#Tobe Style

[mariocki]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

"You have one choice, boy: sex or the saw. Sex is... well, nobody knows. But the saw, the saw is family."

[raythekiller]

could I request Ticci Toby, EJ and Nina with a hypersexual reader that has a very "innocent" outward appearance?

also I love your writing style, especially how you write Ej and tobes' :33

🗒 ❛ Innocent-Looking Hypersexual Reader ༉‧₊˚✧

Featuring: Ticci Toby, Eyeless Jack, Nina The Killer

#Notes: warning for some nsfw mentions (nothing too explicit)

pronouns used: they/them

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꒰⸝⸝₊⛓┊Ticci Toby

You've got him fooled. You could be sitting there thinking the most ourageous and horny thing ever and he'll just think to himself "Haha Y/N is so cute and naive look at them :) such a baby". It's not until you get in a relationship and have sex for the first time (yes, you have to be dating this guy to get laid with him) that he notices like. Wait a second there. The fuck is going on here. Might struggle a bit to keep up with you cause honestly? He's not the most horny person around.

꒰⸝⸝₊⛓┊Eyeless Jack

You can't fool this guy. He has an animal-like sense of smell, so he can literally smell your arousal from a distance before you even walk into the room. At first didn't wanna believe that it was you, you look so innocent after all, but there's not much room for denying it. If you manage to start dating him, he'll be happy to help you... satiate your needs (after a long ass slowburn) since he was already hot and bothered when smelling it from afar anyway.

꒰⸝⸝₊⛓┊Nina The Killer

Just like her for real. She's horny 25/8, even if it doesn't look like it, so when she finds out you're just like her? Immediate friends with benefits, thought she won't know you're the same way unless you explicitly tell her about it. Goes to you whenever she gets slightly worked up for whatever reason and will be ecstatic to help you if you do the same. Fuck buddies on main (unless you wanna be a bit more).

[tr-mha-fan]

At first please excuse my bad english. But I wanted to ask if you can write a oneshot/headcone about bakugo in which the reader get hurt and he is afraid to loose her. Thank you ^^

And by the way I really like your writing style:)

Awwww! Thanks Anon! This is kind of my first real request, so Im happy! Here😉

⚠️TW⚠️: mentions of injury, death, depression, sh, and su/c/de(these will be italicized, so feel free to read)

Bakugou when his S/O gets hurt

You two are in a battle against villains

You get hurt when you were fighting 3 villains at once, on your own

You lose consciousness and are now in a coma

the doctors don't know when you'll wake up

Bakugou blames himself for not protecting you correctly

He stays by your side the whole time

Sleeps in the hospital, on a chair, his head on your bed

Has nightmares of the moment when you got stabbed

He talks in his nightmares, his voice wavering and quivering

"Don't leave me, please..."

"I can't live without you!"

Cries when he's alone in your hospital room with you, eyeing your sleeping state, noticing how peaceful you look

When you wake up, he starts crying, no matter who else is in the room with y'all

He clings to you like a little child does to his mother

Doesn't leave your side AT ALL during your 2 week recovery stay in the hospital unless you're going to the bathroom

When you're released, he doesn't let you do ANYTHING

Carries everything for you, even your school bag

When you're going somewhere he has to carry you AT LEAST half the way (whether it's bridal style or piggy back)

Once you're good enough to start training again, he convinces Aizawa-sensei to put you against the weakest classmates

Makes sure everyone goes easy on you until you're fully recovered

If you guys have to fight real life villains again (I mean, this is class 1a, of course they're gonna fight real villains) he stays beside you the whole entire fight, making sure you don't get hurt again

Now, if instead, you don't survive (if you get triggered by the TW's at the beginning, I advise you don't read this part)

When your heart monitor flatlines, he goes into a state of denial

Tears start streaming down his cheeks without him even noticing

The doctors rush in to see what's wrong

Bakugou starts blaming the doctors, saying they didn't do enough to save you

He falls to his knees, burying his face in his hands as he bawls, now blaming himself for not protecting you

He refuses to leave your body, even when his mom tries to pull him out the room

He gets severely depressed

Doesn't talk to anyone, not during classes, training, or just regular days

Everyone else is also affected by your death, but Katsuki is 100x worse

All your other classmates (specifically the Bakusquad) try to cheer him up, despite their own pain

Bakugou loses it, and starts self harming, blaming himself for your death, that if he had been a better boyfriend, you wouldn't have died

After a short while, two months tobe exact, he has had enough

He decides to end it, jumping off the roof in the middle of the night

Well hello there hoomans, I hope you enjoyed, and once again, Thanks anon! As you can see, I love angst, so I put that angstier ending, hehe 😈

Kazutora out!

[pucca-lore]

Character Profile: Garu

Garu is a descendant of ninjas, and his main goal in life is to follow in their footsteps*. His training is often derailed by Pucca, Abyo, or Tobe.

He has the ability to clone himself and shape-shift, as well as super speed. He also has excellent balance.

More info below cut

Garu, as a character, doesn't seem to entertain nonsense and is completely dedicated to his ninja training. He also enjoys fishing, as shown in the show and multiple shorts. In Funny Love, he had a very shallow view of honor and his role as a ninja, doing things less because they're right and more because they'd get him a better reputation. However, he still did care for his friends.

The first biography is older than the second.

*Early bios state he's trying to restore his family name, but this wouldn't be mentioned again after the 2000s.

The website from 2006 would show a training center that Garu would be shown to use in the shorts. However, this training center would never appear in any season of the show, as he does most of his training at the Turtle Dojo under Chang.

This biography from 2019 is completely different from any of the previous biographies, and says nothing about his ancestry.

English translation: "A calm and powerful warrior with the goal of being knowledgeable, he studies magic to clone himself while practicing martial arts and planting green tea on the mountain with his cat, Mio."

(Translation provided by contributor morbid-melody)

Age: 27/12

Pucca is confirmed, in general, to have been born in the year 2000 and age like a normal person outside of the show. Since Garu is two years older than her, at her current age of 24, Garu would be 26.

In the show, he is still 12. He would turn 12 in the season 1 episode "The Cursed Tie" and remain that way for the rest of the show. In the shorts, he's at least old enough to drive, but since Pucca already drives a scooter, this isn't the best measurement of the characters' ages and maturity. In a naver post, he's said to turn 13 in the show, but since Pucca turning 11 was retconned, it's safe to assume that the case is the same for him.

Birthday: November 11 (Scorpio)

While his age hasn't changed, in recent years Garu's birthday was changed to November 11th.

Relationships

He is best friends with Abyo, and Tobe is his enemy. He's also good friends with Ssoso, but their relationship is never fleshed out. He has a romantic connection with Pucca and doesn't really have a relationship with Ching. Chang is his mentor, and the friend of Garu's deceased father. Mio is his pet cat.

Abyo and Garu, while both displaying different fighting styles, are shown to be good friends. He seems to be slightly annoyed by most of Abyo’s antics, but for the most part, he has a positive view of him and hangs out with him often. They became friends after fighting for 10 days, the battle resulting in a tie.

Tobe is his enemy. Tobe wants desperately to be better than Garu, and Garu wants desperately to be better than Tobe. Despite the game Pucca: Power Up showing that Tobe's dad killed Garu’s dad*, their relationship doesn't really seem to reflect this most of the time, and so this should be taken with a grain of salt. Despite being younger than Tobe, Garu always wins. Mostly because of Pucca's interference.

Ssoso is described as "Garu's friend from shaolin" in his most recent biography. In Funny Love, Ssoso doesn't really appear in many episodes and doesn't really hang out with Garu often. His relationship with Garu would seem to disappear completely in Love Recipe, as Ssoso was changed from around Garu’s age to an elderly man.

Pucca is a source of annoyance and distraction for Garu. Depending on whether you're watching Funny Love or Love Recipe, he appears to either hate Pucca entirely or care for her a lot, only disliking her affection because he's shy. While Garu is never confirmed to like Pucca in the show, In the shorts, they have a much closer relationship. They share a bed in one them and are often shown to be on dates or other romantic occasions. In one of the shorts, titled The Ring, Garu confesses his feelings to Pucca, melting down his sword to create a ring for her. In general, the shorts show him disliking public displays of affection more than Pucca herself.

In the 2017 version of the Pucca Club website, it's stated he doesn't hate her affection, and that he's just shy. While these bios seem to have been created for Love Recipe, the in-between style and mention of the scrapped character "Ronni Kim" suggest that they were created early in the show's development, and therefore shouldn't be attributed to the show (just to play it safe). Due to the fact this was hosted on the website at all suggests that they're at least mostly accurate. Accurate enough, at least, that they would still be seen as acceptable to display on the site.

English link

Korean link

His relationship with Ching only seems to exist at all because Ching and Pucca are best friends.

Chang is Garu’s mentor, and the closest thing he has to a father figure.

Garu's father is dead according to Chang's bio the 2003 VOOZ website, and his mother isn't in the picture. He tries looking for her in some of the comics. (Currently unsourced and based on word of mouth, as I cannot find these specific comics. This is due to the fact there are multiple different comics based on Pucca, and I don't know its title or when it was made yet.)

Mio and Garu are very close, as Mio is his beloved pet.

*Some people seem to believe that it was Tobe that killed Garu’s dad, but Tobe is described as "a little older than Garu" in his description on the 2006 Pucca Club website, and confirmed to be 14 in an (admittedly outdated) lore book from the 2000s. Garu is shown to be a small child when this happens, and since Tobe is only around two years older than Garu, it's a bit of a stretch to say that it was Tobe himself. If it was supposed to be Tobe himself, that would mean that the developers of the game were under the impression that Tobe is a fully grown adult and were never corrected, which makes its reliability as a source of lore even more questionable.

Trivia

-In certain shorts, the heart on Garu's chest beats like an actual heart when he gets overwhelmed.

Anything in this post is subject to change. If you're going to reblog any of the bios from this blog, please make sure you reblog the latest version. Thank you!

[ilyasorokinn]

works in progress,

here’s a list of things i'm either currently writing, plan on writing, or just ideas. crossed out means being editing and to be posted in the next few days. please be patient and know i have school, and have other things to do. thank you :)

standalone fics,

✷ tutor girl (quinn hughes) - quinn's struggling in one of his classes, so he finds a tutor. (part of "the hughes gang" series.)

✷ untitled (freddie andersen) - alma, still too young to understand what her dad does, goes to a game and doesn't recognize him in his goalie uniform. (part of the "andersen adventures" series)

✷ y/n and hayden christensen being in love for 10 minutes straight (hayden christensen) - the title pretty much explains what this is about.

✷ sid the kid: the greatest of all time (sidney crosby) - told in documentary form, sidney crosby discusses his life from the moment he was drafted to joe. (part of “the crosby clan” series)

✷ untitled (jeremy swayman) - jeremy runs the boston marathon, and along the way, his favorite cheerleaders are there for cheer him on. (part of the "swinging with the swaymans" series.)

✷ untitled (jimmy garoppolo) - jimmy knows how hard it si to move, so he tries to help make the move as seamless as possible.

✷ untitled (sidney crosby) - although not everyone is a sidney crosby fan, everyone is a y/n crosby fan. (part of "the crosby clan" series.)

✷ barzal's in toronto (mat barzal) - with mat barzal going to the all-star games and the games going old school, what better person to invite. tobe a celebrity captain than y/n y/l/n-barzal? (part of "the golden boy" series.)

series coming soon,

✷ i love you so series - a series of fics based on the song “i love you so” by the walters.

✷ the love story series - a series of fics based on different romance movies.

✷ taylor’s house series - a series of fics based on different harry styles songs.

✷ meet me at midnight series - a series of fics based on the “midnights” album by taylor swift.

✷ feels like series - a series of fics based on different gracie abrams songs.

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[seireitonin]

Familar

(Nina and Toby based off a comment I got on a video a year ago :3)

The day started like normal. The two killers waking up from their long night out in the woods, hunting people and proceeding to do whatever they wanted after.

Nina lifts her sore body out of bed and looks over at Toby, who’s still sleeping. She smiles softly, rubbing his soft brown wavy hair.

Speaking of hair, hers was a mess from the night before along with Toby and herself being wild sleepers. She makes her way over to the mirror, looking in it as she sucks her teeth. Tangled and matted pink and black locks making a mess on her head. She was so tired last night she didn’t put a bonnet on, this morning she pays the price.

She pulls out her phone playing one of her playlists quietly to the point where she could hear it, but hopefully not disturb her sleeping partner in crime.

She looks into the mirror again, her dark skin looking dull and washed out, eye bags visible. Nina groans as she didn’t take her makeup off either. She takes a makeup wipe and violently rubs her face. Nina knows it’s not good for her skin, but she was already burned with huge scars from the smile she stupidly cut for Jeff when she was 13, so she didn’t care too much.

She starts to take a brush and yank it through her hair, just wanting to get this tedious process over with, dropping it loudly on accident.

“Shit!” She whisper yelled not wanting to wake Toby.

He stirred and woke up anyway.

“Morning, Ni-Ni!” The brown haired man spoke to her, his voice rough but cheerful to see her.

“Heyy ,Tobes!” Nina replies back with a nickname of her own.

“Damn your hair looks crazy as hell…” Toby’s usual no filter coming through.

“Thanks, Toby…” Nina replies sarcastically.

“Told you to keep your bonnet by your bed but hey…”

“No one asked you!”

Toby chuckles as he loves messing with her, like he does with everyone, but he messes with Nina out of love.

He watches her comb out her matted locks, her emo music playlist playing as he watches. Nina is so focused on her task she’s not singing the words as usual. It’s rare for her to be this focused. They make small talk about the night before as Nina finally finishes her hair.

“Finally!” She tosses her brush on the vanity, throwing her head back and lifting her arms in victory.

“Congratulations! Not so bad when you have me to entertain you.”

“I guess…” Nina teases. But they both know she agrees.

She takes a look in her mirror and spots a hair tie next to her brush on the vanity.

“Haven’t done this in a while….” She starts to put her pink and black hair in a high ponytail, a hair style she hadn’t done in years, feeling slightly nostalgic.

Toby watches her, a memory flashing in his head. Where has he seen that hairstyle in his past? What girl did he know that wore her hair like that? Obviously Nina wore her hair like this often in the past, but it’s not her he’s thinking of.

He zones out, thinking about it. He remembers a girl playing music as he watched her put her hair up a long time ago. The slight smell of vanilla filling his nose. He can’t remember her face, who she is, her name. Nothing. But he remembers that hair style. A long blond ponytail. The thought brings him comfort. Blonde hair and the smell of vanilla and soft humming coming from her as she wraps her hair in the black ponytail holder. What song was it? It had to be from 2009 at the latest…..God, what he wouldn’t give to remember right now.

He remembers her voice being soft. Holding her hand as they walked down train tracks. It couldn’t be a girlfriend. Not only was he too young but he was bullied in school. There’s no way he’d have one. Not till Natalie when he was nineteen and now Nina at 29. So it couldn’t be that.

Toby thinks of the warm feeling that arises in him. A family member? His mom? A cousin? A sister? Did he ever have one? He can’t remember for the life of him.

But he remembers that hair style. Looking at it as she got ready. Looking at her long blonde locks as she held his hand and guided him. Feeling them between his fingers as she held him. But he can’t put a face, a name an age on her. Nothing. Just soft humming and blonde hair with warmth in her heart.

“Did I��have someone?” Toby thinks to himself still zoned out. “Did someone before Natalie…love me?”

Nina’s voice snaps him out of his thoughts.

“Toby! I was talking to you for the last ten minutes! Ugh I feel so stupid now! I didnt know you were zoning out!” Nina exclaims. She’s not upset or anything. Just teasing him.

“Sorry! I was just….thinking of someone.” He trails off slightly.

“Oh? Who?” Nina asks, tilting her head slightly, ready to listen to what he has to say.

Toby hesitates. Not wanting to explain what he can’t even remember. “No one important.” He shrugs it off. He knows in his head that’s not true, but he doesn’t want to dwell on it anymore.

“Oh…uh… want me to make breakfast?” Nina asks trying to get his mind off what could possibly be causing him discomfort or distress.

“Yeah! That would be nice.”

She takes him softly by the hand, leading him to the kitchen. Toby looks at her back. Her long ponytail flowing down it. The familiar feeling lingering in him. Someone taking care of him with a pony tail. How could he even explain that?

“….So nice….” He repeats to himself softly, letting the girl he loves with the ponytail, guide him.

Just like he’s done before. Just like he can barely remember.

[finalgirlminamurray]

remember when halloween 2018 (or as i like to call it, halloween h40) came out and people were making those flowchart-style diagrams explaining the various halloween timelines? i like when people try to do that for the texas chainsaw massacre series because it is a fool's errand. you cannot divide that series into distinct specific continuities because there aren't any. there's a good argument to be made that every single film in that series takes place in its own completely separate timeline because it so often does not bother to meaningfully connect them beyond the single recurring character of leatherface.

i've mentioned before that tcm2 is my favorite sequel and the only one i actually like and will accept as a canon sequel to the original film, and part of that is because despite the complete 180 in tone it does, it's the only one that bothers at all to be a sequel. i think it's the only one that makes sense as a continuation of the first movie - the only glaring continuity errors are confined to the opening scroll text, which you can take or leave as part of the films' canon. (by this i mean the first movie's opening implies that the sawyers' crimes were discovered after sally's escape, while the second film explicitly says no evidence was found. also it retcons sally's last name to be "hardesty-enright" instead of just making lefty's last name also hardesty, for whatever reason.) there's one newly introduced member of the family but you can infer why he wasn't there in the first movie, and the one who isn't there this time has a good reason to be absent (he's died.) one of the main characters in this movie is a relative of the first film's final girl and his involvement in the plot is explicitly connected to what happened to his niece and nephew. the events of the first movie clearly happened in this universe. low bar, i know.

this could be attributed to this being the only sequel also directed by tobe hooper, although the original film's screenwriter did not return, and him having more of a vested interest in continuing the story of his own work. most of the original film's cast did not return for this one (can't say i blame them), but they work with that pretty well. i do think the film ends in a way that pretty decisively puts the brakes on any possible continuation from there, which could be attributed to hooper not really wanting to do a sequel in the first place and trying not to get asked back for another one. (i agree this was not a film that should ever have had sequels, much less become a full-on franchise. but you can tell that upon having to do it they were just like fuck it, let's have fun. hence the tone.) not that that stopped the studios from valiantly trying again and again to profit off of this title.

which might explain why the later sequels are so particularly weird. they don't really have a lot to go off of, i guess. i think part of the problem is that this is one of the few slasher films where the villain is actually a group of people, not a single recurring killer or identity various killers take up. they do have a silent, masked slasher who can be played by whichever new stunt guy you get for each film, but what about the rest of the family? it's always felt important to me that there isn't anyone outside of this isolated little unit in the first movie, but sequels keep inventing totally new characters out of nowhere with no explanation as to where they've been in previous installments. doesn't matter - we're in a new continuity now. tcm3 does not logically follow in any real way from tcm2 or tcm1. it's not a sequel despite the number in the title. it's a reboot.

(i've kind of come around on tcm4 aka tcm: the next generation. i used to think it was the worst sequel but now i think i get what it's trying to do a little better, although it is a pretty stupid movie in a lot of ways. some people have described tcm2 as a deliberate parody of the first film but i think that applies way better to the next generation, seeing how it follows a lot of the same plot beats but done in a more outlandish and parodic way. also, hey: same screenwriter as the original, returning this time as director.)

then the remake made a shit ton of money and kickstarted a new direction for 2000s horror (great. thanks for that.) and got a prequel that also actually made sense as existing in the same continuity as the film it was a prequel to. (again it probably really helped that they were able to get most of the cast back. no need to invent new family members when you still have all the same people playing them.) then in 2013 we got a sequel that promised to Finally be a Direct sequel to the original movie and...it made no sense as one. they try to pick up right where the original left off but right away there are once again a whole bunch of new characters who definitely weren't there in the first movie suddenly appearing in the house, including a baby whose existence is crucial to the plot.

(i'm sure everyone knows about the bizarre timeline decisions of this one, namely the main character ostensibly having been born in the same year as the events of tcm1 but only being about 18 years old during the main events of texas chainsaw 3d, despite it seeming to take place in the modern day. however there is an explanation for that! originally the film was supposed to take place in the early 90s when a character born in 1973 would have been that age, but studio meddling forced them to reshoot it to be 2013. you might notice that any mention or depiction of the exact year the opening scene takes place seems conveniently obscured in this film, implying that it is yet another alternate timeline where the events of tcm1 occurred sometime in the 1990s. this also serves as further demonstration that 1. studio executives are the dumbest people alive, and 2. people really don't care that much about the first movie. more on that later.)

leatherface 2017 is an attempt at a prequel that also makes little to no sense as a backstory for its titular character; i wouldn't be surprised if it started out as an original screenplay that got retrofitted into a tcm movie. there are no new sawyer relatives invented for this film (i don't think), but it does seem strangely insistent on keeping its leatherface away from the family for as much of the film as possible, making it feel especially like it didn't actually want to be a tcm movie. (the twist of the titular character's identity is clearly meant primarily to be surprising and not to make sense, but i can only say: there's no way that the original film's leatherface grew up apart from his birth family for that long and also used to be a "normal"-by-neurotypical-standards, verbal kid. different continuity.)

then in 2022 we get yet another attempt at No Guys Seriously For Real, This is a Direct Sequel to the First Movie, and i should have known things weren't looking good when it was announced this was actually getting dumped on netflix in february but my expectations plummeted to rock bottom when that teaser came out that thought the most relevant part of the movie to sell to people was a "canceled" joke. jesus. tcm:tng i'm sorry, this is the clear worst sequel. (if it was just that one dumb joke it might not be, but there's so much more that's awful in this movie - whatever.) anyway continuity-wise i guess this isn't completely disconnected, there is clear acknowledgement that the events of the first movie happened, but it's really not relevant to the main plot at all, when you get right down to it. pro tip: if a slasher sequel advertises the return of the original film's final girl, she will most likely not be in the film for more than five minutes. there's some implied backstory about leatherface running away to this neighboring town and being taken in by the lady who runs the orphanage, but honestly this could easily be yet another different continuity where leatherface is the adopted son of a kindly old lady (who still has a confederate flag in her window, jfc, i think this is the first time that imagery has ever been used in this series and it's associated with a character who's supposed to be sympathetic??) who was keeping a lid on his murderous tendencies before she died. points for effort i guess but i don't think it deserves much.

i really don't know why this series in particular is like this. most horror franchises will have their movies clearly follow each other and exist within the same continuity, sometimes with a reboot or two if they've gone on long enough (see: halloween having at least three different timelines, but all clearly branching from the same source.) if it's supposed to be an anthology series, they'll just...say that. i've heard it said that this series works best when viewed as variations on a theme, like the original film's events are an urban legend of sorts being told and retold around the campfire and every version is different because everyone remembers it differently or makes up their own. i do like that and think it makes the franchise make more sense but i know most people watching these movies aren't thinking about it like that, they're thinking of them all as sequels to the same movie, with the remake and its prequel being the only ones clearly existing in their own separate continuity.

it's a little sad to see how no one making official movies in the series seems to really care that much about the ostensible source material. maybe i'm biased because it's the film my brain latched onto the hardest when i started really getting into horror, but i think this movie is so interesting and there's so much there to explore with the little we're given about these characters and their dynamics and what they do and why they do it, and even if you can't really dive into all that in a movie you could at least use what's already there for your sequel and most of them just...don't. like they don't seem to have watched the original movie even before writing a sequel to it, just going off their own vague memories about that one scary movie about a guy with a human skin mask and a chainsaw. i know i shouldn't be expecting any more from a slasher franchise on its 9th installment but...whatever. it is what it is. this was never supposed to be a franchise in the first place. at least i can shout into the void about my thoughts and feelings on here.

(i think i read somewhere that the filmmakers were actually forbidden from referencing cannibalism in the script for texas chainsaw 3d and if that's true...oh boy. talk about missing the point. if you feel like something significant is missing in the later films in this series that's probably part of it.)

[brokehorrorfan]

Madrid Skateboards is celebrating The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's 50th anniversary with a line of skateboards dedicated to the Tobe Hooper classic, expected to arrive on or before August 18.

10 limited edition designs are available in various sizes/styles - including a chainsaw-shaped deck! - with prices ranging from $79.95 to $184.95. The collection also includes a T-shirt ($39.95) and custom wheels ($46.95).

[mediamixs]

Top 10 horror movies from the 70's

The 1970s was a pivotal decade for horror films, characterized by innovative storytelling, groundbreaking special effects, and a willingness to tackle social issues. Here are ten notable horror movies from that era:

The Exorcist (1973) Directed by William Friedkin, this film follows the harrowing possession of a young girl and the desperate attempts of her mother and two priests to save her. Its shocking imagery and intense themes of faith and evil made it a cultural phenomenon.

Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Tobe Hooper's chilling tale of a group of friends who encounter a family of cannibals in rural Texas set the standard for slasher films. Its raw, documentary-style cinematography and minimalist approach to horror left a lasting impact on the genre.

Halloween (1978) Directed by John Carpenter, this film introduced audiences to Michael Myers, a masked killer who escapes from a mental institution to stalk babysitters on Halloween night. Its use of suspense, iconic score, and the "final girl" trope reshaped horror for decades.

Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971), directed by John Hancock. This psychological horror film tells the story of Jessica, a young woman recently released from a mental institution. She and her husband move to a secluded farmhouse in rural New England, hoping to start anew.

The Omen (1976) Directed by Richard Donner, this film revolves around a couple who unknowingly adopt the Antichrist. The atmospheric score and unsettling narrative explore themes of fate and evil, making it a classic of supernatural horror.

Carrie (1976) Based on Stephen King's novel and directed by Brian De Palma, "Carrie" tells the story of a high school girl with telekinetic powers who seeks revenge on her tormentors. The film's themes of bullying and isolation are as impactful as its shocking climax.

Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg's thriller about a great white shark terrorizing a beach town became a blockbuster hit and redefined the horror genre. Its combination of suspense, adventure, and iconic score made it a template for future thrillers.

Suspiria (1977) Directed by Dario Argento, this Italian horror film is known for its stunning visuals and a haunting score by Goblin. It follows a ballet student who uncovers a supernatural conspiracy at a dance academy, blending psychological horror with giallo elements.

Don't Look Now (1973) Directed by Nicolas Roeg, this haunting film explores grief and loss as a couple travels to Venice after the death of their daughter. The eerie atmosphere and surreal imagery contribute to its psychological horror and emotional depth.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Philip Kaufman's remake of the 1956 classic delves into themes of identity and paranoia as alien pods replace humans with emotionless duplicates. Its commentary on conformity and societal fear resonated with audiences during a time of upheaval.

These films not only scared audiences but also pushed the boundaries of storytelling, paving the way for future horror cinema.

[kemafili]

dungeon meshi final chapter out, cant wait for ur opinion........

I love this question I have been dying to answer this okay so. First of all, I waited the entire day for the dungeon update to drop, I was clutching my pearls and sweating and actually shedding skin and molting and losing hair just for it to drop. Around 4 or 5 pm I start to get hungry as fuck and I don’t have money so I post the adopts to buy chicken and eventually I can afford the chicken so I order the fried chicken and it arrived at around like 6 pm, I have my fried chicken next to me and I really want to eat it because I hadn’t ate anything else that day other than like the 2 biscuits that came with the order and I had been cleaning the house earlier so I was just making hunger through the entire process. I decide that it’d be magical if I waited for the update to come out and be eating at the same time as I’m reading like a grown ass man watching the superbowl right, and so I wait, and I wait , and I keep waiting and I know in the bottom of my starving feeble little heart that the raws came out late as hell and that EverydayHeroes was working their machinery like crazy to typeset and translate the entire thing so of course it’d come out like late but I still persisted, I didn’t ate my chicken becuase i wanted to keep waiting and hoping the update would come out, 9/10pm rolls around and my boyfriend is back to his home and We hang out for like 3 hours while I’m still persistently waiting on the background for the update to drop, nothing, then I realize my food had like fries on it also so I decide to eat the fries and leave the chicken for the update, then Like at ariund 11:30 pm I’m hungry as hell and I decide okay whatever man I’m eating the chicken already so I eat it and I assume the update will come out tomorrow right okay. Then at like nearly 2 am I say goodnight to my man and I turn the Intelligence Pad off and I’m ready to go to bed but like a swarm of wild pack of roaches approache me in the shape of a discord notification to tell me that the update dropped and that I need to read it ASAP, and so I’m laying on my fucking bed with no food or life or anything to read the update As fast as I could, and after I finish reading it one comically huge tear drop falls down my cheek as I realize that Ryoko made laios so damn hot on those last drawings with the medieval art style like damn she hunker him up to the max I just know he was eating gooooood. But yes no it was a very sweet ending I think the funny part is that it ended in a very predictable way liek all of this was set up since like chaoters 40 or something and we all thought “nahhh that seems to cliche like there’s goign tobe a grand ending to this” but I think the grandness was the friends and Food and cannibalism we made along the way. It was good as hell I love a good happy ending I can’t wait for the anime to drop

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Review Double Feature: Beetlejuice (1988) and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Another double feature, and once again, it's a classic movie and its nostalgic, decades-later sequel. How do they fare?

Beetlejuice (1988)

Rated PG

<Originally posted at https://kevinsreviewcatalogue.blogspot.com/2024/09/review-double-feature-beetlejuice-1988.html>

Score: 5 out of 5

While Beetlejuice wasn't the first movie that Tim Burton ever made, it was the one that made him a goth icon, turning his name into a byword for a particular kind of style that has at least one foot in the horror genre and is often rich in gothic flair but combines it with a strong dose of comedy and whimsy. In this case, he takes a classic horror movie premise, that of a family moving into a new house only to find out that it's haunted by ghosts that don't want them there, and turns it completely on its head by making the ghosts the protagonists and using that setup as the basis for a riotous comedy, powered largely by the force-of-nature performance of Michael Keaton in his comic prime as the titular villain. It still stands as one of Burton's best movies and one of the best comedies of the '80s, especially for the less raunchy end of the genre (even if I wouldn't by any means call this a family film, inexplicable PG rating aside), powered by an all-star cast and an early version of Burton's unique style that was already apparent here. It's a movie where, the moment you see it, you don't need to ask why it's a classic, you just know.

Our protagonists are Adam and Barbara Maitland, a young couple living in the idyllic small town of Winter River, Connecticut who have just died in a car accident. What's more, when they get to the afterlife, they find a tangled bureaucracy that tells them that they have to spend 125 years in their house before they can move on, which means that they have to watch as a new family, the Deetzes, move in from the city and renovate their beautiful home into the modernist art project of the stepmom Delia's dreams and the Maitlands' nightmares. As such, they make it their mission to scare the Deetzes out of the house, easier said than done given the Maitlands' easygoing nature, the fact that the Deetz family's yuppie patriarch Charles sees dollar signs in a possibly haunted house, and the fact that the Deetzes' gloomy teenage daughter Lydia can see them and ain't scared of no ghosts. Out of desperation, the Maitlands turn to the "bio-exorcist" Betelgeuse (pronounced "Beetlejuice") for help, only to get far more than they bargained for.

The secret to Burton's success in his glory days was that, while his movies were spooky, they were very rarely scary. Burton is a man who has a clear affection for classic horror movies and injects their style into his own work, but doesn't necessarily try to replicate the actual terror, instead using that style to make comedies and dramas about offbeat people who are actually pretty normal once you get to know them. In this case, he made what's basically Poltergeist as a comedy, with the ghosts getting as much character as the living humans. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis make for a great comic duo as the dorky yet lovable ghosts who are utterly clueless at being horror movie ghosts. They lift macabre imagery from contemporary '70s and '80s horror movies as they try to frighten their home's unwelcome new inhabitants, but John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper they ain't, and they come off as just lovably pathetic instead as they can't even get Charles and Delia to acknowledge their existence. They're Clark and Ellen Griswold as ghosts, slowly but surely melting down in frustration.

They're not the real reason everybody remembers this movie, though. It is, after all, titled Beetlejuice and not Adam & Barbara, and Michael Keaton walks away with the entire film. Beetlejuice being a comic character may have softened his nastiness and kept this rated PG, but he is otherwise presented as an absolute creep, a guy who sexually harasses every woman he meets, ruins the lives and unlives of everyone of any gender he meets, and looks like a disheveled drunk who isn't allowed within a thousand feet of a school, which only makes his plans for Lydia come off that much worse. (Apparently, the original version of the script made it explicit.) He's a whirlwind of chaos and destruction who, for all his comic presentation, brings the film the closest it comes to being actually scary, like if you took the lower-class lout character from other '80s comedies and recast him as a supernatural villain. There's a reason why Keaton, before his turn towards drama, was one of the biggest comedy stars of the '80s, making both the slapstick and the dialogue feel effortless as he makes both the Deetzes' lives and the Maitlands' afterlives into Hell on Earth.

The other character who's become synonymous with this movie is Winona Ryder's Lydia Deetz, who likely inspired the goth phases ("it's not a phase, Mom!") of an entire generation of teenage girls in the '90s. Her look was instantly iconic, and fortunately, Ryder didn't just let the costume department do all the work for her character. If Lydia comes off in 2024 as something of a cliché, then that's because she helped create the cliché, the archetypal moody teenager of any number of family comedies past and present combined with an interest in the supernatural and a heart of gold beneath her creepy exterior. She's Wednesday Addams as a teen in a yuppie family that doesn't understand her, a few years before Christina Ricci made that character her own, to the point that the only thing that surprises me about the show Wednesday is that it took Burton so long to get the chance to take a crack at a proper Addams Family adaptation. Her parents, meanwhile, serve as her utter antithesis, with Jeffrey Jones making Charles a man who desperately needs to get a clue (especially once his reaction to a haunted house is to turn it and the town around it into a tourist attraction) and Catherine O'Hara having the time of her life as Delia, a full-of-herself artist who it's implied married Charles for his money and whose aesthetic tastes are a comically grotesque parody of everything that people make fun of modern art for. From the moment you meet them, you understand immediately why the Maitlands want them the hell out of their home. If this movie has anything on its mind other than its horror parody and its visual flair, it's making fun of yuppies, and while it's mostly the obvious jokes about how they're a bunch of pretentious dilettantes, they serve the film's style quite well.

And on the note of aesthetic tastes, while this wasn't the first movie that Tim Burton directed, it was the one that made him into "Tim Burton", and it still stands as one of the greatest demonstrations of his distinct and oft-imitated style. It is a special effects showcase, starting with a playful homage to '50s giant monster movies in the opening credits and continuing on with the varied looks of the ghosts we see later in the film, especially as the Maitlands explore an afterlife reminiscent of the worst DMV you've ever been to run by a scene-stealing Sylvia Sidney as a salty, seen-it-all bureaucrat who's Not in the Mood for Your Shit. The music, too, does wonders to set the mood, from Danny Elfman's legendary score that sounds like an '80s New Wave remix of a classic horror soundtrack (as befitting a former member of Oingo Boingo) to the heavy use of Harry Belafonte in some key moments. The look and feel of the film matches the tone of the writing and story, spooky but playful, which makes the jokes that much funnier once they start rolling almost immediately. That said, it's always grounded in something resembling reality, in this case a version of small-town New England drawn less from Stephen King than Norman Rockwell. It's what makes the supernatural mayhem hit that much harder (incidentally, the reason why King himself set so many stories in small-town Maine, before his own style was copied to the point of cliché), and honestly, I think it's the difference between this and other early Burton films on one hand and his late-period decline on the other. A lot of Burton's humor, here most of all, was rooted in the juxtaposition of classically gothic imagery with life in modern America, often suggesting that it was in fact the former that was more level-headed and "normal" than our society that, in its obsession with status and the appearance of normality, can often turn quite whacked-out in its own way. Burton kind of lost sight of this with his later films, but in his earlier movies like this, he was a master at it.

The Bottom Line

Like any great comedy, it's hard to describe in words without ruining the best parts, so I'll just leave it at this: Beetlejuice is still a classic after 36 years. It's a simple movie, but that just means it can sharpen its focus and deliver a hell of a spoof of supernatural horror.

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And now, for the sequel...

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024 A.D.)

Rated PG-13 for violent content, macabre and bloody images, strong language, some suggestive material and brief drug use

Score: 3 out of 5

If Beetlejuice was Tim Burton at his best, then Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is, for better or worse, an encapsulation of late-period Burton, both his continued strengths as a filmmaker and the points where he's lost his touch. The plot is perfunctory, a mess of multiple different storylines butting heads with each other, with Monica Bellucci seemingly only being here as the villain because Tim Burton has a Type while an actual, more interesting villain was wasted. It felt like screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar had tried to cram an idea for a Beetlejuice TV series, or multiple different first drafts from different writers over the course of over three decades, into a feature film, with lots of plot threads that went nowhere and were wrapped up far too hastily for my liking. The first movie wasn't exactly that deep, but this makes it look downright intellectual. But when it comes to the things that Burton's name is associated with, from creepy visuals to a twisted sense of humor, this movie roars to the point that I was able to largely shut off my brain and enjoy it. The returning cast is great, not least of all Michael Keaton demonstrating that he hasn't lost a step even after he became a dramatic actor, while Jenna Ortega gets another opportunity to demonstrate why she's one of the biggest young stars of her generation. The humor is as on-point as it was last time, and while the special effects have a much bigger budget than they did before, they haven't lost the practical, handmade charm of the original. There's more of a focus on horror this time, but much of it comes proudly paired with the comedy, from deaths straight out of Looney Tunes to a running gag about the fate of Charles from the first film that I'm surprised got by with a PG-13 rating. As far as nostalgia-bait sequels are concerned, this one did most of what it needed to, if little else.

The film starts with a grown-up Lydia Deetz, now the host of a talk show dedicated to the supernatural, and her teenage daughter Astrid, a student at a boarding school who believes that ghosts aren't real and that her mother is either crazy or a grifting hack, being called home to Winter River, Connecticut after Charles Deetz dies gruesomely in a plane crash. (He survived the actual crash; shame about the shark in the water around the crash site.) Meanwhile, in the afterlife, Beetlejuice is still plugging away at his bio-exorcist gig, while Delores, the evil witch he married in life who's still pissed at him after they killed each other (the feeling is mutual), escapes from her prison thanks to some carelessness and proceeds to go on a soul-sucking rampage hoping to take her revenge on her ex. Along the way, Lydia's douchebag boyfriend and producer Rory proposes to her out of the blue, Astrid meets a cute boy in town named Jeremy who's into the supernatural, and Delia... doesn't actually get to do much, but any excuse to get Catherine O'Hara back in full form is good in my book.

There are a lot of plot threads going on here, enough that I think I might have missed a few of them, which kind of highlights the biggest problem this movie has, that it's overstuffed with plot and doesn't really have much of an actual story. Even by the third act after everything's started to come together, the plot about Lydia rescuing Astrid from the afterlife with Beetlejuice's help and the plot about Delores hunting down Beetlejuice barely have anything to do with each other, with the former settled in an anticlimatic fashion only to promptly segue into the next as Delores literally barges in. An important plot point hinges on Lydia, a woman obsessed with the supernatural and the dark side of life, being clueless about a grisly true-crime story in her own childhood hometown. This movie does a lot of things right, but its writing is not one of them. It tries to do far too much plot-wise, and it largely faceplants every time it asks me to focus on such. It's a shame, because, while Monica Bellucci had almost nothing to do in this movie beyond look creepy and sexy in that distinct Burtonesque way (see also: Lisa Marie, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green), she did it well, and I wanted to see more of her. A better movie would've found a way to incorporate Delores more directly into the plot, perhaps by having her use Lydia or Astrid to get to Beetlejuice, and given Bellucci more of a chance to shine.

Fortunately, this movie didn't forget to do the same for its other top-billed stars. Michael Keaton still has it as a comic actor, and Beetlejuice is still the same force of nature he was before, a guy who's about as profane as the PG-13 rating will allow and feels eager to punch through its bounds. Catherine O'Hara's Delia, like Delores, doesn't really get much of a plot, but she does at least get to make for some hilarious comic relief, still the same shallow yuppie arteeste she was in the '80s and one whose knowledge of the reality of the afterlife has simply given her false hope of finding Charles again. Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega together get most of the dramatic arc of the film as the mother and daughter Lydia and Astrid, both of them turning in solid performances and Ortega in particular feeling very much like the heir to '90s Ryder in terms of being the one you cast when you want someone who can play a moody teenager really well. (One missed opportunity, though: I think the funniest version of Astrid would've been to make her the biggest girly girl imaginable, one who embraced a life in pink as her own form of rebellion against her goth mother. Not only would it have made sense given the tension between the two, it also would've done a great job of sending up Ortega's typecasting.) The supporting cast, meanwhile, was a who's who of fun bits, from Justin Theroux as Lydia's vapid boyfriend and spiritual guru who feels very much like a male version of Delia (maybe Lydia hasn't escaped her mother's influence as much as she thought) to Willem Dafoe as a Hollywood action hero who died doing his own stunts and now gets to be a loose cannon cop for real in the afterlife chasing Delores and Beetlejuice.

And when it comes to Burton himself, he brings a lot of this movie's best parts. Once I accepted that this was gonna be one of those movies where the plot made no damn sense and wasn't worth following, I stayed for the humor and the style, and this movie largely sticks to what worked last time even if they've got more money to throw around for the effects now. Jeffrey Jones' very public disgrace (I'll spare you the details, but let's just say he was really lucky he didn't land up in prison) means that this movie takes every opportunity it can to piss on Charles' grave with some of the most backhanded "tributes" I can imagine, his over-the-top death rendered in a stop-motion animated sequence being just the start. The afterlife is once again full of cool-looking ghosts whose appearances let you know right away exactly how they died, and while the balance of comedy and horror this time leans more towards actually trying to be scary, the kills are still goofy and cartoonish enough that it manages to remain lighthearted and fun. As a visual stylist, Burton has always been distinct even in his lesser films, and while there's nothing here that's particularly groundbreaking, it's always at least fun to watch.

The Bottom Line

"Nothing particularly groundbreaking, but at least fun to watch" sums up my thoughts on this movie in general. It's kinda dumb and needed a top-to-bottom rewrite, but as a showcase for a great comic cast and a lot of spooky and cool special effects, I had a good time. Check it out.

[theangrycomet-art]

Can we see unmasked Tobe in your style?🥺

He's too powerful without his mask

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hi hi i didnt realize i cant like rb or answer anything answered privately which makes sense cuz its meant tobe private but its a lilinconvenient noq that i think about it but anyway answering stuff about the rewrite!!

the idea that angie can accurately replicate handwriting is so good to me ouagh, i wantee to add something where kokichi's signature was different on angie's note than the actual note for evidence reasons but idk if i ever put that in the doc

okok the wuestions now (i do not remember a lot of these things befause of this having been made 2+ years ago BhbBDFIJGBRJK)

- "how did miu not burn the whole jacket?" - i imagine a leon situation. most of it burned, but a part of it fell out of whatever machine miu made to burn the jacket and she just never picked it up (in part bc she didn't feel like it, in part bc she's dual masterminds with kirumi in this world)

- "why did she wear her jacket if she were trying to frame kokichi?" - yeh no i did not think that through FBHEBIJABFUIA i think me from two years ago just wanted an obvious difference to a character that at first wasnt very suspicious but later was like holy shit ur the mruderer AND HERES THE EVIDENCE sorry i have monster im very shaky so im not fixing typos i hope u can read these BEAUIBDFIUDSFBU

- "miu + angie alliance? :3" - in retrospect i so should have done something with that cuz i lowkey love that idea BUAOHAOJHEAJO

- "[...] if there was a rivalry between your s/i and angie bc of the similarish talents" - never thought about it but absolutely i think yes

- "what was the point of the torture post-mortem?" - angie wanted to make it seem like kokichi had dragged my s/i into his lab and tried to get him to help with some plan but my s/i refused (mightve been my reasoning?) and got to the point he tortured him to try to get assistance or something, angie just wanted it to seem like kokichi had tortured my s/i for some reason (cuz atp they all think kokichi is mega cruel mega heartless ygwim)

with a lot of the above questions i came up with this entire chapter within the span of like... a day home alone on a day off i had from school so i never really changed anything after i came up atih it? and i had reasonings for things i just never wrote them doqn properly and was like rambling to myself out loud ot think that day) (my dogs probably thought i was crazy) (i am crazy)

onto commentary comments :3

YESSS KAEDE IS ALIVE!!!! i wanted her and shuichi to both live in this so i made it happen :3 along with them i think kokichi is the only other of the remaining 5 after chapter 6 that would be alive (kirumi's influence, miu's inventions, they caused Despair and Hell snd whatever yadda yadda i tried making it work and i never really fleshed it out)

ENHABHAJDGBIHA YES ANGIE REPLICATING HANDWRITING HS MY HEART BECAUSE I JUST. i feel like shes really good at replicating styles? like art styles, s the ultimate artist yk, so i feel like she could replicate handwriting pretty well too

BAJHAUAHAJ I QANTED TO MAKE HER HVE SOME REALLY OBVIOUS THING WRONG BUT LIKE TRY TO EXCUSE IT OUT OF TRIAL. i made a few crazy angie sprites actually ebcause i wanted to hold on

crazy angies i made cuz i wanted to do that trial insanely ^ i mightve actually made these before i came up with this idea and then i qas like "WHAT IF ANGIE NO COAT AND NO ONE SUSPECTS ANYTHING UNTIL ITS TRIAL EVIDENCE" idk i had no reasoning to make her go to th etrial qithout her coat other than i wasnt cery good at thinking of incriminating evidence

i cannot actually think of a way to reply to the thing aoubt angie assuming and backing it up with atua + that whole paragraph (it is 12:12 in the morning rn as i type this) but hard agree with everything u say there

ALSO YES ANGIE REALIZING "ATUA" FAILED HER AND LOSING HER MIND OVER THAT ACTUALLY!!! YES!!!

u can like copy paste the format for the trial stuff if u want to btw!! with this i tried to make sure i did a lot of looking into what info i needed (i had an "evidence" tab too but i forgot what i was gonna put there so i left it blank + couldve been the truth bullets or smth! maybe the detailed descriptions for them??? idk) but anyway u can copy paste the actual format itself and leave maybe a few things in each thing to dtermine what exactly it is that you can put there idk idk its 12:15 im struggling BSHBSFDHIHA

ALSO YES HRUTAL MURDER, i didnt realize until i read through it again that it is a very brutal murder + generally brutal case and i put a lot of lements in there but i was very over the top 2-3 years ago so i blame that. id do better now if i could erase my memory of making this case and redo it

also ur welcome for accurate dearh times i think i had to actually look up "does a stab to the back of the neck kill you instantly" i htink the fbi has me on their watchlist now because of that alone BFRUIHRUIAHUIHAGHAH

alos yes i Can read tags on privately answered posts, i watned kokichi angst back then so i thought the best way to do that was to make him fall in love with me adn the n kill myself off BSJAHAUHAHHA, alos probably because i would have died immediately in a killing game so i gave myself the benefit of the doubt for it and made myself live for an extra 4 chapters than i probably would actually live

oookay sorry this rotted in my inbox i now have a spare 30 mins to type this 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

OHHKAY OKAY i was thinking that i was thinking it might be a leon thing or similar to that

AH GOT YAHT👍👍 adding on a little i think it’d be silly if she early on in the trial somebody asked her about her coat and she was like “oh, i lost it!” and everyone brushed it off until later a bunch of things come to light and then its like idk insert reaction i can’t think of anything😞😞

ALSO ALSO if we can fit it in somehow we should use miu + angie alliance, only thing now is would miu hang on until the end in order to not get herself tied up in the aftermath? or would she throw angie under the bus the minute things are turning out bad for her kinda like nagito and teruteru? except she definitely wouldn’t be as nonchalant about things as he was, she’d probably be taking everything as an attack against herself and being super defensive. but at the same time, she also has a super weak will and crumples very easy so at that point she might be more focused on minimizing her position as much as possible? idk im rambling <3

and also that’s so real i have several old aus i made on like testing days and stuff that i just never got around to fleshing out <3 and when i looked back on them they just. SUCKED. so i didn’t do anything with them. not saying yours sucked btw just saying mine sucked [like they were HORRENDOUS. trust.]🫂🫂

off topic i love saimatsu so much <3 anyways the kirumi + miu mastermind thing reminds me of hiyoko and ibuki tbh [LOVE them + that pairing] super super off topic once but me and my friend made a crackship once with ibuki + miu and that just reminded me of it mxnxnd

THATS SO REAL AND TRUE IM STEALING THAT HC

WOOO ANGIE SPRITES!!!! she so deserved to be a killer in the main game idc what anyone says

THE ATUA THING IS A DETAIL ID LIKE TO INCLDIE IN OUR REWRITE BTW <33 OPINIONS ON THAT

YAAY i’ve got the general format in my head for whenever i decide to actually sit down and make the doc since i’ve been procrastinating on that so hard😞

this is so off topic but i feel like you were a theater kid at one point, i barley meet people that are very expressive like you and 9 time out of 10 they are/have been theater kids :3

THATS SO SILLY THOUGH, if im being completely realistic id be the first one gone just bc im stupid😞 and id probably complain about people killing in ways that were stupid to me, id be lucky to get to chapter 2 i think unless i was in some position of power nxbdhdb s/i’s are silly and funny

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CLASSIC REVIEW (Originally From Halloween 2022)

I Re-watched Nosferatu (1922)

With Robert Eggers' remake of Nosferatu hitting theaters this Christmas, I thought I should bring this review back.

Loosely based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, a vampire called Count Orlok, buys land in a new city and causes a plague to sweep the streets.

Examination of a silent film takes a bit of different criteria. You'll notice a lot of discussion online about contrast and filming technique. While watching it, what I noticed most were the choices made for most of shots. It's within these shots that you can see the silent eras limitations and, on the other hand, how it influenced later films.

However, I'd rather talk about how I enjoyed it as a movie and not as a significant step for the medium. Because honestly, after more than 100 years, what else can I say about "Nosferatu" other than what I personally love about it.

THE VAMPIRE

I prefer this type of vampire. The suave or sexy vampire has its place, but I like a creepy creature of the night with a disturbing appearance. After all, vampires are monsters.

Here in Nosferatu an incredibly iconic style of vampire was created. A design that would later be perfected in Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu" remake, as well as Tobe Hooper's adaptation of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot".

BEST SCENE

My favorite scene here has to be when Ellen's cries in the night are juxtaposed with the Count coming for her lover, Hutter. It's such an effective moment and would still work in a film today. In fact, it's probably been duplicated somewhere along the line.

OVERALL

It's still very very watchable. I get that a lot of people find silent films boring. Hell, a lot of people won't watch movies that were made before the 1970's, but there is a lot to love here. The shots, character designs, acting and more are all handled with such care. It's a beautiful film.

Please, before you go out and watch Robert Eggers' new film, rewatch this or watch it for the first time. Give yourself the opportunity to see film grow as an art form over 100 years.

[evilboyroboticsgenius]

⌣⌣　　♡ WELCOME

Greetings, citizens of Fair City,

My name is Theodore Tobias McCallister The Third, but you may refer to me as Tobey or Tobes.

I use He/They/It/Byte/Tech/Droid/Robot/Cyber pronouns, or no pronouns at all.

I am an introject, so this is not a roleplay blog, please do not treat me as such.

It's great to meet you! You know, outside of my usual battles with WordGirl and inventing crazy gadgets, it's nice to have some normal conversations every now and then. I'm kind of a science geek, always tinkering with stuff in my lab. Oh, and you've probably seen my robot sidekick. He's a bit eccentric, but he means well.

As a prodigious inventor and aspiring supervillain, I am here to dazzle you with my brilliance and, of course, outsmart my beloved WordGirl at every turn! Though my schemes may be grand and my ego even grander, fear not, for I am a gentleman of refined tastes and impeccable manners. Yes, even as I concoct my diabolical plans, I do so with a sense of sophistication and style befitting of a true genius.

Anyway, when I'm not busy trying to take over the world (kidding... mostly), I'm just a regular guy who enjoys a good book, some video games, and the occasional adventure. So, what's your story? Let's grab a snack and chat sometime!

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2019 VoicePlay spring roundup — here, there, and everywhere

An eventful start to the year led into an equally busy spring. In particular, they put out a deluge of music videos, releasing a new one every other week during April and May before settling down to a more reasonable pace.

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Celebrate good times

Layne and Tony started the spring by unboxing PattyCake's 100K YouTube subscriber plaque during a livestream chat with their fans. The next day, VoicePlay released a long-awaited video for "Any Way You Want It". A few days after that, VP passed new subscriber milestones of their own on both YouTube and Facebook.

Then the boys spent most of the rest of April working on various projects. In addition to releasing their next video — this time for a Chris Stapleton inspired rendition of "Tennessee Whiskey" — they also had a fair bit of dance rehearsal for their updated "Boy Bands" medley.

They did take a weekend off for some fun times in the middle of the month, though. J.None went to see rapper / singer Tobe Nwigwe. Layne and Cyndi had a night at the theater to see friends in the Andrew Lippa musical Wild Party.

J.None with Tobe Nwigwe and singers // Steins and friends having a night out

VoicePlay then capped off the their April adventures with two nights of shows at a casino ballroom in northern Nevada.

VoicePlay on stage at Cactus Petes in Jackpost, NV — photo by Matt Hartgrave

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The hits keep on coming

May began with yet more music videos. VoicePlay put out their groovy version of Prince's "Kiss", and PattyCake released the second episode of their Villains Lair series featuring a trio of disgruntled fairy tale step-moms.

The day after that, VoicePlay headed back to NYC. This time they hit the town in style for the Shorty Awards.

The winner of their category was announced rather unceremoniously in a montage of several awards, and sadly it wasn't our guys, but they seem to have had a fun time anyway. At the very least, they got to visit New York and meet some other folks who are situationally famous.

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During a couple more weeks plugging away at home, some of the guys also worked on other projects. Layne and Tony finished off a group of videos they'd produced for YouTubers Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden, and J.None played a string of private events with Paradigm Party Band.

Then VoicePlay released their video for club jam "Lost In Japan" in mid-May before heading out of town again for a concert in Fairmont, MN. On the way there, Earl had a chance airport encounter with wrestling legend Shawn Michaels.

Fairmont, MN show — photos by Joseph Kreiss

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On the way home, J.None took a detour to Virginia to attend his high school choral director's final spring show and wish him well on his retirement after more than thirty years as an educator.

J.None and Dr. Don Krudop at the Salem High School spring choral concert

VoicePlay finished the month by filming the fiercely demanded video for an expanded version of their boy bands medley that had been thrilling audiences at live shows for many years.

Backstreet's back! Alright!

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Family time

At the beginning of June, the fellas took a few days of well-deserved rest with their loved ones. Eli and Ashley had a fun night out with an old friend and said hello to Matt Sallee again when Pentatonix came to town on their tour. Layne and his girls celebrated Dori's third birthday with another adorable family music video and a whole royal court of well wishers.

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Back to work

When VoicePlay reconvened once more, they gathered at Rayne's Room for a relatively simple video shoot compared to their recent output — the next entry in their "Aca Top 10" series. This time they tackled themes from popular sitcoms.

A few days later, they hopped on a plane to Iowa where they headlined a concert at Grinnell College's fifth annual Summerfest.

When they got home, they dropped their next album. In response to popular demand, the boys compiled a baker's dozen of the tunes from their music videos over the previous two and a half years, and released them on physical media. "Citrus" includes the best of the best from that period, starting with J.None's first collaboration with the group before he was a permanent member, and spanning through his first full-length co-arrangement for the group.

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As you were

The guys took a little more downtime to close out the month and spend time with their families.

Meanwhile, J.None was still on that grind. He played a set in a group show at a local venue with his occasional collaborator, Daniel Kelley Howard.

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Then he headed over to Cocoa Beach to film a promo video for another gig band called Summer Breeze, which is part of Entertaiment Central's offerings. That group's specialty is, as the name suggests, yacht rock and light retro party tunes.

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Things calmed down a bit for the summer, but that's a story for another time.