leading member of the Wesleyan connection. The faith element, however, predominated amongst his religious principles, and hence both he and his family were firm believers in witchcraft.

On one occasion, according to my informant, both he and the neighbouring farmers suffered much from loss of cattle, and from the unproductiveness of their sheep.

The cream was bynged (soured) in the churn, and would bring forth no butter.

Their cows died mad in the shippons, and no farrier could be found who was able to fix upon the diseases which afflicted them.

Horses were bewitched out of their stables through the loopholes, after the doors had been locked, and were frequently found strayed to a considerable distance when they ought to have been safe in their stalls.

Lucky-stones had lost their virtues; horse shoes nailed behind the doors were of little use; and sickles hung across the beams had no effect in averting the malevolence of the evil-doer.

At length suspicion rested upon an old man, a noted astrologer and fortune- teller, who resided near Newchurch, in Rossendale, and it was determined to put an end both to their ill fortune and his career, by performing the requisite ceremonials for 'killing a witch'.

It was a cold November evening when the process commenced. A thick fog covered the valleys, and the wild winds whistled across the dreary moors. The farmers, however, were not deterred.

They met at the house of one of their number, whose cattle were supposed to be under the influence of the wizard; and having procured a live cock-chicken, they stuck him full of pins and burnt him alive, whilst repeating some magical incantation.

A cake was also made of oatmeal, mixed with the urine of those bewitched, and, after having been marked with the name of the person suspected, was then burnt in a similar manner.

The wind suddenly rose to a tempest and threatened the destruction of the house.

Dreadful moanings as of some one in intense agony, were heard without, whilst a sense of horror seized upon all within.

At the moment when the storm was at the wildest, the wizard knocked at the door, and in piteous tones desired admittance.

They had previously been warned by the 'wise man' whom they had consulted, that such would be the case, and had been charged not to yield to their feelings of humanity by allowing him to enter. Had they done so, he would have regained all his influence, for the virtue of the spell would have been dissolved.

Again and again did he implore them to open the door, and pleaded the bitterness of the wintry blast, but no one answered from within. They were deaf to all his entreaties, and at last the wizard wended his way across the moors as best he could.

The spell, therefore, was enabled to have its full effect, and within a week the Rossendale Wizard was locked in the cold embrace of death.

From Lancashire Folklore, 1882 John Harland and T.T. Wilkinson.

http://www.pendlewitches.co.uk/witchcraft/

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Movies to watch

-virtigo -green room

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WEEKEND TV HOT FILM PICKS!

Check out my guide to the top films on TV this weekend and the best of the rest. Enjoy!

In all honesty it's slim pickings. So probably go out and do something good. Perhaps get your ass to the cinema and check out Mrs. Wick... or Atomic Blonde as it's been called, or A Ghost Story for some arthouse mystery drama.

It's also worth mentioning, for those in Birmingham - Digbeth Dining club are hosting their 5th Birthday with a full Street Closure on Friday.

However if you are planning on a weekend in front of the box like me - here's my picks.  

LATE FRIDAY 18th AUGUST

HOT PICK!

Spike @ 2300 Sin City (2005) *****

Check out this fantastic almost page for page cinematic version of the outstanding comic books from Frank Miller. It’s a feast for the eyes, rich black and white, amazing use of shadow and light. Almost every wonderful image from the original books has been lovingly recreated here. It has an absolutely superb cast - Mickey Rourke as Marv - Bruce Willis as Hartigan. They are simply perfect casting. It’s based on 3 separate stories, Rodriguez and Miller weave these together perfectly creating a stunning, dark & beautiful film.

Best of the rest:

Film4 @ 1635       Shrek (2001) ****

Film4 @ 1820       Robin Hood (2010) ***

5* @ 2100             The Fifth Element (1997) *****

BBC1 @ 2305      The Client (1994) ***

TCM @ 2310        Escape from LA (1996) ***

Film4 @ 2330      Hellboy (2004) ***

FIlm4 @ 0150      The Keep (1983) ***

SATURDAY 19th AUGUST

HOT PICKS!

BBC1 @ 1715     Toy Story (1995) *****

Toy Story launched Pixar into the dizzy heights of success with this amazing computer animated film. It perfectly fused a magical kids film with enough charm, comedy and detailed story line to capture the imagination of all ages. There is tons of humour for both kids and grown-ups alike all packed into one of the most magical stories ever told. Super accessible to everyone and über charming, just like the toys will always stay with Andy, these characters will stay with you for the rest of your life. A true modern classic.

5* @ 1710      Labyrinth (1986) ****

You remind me of the babe What babe? babe with the power What power? power of voodoo Who do? you do Do what? remind me of the babe…

Check out the Honest Trailer for Labyrinth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjobWguWIRk

Best of the rest:

TCM @ 0910      Houseboat (1958) ***

BBC2 @ 1345    Forbidden Planet (1956) ****

ITV1 @ 2000      The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) ***

Sky1 @ 2100     Days of Thunder (1990) ***

Syfy @ 2100      Outbreak (1995) ***

TCM @ 2100     The Graduate (1967) *****

Film4 @ 2245    Attack the Block (2011) ***

ITV1 @ 2250      The World is not Enough (1999) ***

ITV4 @ 2305       Blade (1998) ***

C4 @ 2350         X-Men (2000) ***

BBC1 @ 0020    Tron: Legacy (2010) ***

Film4 @ 0210    Submarine (2010) ****

SUNDAY 20th AUGUST

HOT PICK!

ITV1 @ 1930 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) ****

A very satisfying final act to one of the greatest film franchises ever. A suitably grand vision for this final chapter with spectacular action sequences. Everyone gets their moments here and all that troubles me now is how many different types of elaborate limited Blu ray box sets I’ll be wasting my money on… I already have 2!

Best of the rest:

Film4 @ 1300           Antz (1998) ***

ITV1 @ 1525             Licence to Kill (1989) ****

C4 @ 1630               Tangled (2010) ***

Universal @ 2100   Along Came a Spider (2001) ***

Horror @ 2100        The Signal (2014) ***

Spike @ 2100          The Last Stand (2013) ***

Sony @ 2100            Midnight Run (1988) ****

ITV3 @ 0005             Casablanca (1942) *****

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I remembered that what was finished of last year's Halloween event got released to the public, so I tried it out. And this is when I realized that I was extremely stupid

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Shankshaw’s Revenge 🎭

Prince Roland clinked his silver against the glass goblet, standing from the velvet cushion of his throne. He looked so elegantly regal in his midnight attire, a black silk coat cinched tight to his slim frame and a crimson cloth draped over his shoulder. His hawk-like features were hidden beneath a lattice threaded mask beaded with onyx pearls and rubies that curved up into a plomb of wings, as if he truly were the predator incarnate. His only betrayal were those frozen river eyes that didn’t quite match the rest of his darkness.

“My esteemed courtesans, welcome to this Hallow's Eve Masquerade. A night to celebrate the souls of those we’ve lost. A night, I dare say, to ravish in their memory and indulge in revelry on their behalf.” Though the mask covered his mouth, Georgina sensed that the corners of his lips had upturned  in a rather bemused smirk. “I have prepared our jester with a small game for your entertainment.” He motioned to his guards. “If you would kindly bring in the clown.”

He was dragged in on chains, his body limp with the weight of the gilded manacles biting into his ankles and wrists. Bent over, his spine punctured his dirty rags like tiny daggers slicing the skin, starved and broken as he was. He was placed at the foot of the dais, the guards unshackling him, and for a moment Georgina thought the clown might collapse. But slowly, ever so slowly, he began to roll up on limbs seemingly inflated with life. With his head still bowed, he peered through strands of silvered hair, his eyes red rimmed and swollen. A smile stretched across the whole of his face- not just any smile though. It was a smile carved from flesh, a mangled mess of a puckered wound that sliced up his cheekbones from the corners of his mouth. Georgina gasped. She had never seen someone quite so hideous, nor anything so gruesome. It wasn’t becoming of a lady to be present to such eeriness. 

“Ghouls,” the clown rasped, crooking a finger toward a woman seated at the front, “and gremlins.” He lurched toward the man seated opposite her. “Tonight we feast on the dead.” 

“Enough with the dramatics, Shankshaw. You are not here to frighten the guests,” Prince Roland scolded. 

Shankshaw glared up at the prince from the corner of his eyes, his smile widening to teeth.“Yes master.” He turned back to the crowd, pulling out a blunt of sage from his bootleg. “To begin this ritual, I must first perfume the air with the burning of a beauty.”

“He means a beauty burning the sage, of course.”

Shankshaw nodded vehemently. “Of course, of course.” He skidded over to Mrs. Westlow, the wife of the Captain of the Guard. “Misses, if you would.”

“Oh no, I couldn’t possibly-“ she protested, her thickly jeweled neck blushing stark white.

“Oh but you must!” He dug his talons into her naked shoulder. “The spirits call to you, my lady.” Mrs. Westlow’s eyes rounded as he thrust the sage into her hands and, as if by magic, blew a breath of fire to ignite the wrap. Thick purple smoke began to mist around the room, obscuring the clown as he weaved in and out of the rows of courtesans. 

“And now, if you would, may I have a volunteer to draw just a drop of blood?” The clown’s voice was a wailing whisper, like claws scratching violin strings. 

A man wreathed in the insignia of the scroll chamber jolted from his chair. “And what of this? Why should we spill our blood on the plea of a court jester.”

“Mr.Chamberland, keeper of the ancient scrolls, is it?” The clown unsheathed a dagger from a scabbard at his side and palmed the blade. “Hasn’t there been anyone dear that you’ve lost? Anyone you would simply die to speak with one last time?” Georgina watched as the man’s face slacked, his outburst extinguished by a sudden veil of sorrow. It had been rumored, she knew, that the man had just lost his youngest daughter to a terrible bout of pneumonia.

“I suppose I volunteer tribute then. I will slice my palm, but just enough to get on with the ritual.”

Shankshaw handed Mr. Chamberland the dagger, blade first. Mr. Chamberland carefully sliced a line across his palm, watching in fascination as a well of blood began to pour from his open fist. Shankshaw crouched below the line of blood, letting the next drop catch on his tongue. 

“Now look, you tortured creature-“ Mr. Chamberland started.

“And for our last bit of fun I shall use the help of our prince.”

“Do not involve me in your antics, Shankshaw. I am not meant to partake in your little game.”

“Oh, oh, but Prince Roland you must lead example to your court! It is a small part. Insignificant really. Why you don’t have to do anything at all. Just stand center to the ritual. A figurehead. A leader. A king.” Georgina could see the cold, calculating fury starting to fissure through Prince Roland’s eyes. She knew the clown had struck a cord with that forbidden word, the title Prince Roland so steadfastly reached for but would never quite grasp. The prince lifted his chin and waved a gloved hand, unimpressed by Shankshaw’s performance but unwavering in his determination to not be bested by the tricks of his fool. 

Shankshaw bounded up the steps of the dais so that he was face to face with Prince Roland, a cruel mirror of the beautiful black hawk of Rathia to his broken and bloody plaything. The clown no longer looked hunchback, but rather stood taller than even the prince. They could be about the same age, Georgina thought, though the clown’s mutilated face made it hard to discern any signs of youth. 

The clown pulled from his pocket a leather bag, which he began to upturn in a circle around the prince, creating an almost protective sphere, like she had seen some of the witches do in their hexes. Though instead of candles and salt, small shards of bones and what appeared to be ash crowned the prince. Shankshaw howled, a truly vicious laugh that stopped Georgina’s blood cold. 

“For years you have laughed at my misery, prince. Humiliated me, tortured me. Carved up who I was born to be into the tiny pieces of who you forced me to become. I was born to be a magician, you know that? Born to the blood of the magi. But you stole that from me. You all,” Shankshaw turned to the crowd, “have stolen that from me.” 

“Your game this night is over, fool. Do not think I will take kindly to what you have done here,” Roland seethed. “Guards!” But the guards did not come.

Mrs. Westlow began in a fit of coughs, a rib rattling hackle that seemed to worsen the more the sage smoke burned the air.

Shankshaw bent back his spine and let loose another cackle onto the night. “You think me so dim witted. A lowly court jester. Ha! I have paid attention over the years.” With a wave of his hand, the smoke parted to reveal the mask of horror that lay beneath. All across the room, velvet and jewel encrusted vizards drop bloodstained on the floor, the courtesan’s faces unveiled to the skin. And across each, a smile of flesh and blood sliced from ear to ear.

 Amid the coughing, Mrs. Westlow let out a strangled scream, though to Georgina’s ears it sounded more like choking. 

“Mrs. Westlow, how I do regret that the smoke will trigger emphysema, especially with such a case so severe as yours. A hidden opium pipe addiction will do that, I suppose.” 

She clapped a hand over her mouth, trying to muffle the next onslaught. But instead of air, a ripple of flame crawled through her lips, licking its tongues down her neck to catch fire to her dress of jaded satin. The fire didn’t just burn her skin, it seemed to melt it, a sort of hellfire that incinerated her in the same instant it took for her to breathe. In just a blink of an eye, she became mere ash, as if she had ceased to exist at all.

“You monster!” Prince Roland bellowed. “Have you no remorse, no mercy for the carnage you have wrought upon your kingdom?” The prince dared to charge the clown, drawing the sword that always lay ready at his back, but was hurled back by some invisible force that enchambered the circle of bones.

“Tenfold for the carnage you have wrought upon me.” Shankshaw countered. He dragged a finger across the wreckage of his smile. “Just a boy prince is all you are. Cruel without purpose. Tell me Roland, how does it feel to be trapped as the world you love dies right before your eyes?”

Prince Roland’s eyes flickered to Georgina, a plea to run, to escape the fate of the dying court. 

“Ah yes, the jewel of Rathia,” Shankshaw purred. He stalked toward her, an icy fear paralyzing her to her seat. She looked to Mr. Chamberland, her last hope, and gasped as his body fell to the floor, blood leaking from his eyes and nose and mouth. 

“Georgina!” Prince Roland screamed, though it was as if she were hearing him from beneath water. She could hear him, but the words could not reach her. Silent tears wet her cheeks as the clown bent a knee before her, pulling from his shirt sleeve a single rose and extending it to her. The rose was in full bloom, strangely plump in a season where the rose bushes were beginning to wilt.

“A beauty such as the Gardens of Botanica would be jealous.” Shankshaw whispered.

Georgina reached for the rose, and for the moment her skin touched his, she was reminded of another boy at another time with another rose jimmied up his shirtsleeve.

“Peter?”

Shankshaw smiled, a true grin without malice or menace. “Georgina.” And then, in a motion swifter than her eye could track, he slashed a dagger line across her chest, just above where her heart lay.

[idornaseminary]

Chapter One-Hundred Sixty-Six: Beatrice

Liara watched, spellbound, as Beatrice Selwyn ended the life of Theodore Crix. A scream was caught in her throat, but she noted the children around her screaming in horror at the scene.

Several wands raised from the crowd around her, aimed directly at Ms. Selwyn, and Liara waved her hand in front of her face, and each wand that was raised was knocked to the marble floor.

Gasps sounded from across the room as Liara stepped forward, tears brimming on her eyelids as she surveyed the scene, the body of Theodore Crix limp and lifeless. Her bottom lip trembled, and she looked up to Beatrice, then down to where Enzo Bellerose held the unconscious body of Melanie Winter.

“Take her to Doctor Evans, Enzo,” she said, struggling to keep her voice steady.

Mr. Bellerose nodded, grunting as he lifted himself off of the ground, hoisting Ms. Winter with him, and made his way through the crowd towards the infirmary.

She took note of one Natasha Kraus. She was a quiet girl, and Liara knew that she was not well received by the rest of her children. “Away, Ms. Kraus. To the Curcurrion common rooms, if you would.”

The only reason that she sent Natasha away is that she knew several of the students behind her would immediately point the blame at her, and Liara had an idea that it was not the case.

She slowly walked the next ten or so steps to where Beatrice Selwyn stood, seeming nearly paralyzed as she stared at the body of her victim. She was just about to speak when she heard a clattering of footsteps clicking down the hallways of her home.

“Headmistress,” she heard Virgil Vincent speak, his face in pure horror at the sight of the scene. This is clearly not the Judas among my family. “What’s happened?”

Calmly, Liara took a deep breath. “Retrieve the body of Calix Galen from the dungeons, Virgil.”

“His body?” he spoke, his voice hoarse. “No. Another… What about Teddy?”

“Mr. Crix attempted a murder tonight; Ms. Selwyn stopped him.”

“But where is -”

Liara raised a hand. “The dungeons, Virgil. Do not make me ask once more. Take another member of the staff with you, and be careful.”

Virgil looked like he wanted to say more, but he nodded before turning and pushing through the sea of students.

Liara let out a shaky breath before pulling her wand from her robes and pressing it to her throat. She let the magic seep into her vocal cords so that when she spoke, it echoed off of every wall in the school.

“My children, it is with great sorrow that I must inform you that our beloved Idorna is no longer the safe haven we once thought it would return to… Which is why, at midnight this night, you will all gather outside of the castle with everything you own. We will open the portal tonight, and you will be sent home for the remainder of the school year.

I wish it could be different, my children - I wish it with every fiber of my being - but I cannot allow another to be harmed. Please heed my orders and begin preparing for departure as soon as you are able. Thank you. And we… we thank you for attending Idorna.”    

She lowered her wand, and as she did, the students around her began to exit the Great Hall.

Liara turned, looking to Beatrice Selwyn who still had not moved. She took a moment before speaking again, her voice sounding oddly quiet without her magic. “Beatrice… My office, please.”

Headmistress Liara entered her office, closing the door behind Ms. Selwyn. “Please, have a seat,” she said, motioning towards the chair she made appear at her desk.

Her office was large and in the shape of a hexagon. There were several small staircases that led to different areas - the room in the back where she slept, or the small study where she would lose herself in a good book. The walls acted much as the Gladur did, the wallpaper taking on different forms depending on Liara’s mood. Now, they were grey clouds, rumbling softly and deeply.

Liara sat down behind her desk, laying her hands on the table. She was taught by her parents that it was always a nicety to do so - that it showed the person you were conversing with that you had absolutely nothing to hide.    

Beatrice looked down at the neatly upholstered embroidered chair in front of the enormous wooden desk which took up most of the Headmistress’s office, contemplating that she was likely going to be dismissed once she sat down. Though, what else did she have kept her there? Calix was gone. It wasn’t like she didn’t have options for a career, and though Idorna would have opened more doors, she would just have to make do with what she had. That was if Liara decided against sending her to Azkaban. After all, she deserved it.

The younger witch let out a shallow sigh and lightly set her hand on the rough cream colored cloth lining the arm of the chair, holding the antique steady as she slowly lowered herself into the seat, resting her hands delicately in her lap. She kept her gaze cast down on her hands, unable to help but stare at them contemplating how they took somebody’s life with such ease.

Liara noted the way Beatrice took her time as if she were a newborn just getting used to the world. She waved her hand as Beatrice took her seat, a silver goblet of wine appearing in front of the young witch.

“I thought you could use something a touch stronger than water,” Liara said, attempting a smile. “But I can get water if you’d like.”

Beatrice held the chalice steady in her lap, still staring down at the contents of the container. “Thank you, but I’m alright,” she said, making no move to drink from it. Now was not the time to get drunk. That would come later once she was back home in Wales, and she could properly mourn her loss. What would do I tell Ryker and Cassandra? They would want to hear from her, she knew.

“I know that you and Mr. Galen were close… Closer than friends,” Liara said, her voice silky and calming - a skill she learned to master over the years. “And I understand how you are feeling. My husband was taken from me at a young age. I would be lying if I said it becomes easy to move on, but you learn to cope.”

She took a deep breath, exhaling slowly, and in her breath, a spell of relaxation was carried to Beatrice, wrapping around her shoulders.

“It is no secret that there are those among us who want to see Idorna’s demise,” she continued. “And I cannot claim to know you or your truth, but I know what I saw. And what I saw was a young woman protecting her friends. I never suspected deeds of evil from Mr. Crix, but I always knew he was a troubled young man. And now I know who was behind the attacks at the Quidditch pitch. You saved a great number of your brothers and sisters, Ms. Selwyn, and although celebrations are not appropriate at this time, you should be proud of what you have accomplished today.”  

The forlorn young witch looked up at the powerful sorceress, her brown eyes filled with confusion and a glimmer of fear if she were being honest with herself. “I should be proud for taking somebody’s life?” she asked, voice crackling faintly, her shoulders squared aggressively as she set the goblet on the woman’s desk. “I should be proud?”

“It is quite the cliche - am aware,” Liara said, taking a deep breath, “but we all pass one day. However, we all have some say in when that day comes. Deeds that Theodore Crix carried out limit his time…” She dampened her lips. “You should not be proud of murder - no one should be - but you should not cower in shame at what transpired tonight.”  

She let a few seconds pass before speaking again. “Ms. Selwyn… Although Idorna can no longer remain active until the next school year, you need to be honest with me. There is a reason you and your friends confronted Theodore Crix this morning. You know something - something many of the students do not know. Something I do not even know. I need to know what that is. If there is any information that could aid me, I need to possess it.”

“Crix wasn’t the only one who tried to take the lives of other students,” she admitted quietly, twiddling her thumbs in her lap, carefully crossing her legs at the ankle. “Chantal Williams tried to kill me last semester on Hallow’s Eve. She had the assistance of four others, one of whom I assume was Theodore Crix, and another was Enzo Bellerose under the influence of a charmed amulet which I’m told was a daughter. The other three remain nameless to me,” Beatrice explained, slouching slightly as the spell Liara cast on her finally started to take effect.

She wet her lips and cast a glance at the glass of wine in front of her, wondering if it wouldn’t hurt to take a sip or two. Reaching out, she took the goblet back in her hand and stared down at the floral alcohol, deciding it couldn’t really hurt her as she brought it up to her lips and downed the contents slowly. “I have no idea how big this...ummm...this cult is, but we do know that there is a professor contributing to it,” she added, the sweet drink pleasantly sliding down her throat.

Liara raised her eyebrows. “I figured as much… However, since the incident on the Quidditch pitch, most of the professors have pulled away from me for one reason or another. Do you any inkling of who it may be?”

Beatrice shook her head slowly and wiped a red pearl of wine from the corner of her mouth. “No clue,” she said flatly, feeling a small tingle in the back of her mind from the alcohol.

Liara nodded her head, finally coming to a decision on what had been passing through her mind the minute she sat down. “Beatrice… What you performed was an Unforgivable Curse - and you performed it well.” She clasped her fingers together. “Normally, this would result in immediate expulsion and a ticket to Azkaban. However, in light of recent events, and the dire circumstances… I will grant you access to return to Idorna next autumn along with your fellow classmates. However, you will be heavily monitored. Is that clear?”

The Samoan nodded quickly, a weak smile on her lips at the thought that she could at least finish her degree if nothing else. “Crystal.”

The two women made idle talk for the next twenty minutes or so; Liara just wanted to ensure that Beatrice was stable enough to be sent around the castle on her own. Beatrice sipped on the wine, and Liara continued to surround her with healing magic.

It was then that Liara heard a heavy rasp at the door.

“Come in,” she called.

Before she even finished speaking, the office door swung open. Virgil Vincent stood there, sweat covering his brow as his chest rose and fell. He strode over to Liara who stood, and he motioned for her to step to the side. He exchanged a few words with her in private before rushing back out the door.

Liara watched him, and as the door slammed shut, she could not help but smile. She sat back down, looking at Beatrice. “Thank you for everything you’ve told me, Beatrice. And now I have some rather exciting news for you: Professor Vincent and Professor Popov have located Calix Galen. Contrary to what Enzo Bellerose informed you of, he is alive.”

Beatrice stood suddenly, the now empty silver chalice clattering to the ground at her feet. Calix was alive? Enzo lied to her so she would kill Crix? “Where?” she demanded, her chest hammering in her chest, painfully beating against her sternum. “I need to see him.”

“Hurry after Professor Vincent,” Liara said. “Calix is being treated in Doctor Evans’ personal quarters. But Beatrice,” Liara added, reaching out a hand. “Let them work. He is alive now, but if you get in their way, that could change quickly.”

“Believe me, Headmistress, I won’t do anything that could compromise his life,” she said quickly before darting out the door heading after the handsome young professor in charge of healing. “Too many people have died here already.”

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50 BOOKISH QUESTIONS TAG

This is awesome. I can’t wait to do this! Thanks @kafkalit for including me!

1.       What is your favourite book and/or book series of all time?

·         Choosing a favorite book of all time is a hard thing to do. I would say the one that comes close is The Shining by Stephen King and The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling. I’ve read both multiple times.

2.       What is the longest book you have ever read? How many pages?

·         HP and the OOTP. It’s almost 800 pages.

3.       What is the oldest book you have ever read? (Based on its written date)

·         Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

4.       What is a book series that everyone else loves but you do not?

·         Twilight. Not hating on the series, but it’s just not my cup of tea.

5.       What book or book series would you like to see turned into a film/ TV series?

·         Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. I know there is a 1978 movie but this is such a powerful story, I would love to see it be retold in a newer version. Also, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi and Lisey’s Story by Stephen King.

6.       What is your favourite stand-alone book?

·         It by Stephen King

7.       What is a book that you feel glad for not reading?

·         Twilight

8.       What is a book that you feel guilty for not reading?

·         Lord of the Flies. I have a copy though, and I’ll get to it eventually.

9.       What is a book you have read that is set in your country of birth?

·         So many! But my favorite is probably Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Alison.

10.   What is a book that you own more than one copy of?

·         Harry Potter Series. I have two hard bound copies of the series and one paperback. (I got the paperback for my kids to read with when they get old enough so they don’t destroy my hard-bound versions-teehee) Also, I have E-book and print copies of several books such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Hunger Games and a few more.

11.   What horror book made you really scared?

·         The Shining by Stephen King and also, Revival by Stephen King. Revival is one of those books where it takes SK FORVER to get to the point but when he finally does, it rocks your whole world and haunts you for days. Seriously.

12.   What book do you passionately hate?

·         None that I have read. I have books that I don’t care for but I have never read a book that I hate. Not saying that there isn’t one out there just waiting for me to hate it, but I haven’t found one yet.

13.   What is the biggest book series you have read? How many books are in it?

·         The Harry Potter Series. 7 books in that one.

14.   What book gives you happy memories?

·         Harry Potter. I love HP so much, I have so many wonderful memories of escaping to Hogwarts when I was a teenager.

15.   What book made you cry?

·         Several have made me cry but the worst were Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison and Wire Mesh Mothers by Elizabeth Massey.  Both books are about child abuse and are very depressing.

16.   What book made you laugh?

·         Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. That book is a fantastic balance of humor, horror and sadness. I laughed out loud several times. I can’t wait to finish the series.

17.   What is your favourite book that contains an LGBTQ+ character?

·         Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. I LOVE this book and movie. While Fannie Flagg doesn’t explicitly say that Iggie and Ruth are lesbians, it’s made quite clear. Also, Without You by Anthony Rapp. That one is non-fiction but it is one of my favorite autobiographies ever.

18.   Have you read a book with a male protagonist? What is it?

·         So many. Odd Thomas, The Shining, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Harry Potter, The Inheritance Cycle…

19.   Have you read a book set on another planet? What is it?

·         I don’t think so! I’m trying to remember but I can’t think of any.

20.   Have you ever been glad to not finish a series? Which?

·         No. I have only read a few series and I enjoyed them all.

21.   Have you ever read a book series because you were pressured?

·         This question reads like it’s from an after school special: nerd edition. LOL never have I had another book lover “pressure” me into reading. I can just picture it now, some skinny kid with tape on his glasses and wearing suspenders, approaching me outside a book store and thrusting a book into my hands. “Hey, read this. It will make you feel good, man, real good. Don’t you wanna be cool? Don’t you wanna read what all the other kids are reading?” then disappearing slowly into the shadows, the sound of his asthmatic wheezing following him into the darkness….

22.   What famous author have you not read any books by?

·         Stephanie Meyer. I will not be reading Twilight but I recently picked up The Host at a thrift store. I hear it’s good, so I’m gonna give it a try at some point.

23.   Who is your favourite author of all time?

·         Stephen King

24.   How many bookshelves do you own?

·         Two but one of them was custom built and takes up an entire wall in my guest bedroom.

25.   How many books do you own?

·         460 (Print books. I also have like 200 E-Books.)

26.   What is your favourite non-fiction book?

·         Without You – Anthony Rapp

27.   What is your favourite children’s/middle-grade book?

·         Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

28.   What is your next book on your TBR?

·         Les Miserables

29.   What book are you currently reading?

·         The Lovely Bones

30.   What book are you planning on buying next?

·         Not sure. I just buy from thrift shops and yardsales so I find different books at different times. Although, I am planning on continuing my goal of completing the Fear Street collection and the Sweet Valley Twin collection for my kids.

31.   What was the cheapest book you bought?

·         Like I said, 99% of my books come from yardsales and thrift stores so I get books all the time for 10c and 25c.

32.   What was the most expensive book you bought?

·         Deathly Hallows at the Midnight Premier. I think it was like $25.

33.   What is a book you read after seeing the movie/ TV series?

·         Harry Potter actually, I watched The Chamber of Secrets like 10 times in one weekend when my sister bought the VHS and loved it so much that I went out and bought the book series (as far as it existed at that time. I think it was around book 4?)

34.   What is the newest book you have bought?

·         Deathly Hallows, at the midnight premier. If you mean the latest book, it would be a few used books that I picked up last week at a yardsale.

35.   What three books are you most looking forward to reading this year?

·         The Hunger Games, The Life of Pi and the rest of the Odd Thomas series.

36.   What is a book you love that has a terrible trope? (Love triangle, etc)

·         Probably the Gossip Girl series. It has the whole rich- b*tch trope going on as well as a love triangle and also, Chuck. Read one scene with him and you will understand, lol. I read the entire series for the characters of Dan and Vanessa and do NOT get me started about how pissed I was that the TV show changed Vanessa from her magnificent self to the girly little girl-next-door. Ugh. I literally stopped watching the moment that Vanessa appeared. No.

37.   Have you read a book in a different language? What was it?

·         Yes! I read a couple of children’s books in Chinese and Korean back when I was studying those languages.

38.   What is a book you’ve read that is set in a time period before you were born?

·         I love historical fiction so there are many but to pick one, I will go with Son of the Sword by J. Ardian Lee. It was one of those fantastic books that I happened up on in a Dollar Tree once.

39.   What book offended you?

·         None, really. I don’t get offended easily.

40.   What is the weirdest book you have read?

·         I love this question because it lets me bring up this book called, The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas. Geez that book is trippy.

41.   What is your favourite duology?

·         The Shining & Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

42.   What is your favourite trilogy?

·         Most of the series that I read have more than 3 books. So, I will go with the Lord of the Rings.

43.   What book did you buy because of its cover?

·         Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King. I would have bought this book anyway, but man that cover is fantastic. Without a doubt my favorite book cover ever. I almost want a tattoo of it.

44.   What is a book that you love, but has a terrible cover?

·         20th century Ghosts by Joe Hill. That was my first Joe Hill book and I didn’t even now who he was (SK’s son) and I almost didn’t buy it because of the cover. But, it was on sale for like $3 so I went for it. Man, I’m glad I did. Joe Hill is such a talented writer. Who would have thought a story about a blow up doll could make me cry.

45.   Do you own a poetry anthology? What is your favourite poem from it?

·         Several. My favorite is the poems of Emily Dickinson. Hope is the Thing With Feathers is my favorite.

46.   Do you own any colouring books based off other books?

·         No but I really want the Harry Potter ones.

47.   Do you own any historical fiction?

·         Oh yeah.

48.   What book made you angry?

·         Wire Mesh Mothers, Bastard out of Carolina and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry made me angrier than any books I have ever read.

49.   What book has inspired you?

·         Lisey’s Story. It’s all about accepting the present and the past and moving on. Beautiful story.

50.   What book got you into reading?

·         I got my first book when I was 3. I always loved reading. I honestly can’t remember, because I have been a book worm since I could hold a book.

I tag @misstchotchke and (If you haven’t already) @macrolit

[viralhottopics]

Sir John Hurt obituary

British actor became an overnight sensation after playing Quentin Crisp in the 1975 television film The Naked Civil Servant

Few British actors of recent years have been held in as much affection as Sir John Hurt, who has died aged 77. That affection is not just because of his unruly lifestyle he was a hell-raising chum of Oliver Reed, Peter OToole and Richard Harris, and was married four times or even his string of performances as damaged, frail or vulnerable characters, though that was certainly a factor. There was something about his innocence, open-heartedness and his beautiful speaking voice that made him instantly attractive.

As he aged, his face developed more creases and folds than the old map of the Indies, inviting comparisons with the famous lived-in faces of WH Auden and Samuel Beckett, in whose reminiscent Krapps Last Tape he gave a definitive solo performance towards the end of his career. One critic said he could pack a whole emotional universe into the twitch of an eyebrow, a sardonic slackening of the mouth. Hurt himself said: What I am now, the man, the actor, is a blend of all that has happened.

For theatregoers of my generation, his pulverising, hysterically funny performance as Malcolm Scrawdyke, leader of the Party of Dynamic Erection at a Yorkshire art college, in David Halliwells Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs, was a totemic performance of the mid-1960s; another was David Warners Hamlet, and both actors appeared in the 1974 film version of Little Malcolm. The play lasted only two weeks at the Garrick Theatre (I saw the final Saturday matine), but Hurts performance was already a minor cult, and one collected by the Beatles and Laurence Olivier.

He became an overnight sensation with the public at large as Quentin Crisp the self-confessed stately homo of England in the 1975 television film The Naked Civil Servant, directed by Jack Gold, playing the outrageous, original and defiant aesthete whom Hurt had first encountered as a nude model in his painting classes at St Martins School of Art, before he trained as an actor.

Crisp called Hurt my representative here on Earth, ironically claiming a divinity at odds with his low-life louche-ness and poverty. But Hurt, a radiant vision of ginger quiffs and curls, with a voice kippered in gin and as studiously inflected as a deadpan mix of Nol Coward, Coral Browne and Julian Clary, in a way propelled Crisp to the stars, and certainly to his transatlantic fame, a journey summarised when Hurt recapped Crisps life in An Englishman in New York (2009), 10 years after his death.

Hurt said some people had advised him that playing Crisp would end his career. Instead, it made everything possible. Within five years he had appeared in four of the most extraordinary films of the late 1970s: Ridley Scotts Alien (1979), the brilliantly acted sci-fi horror movie in which Hurt from whose stomach the creature exploded was the first victim; Alan Parkers Midnight Express, for which he won his first Bafta award as a drug-addicted convict in a Turkish torture prison; Michael Ciminos controversial western Heavens Gate (1980), now a cult classic in its fully restored format; and David Lynchs The Elephant Man (1980), with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.

In the latter, as John Merrick, the deformed circus attraction who becomes a celebrity in Victorian society and medicine, Hurt won a second Bafta award and Lynchs opinion that he was the greatest actor in the world. He infused a hideous outer appearance there were 27 moving pieces in his face mask; he spent nine hours a day in make-up with a deeply moving, humane quality. He followed up with a small role Jesus in Mel Brookss History of the World: Part 1 (1981), the movie where the waiter at the Last Supper says, Are you all together, or is it separate cheques?

Hurt was an actor freed of all convention in his choice of roles, and he lived his life accordingly. Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, he was the youngest of three children of a Church of England vicar and mathematician, the Reverend Arnould Herbert Hurt, and his wife, Phyllis (ne Massey), an engineer with an enthusiasm for amateur dramatics.

After a miserable schooling at St Michaels in Sevenoaks, Kent (where he said he was sexually abused), and the Lincoln grammar school (where he played Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest), he rebelled as an art student, first at the Grimsby art school where, in 1959, he won a scholarship to St Martins, before training at Rada for two years in 1960.

He made a stage debut that same year with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Arts, playing a semi-psychotic teenage thug in Fred Watsons Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger and then joined the cast of Arnold Weskers national service play, Chips With Everything, at the Vaudeville. Still at the Arts, he was Len in Harold Pinters The Dwarfs (1963) before playing the title role in John Wilsons Hamp (1964) at the Edinburgh Festival, where critic Caryl Brahms noted his unusual ability and blessed quality of simplicity.

This was a more relaxed, free-spirited time in the theatre. Hurt recalled rehearsing with Pinter when silver salvers stacked with gins and tonics, ice and lemon, would arrive at 11.30 each morning as part of the stage management routine. On receiving a rude notice from the distinguished Daily Mail critic Peter Lewis, he wrote, Dear Mr Lewis, Whooooops! Yours sincerely, John Hurt and received the reply, Dear Mr Hurt, thank you for short but tedious letter. Yours sincerely, Peter Lewis.

After Little Malcolm, he played leading roles with the RSC at the Aldwych notably in David Mercers Belchers Luck (1966) and as the madcap dadaist Tristan Tzara in Tom Stoppards Travesties (1974) as well as Octavius in Shaws Man and Superman in Dublin in 1969 and an important 1972 revival of Pinters The Caretaker at the Mermaid. But his stage work over the next 10 years was virtually non-existent as he followed The Naked Civil Servant with another pyrotechnical television performance as Caligula in I, Claudius; Raskolnikov in Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment and the Fool to Oliviers King Lear in Michael Elliotts 1983 television film.

His first big movie had been Fred Zinnemanns A Man for All Seasons (1966) with Paul Scofield (Hurt played Richard Rich) but his first big screen performance was an unforgettable Timothy Evans, the innocent framed victim in Richard Fleischers 10 Rillington Place (1970), with Richard Attenborough as the sinister landlord and killer John Christie. He claimed to have made 150 movies and persisted in playing those he called the unloved people like us, the inside-out people, who live their lives as an experiment, not as a formula. Even his Ben Gunn-like professor in Steven Spielbergs Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) fitted into this category, though not as resoundingly, perhaps, as his quivering Winston Smith in Michael Radfords terrific Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984); or as a prissy weakling, Stephen Ward, in Michael Caton-Joness Scandal (1989) about the Profumo affair; or again as the lonely writer Giles DeAth in Richard Kwietniowskis Love and Death on Long Island.

His later, sporadic theatre performances included a wonderful Trigorin in Chekhovs The Seagull at the Lyric, Hammersmith, in 1985 (with Natasha Richardson as Nina); Turgenevs incandescent idler Rakitin in a 1994 West End production by Bill Bryden of A Month in the Country, playing a superb duet with Helen Mirrens Natalya Petrovna; and another memorable match with Penelope Wilton in Brian Friels exquisite 70-minute doodle Afterplay (2002), in which two lonely Chekhov characters Andrei from Three Sisters, Sonya from Uncle Vanya find mutual consolation in a Moscow caf in the 1920s. The play originated, like his Krapp, at the Gate Theatre in Dublin.

His last screen work included, in the Harry Potter franchise, the first, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (2001), and last two, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts One and Two (2010, 2011), as the kindly wand-maker Mr Ollivander; Roland Joffs 1960s remake of Brighton Rock (2010); and the 50th anniversary television edition of Dr Who (2013), playing a forgotten incarnation of the title character.

Because of his distinctive, virtuosic vocal attributes was that what a brandy-injected fruitcake sounds like, or peanut butter spread thickly with a serrated knife? he was always in demand for voiceover gigs in animated movies: the heroic rabbit leader, Hazel, in Watership Down (1978), Aragorn/Strider in Lord of the Rings (1978) and the Narrator in Lars von Triers Dogville (2004). In 2015 he took the Peter OToole stage role in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell for BBC Radio 4. He had foresworn alcohol for a few years not for health reasons, he said, but because he was bored with it.

Hurts sister was a teacher in Australia, his brother a convert to Roman Catholicism and a monk and writer. After his first short marriage to the actor Annette Robinson (1960, divorced 1962) he lived for 15 years in London with the French model Marie-Lise Volpeliere Pierrot. She was killed in a riding accident in 1983. In 1984 he married, secondly, a Texan, Donna Peacock (divorced in 1990), living with her for a time in Nairobi until the relationship came under strain from his drinking and her dalliance with a gardener. With his third wife, Jo Dalton (married in 1990, divorced 1995), he had two sons, Nicolas and Alexander (Sasha), who survive him, as does his fourth wife, the actor and producer Anwen Rees-Myers, whom he married in 2005 and with whom he lived in Cromer, Norfolk. Hurt was made CBE in 2004, given a Bafta lifetime achievement award in 2012 and knighted in the New Years honours list of 2015.

John Vincent Hurt, actor, born 22 January 1940, died 27 January 2017

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