#Veronica Payne

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[pierppasolini]

Pandora's Mirror (1981) // dir. Shaun Costello

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Heathers x dead boys detectives AU???

I know Charles would never be violent and toxic like JD, but I couldn't help drawing the AU 😭

[brokehorrorfan]

Imaginary will be released on Steelbook 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) on October 1 via Lionsgate exclusively at Amazon. The 2024 horror film is up for pre-order for $29.99.

Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2, Truth or Dare) directs from a script he co-wrote with Greg Erb & Jason Oremland (The Princess and the Frog). DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Veronica Falcón, and Betty Buckley star. Blumhouse produces.

Imaginary is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos sound. Special features are listed below, where you can also see the full Steelbook layout.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer Jeff Wadlow and actress DeWanda Wise

Meet Your New Imaginary Friends - Featurette with the cast

Frills and Thrills featurette with costume designer Eulyn C. Hufkie

Crafting the Beasts of Imaginary - Featurette with the Spectral Motion team and puppeteers behind Chauncey the Bear

Bringing Nightmares to Life - Featurette with production designer Meghan C. Rogers

When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter, Alice, finds a stuffed bear named Chauncey. As Alice’s behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize that Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be.

Pre-order Imaginary.

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Imaginary (2024)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Imaginary works only enough to make you understand why we keep getting movies with this premise every few years. It’s not scary or innovative enough to make a lasting impression, practically guaranteeing that you’ll forget it in no time.

Jessica (DeWanda Wise) and her new husband, Max (Tom Payne), move into her childhood home with his two daughters. There, young Alice (Pyper Braun) finds a teddy bear she names Chauncey. Soon, the two are inseparable and Alice starts telling wild stories about her new best friend. When Chauncey starts "asking" her to do bad things, Jessica wonders if the imaginary friend is more than imaginary.

From the premise, I bet you can deduce a lot of what this movie has to offer. Director Jeff Wadlow (who co-writes with Greg Erb and Jason Oremland) spells it out from the first couple of scenes. Jessica has recurring nightmares of being chased by a spider-like monster while her now mentally ill father, Ben (Samuel Salary) tries to protect her. These nightmares are set in her childhood home (a home she hasn't lived in for years) and in them, she appears as a child. Hmm. I wonder. While Jessica gets along fairly well with Alice, she’s constantly butting heads with her older stepdaughter, Taylor (Taegen Burns). It’s obviously so Alice can be taken away at one point, forcing her sister and stepmother to set aside their differences and come to her rescue. Imaginary clocks in at 104 minutes. That’s way too long for a movie whose first half is dedicated to slowly revealing that, indeed, Chauncey is sinister.

There’s a point about halfway through when Jessica brings Alice’s therapist (Verónica Falcón) into their home. There’s a twist about Chauncey that’s actually clever and pretty shocking. Now, the movie feels like it’s picking up, and it does… but silly moments, visuals and/or twists bring it right back down. For instance:

Chauncey has a monstrous form and it’s introduced in an effective scene. Taylor is alone in a room with a spinning night light that plays Chauncey’s jingle (a nice little piece by Bear McCreary). The light moving across the walls is in the shape of a bear. There’s a matching shape on the wall facing Taylor. The two will line up at any second. You know something bad will happen then. There’s genuine suspense that’s undone when we actually see Chauncey's grotesque appearance. I won��t necessarily call the monster design bad but all I could think of when I saw it was "What if we crossed the creature from Cellar Dweller and the Muppet Sweetums?".

There are nightmare versions of several characters at key points during the second half. Their designs are scary in concept but in execution, they just look silly. Coraline did it better.

Finally, there's Betty Buckley as Gloria, Jessica’s neighbor and former babysitter. At first, you think she’s only there to reveal something obvious about Jessica’s childhood but she’s got a bigger part to play in the story and in the end, it doesn’t make much sense.

After Alice mysteriously disappears, Jessica and Taylor learn that it was Chauncey's doing. The imaginary friend had Alice collect various objects to perform a ritual. The ritual opens a door to the Never Ever, Chauncey’s realm. They don't see it happen. They learn what happened from Gloria, who also gives a detailed explanation of what Chauncey is, what it wants and examples of it (or creatures like it) appearing throughout history. The explanation is unnecessary and there had to be a better way for Jessica to find out what happened but if Gloria wasn’t included, the film couldn’t have this lame twist that comes later on. Once she, Jessica and Taylor enter the Never Ever, Gloria reveals that she’s been conspiring with Chauncey and closes their exit so the three of them - and Alice - can stay in the Never Ever forever. Moments later, Chauncey devours her. If something needed to be trimmed, this was it.

Imaginary contains as many clever twists as it does groan-worthy ones. The premise has been done before but this take on it contains new ideas that could’ve carried it over the finish line if it was scarier. Alternatively, it could’ve been shorter by ditching some of the eye-rolling revelations or overcomplicated lore. I like the last scene, I like some of the musical beats and it’s got some clever moments but they don’t make the film worth your time, not when there’s another movie just like this one coming in a couple of years. (August 9, 2024)

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Archie Halloween Spectacular #1, variant covers by Sam Payne

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IMAGINARY (2024) Stuffed bear horror! Preview with teaser

Chauncey wants to play. #ImaginaryFilm, from @Blumhouse and @Lionsgate, materializes in theaters March 8th. The trailer arrives tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/E43PlWauFy — Bloody Disgusting (@BDisgusting) November 15, 2023 Imaginary is a 2024 American horror film about a little girl’s friendship with a stuffed bear that turns out to not be friendly. Directed and co-produced by Jeff Wadlow from a…

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My OCs

Lorna Rowe

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Poppy Hawke

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Veronica Cousland

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Rory Allen

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Olivia Trevelyan

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Constance Payne

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Seren Ellis

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Sarah Shepard

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Amelia Greville

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Amara

Fandom: Assassin's Creed: Odyssey Face claim: Anastasia Tslimipiou Love interest: Kassandra or Alexios

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Horror Movie Review: Imaginary (2024)

Blumhouse sure are spitting them out now, aren’t they? Which, as anyone knows, means diminishing results and while Imaginary isn’t a terrible film by any stretch, it is sorely lacking in imagination. It’s the epitome of dull and uninspired horror.

Blumhouse sure are spitting them out now, aren’t they? Which, as anyone knows, means diminishing results and while Imaginary isn’t a terrible film by any stretch, it is sorely lacking in imagination. It’s the epitome of dull and uninspired horror. Directed by Jeff Wadlow, who co-wrote it with Greg Erb and Jason Oremland. The film stars DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, and…

[jesuslovesus]

Levanta

Hagar foi expulsa da casa de seu servo Abraão, juntamente de seu filho Ismael. Com pães e água, Hagar e seu filho, saíram ao deserto. Depois que a água havia acabado, Hagar sentou seu filho debaixo de uma árvore e se sentou longe dele pois a mesma não queria ver o filho morrer.

"Mas Deus ouviu o choro do menino e, do céu, o anjo de Deus chamou Hagar: “Que foi, Hagar? Não tenha medo! Deus ouviu o menino chorar, dali onde ele está." - Genesis 21:17

Deus ouviu o choro de Ismael e então fez Hagar saber que O Próprio Deus estava cuidando deles, e o anjo do Senhor disse:

"Levante-o e anime-o, pois farei dos descendentes dele uma grande nação”. Então Deus abriu os olhos de Hagar, e ela viu um poço cheio de água. Sem demora, encheu a vasilha de água e deu para o menino beber." - Genesis 21:18 - 19

Deus os saciou, e fez Hagar saber que O Senhor cuida dela e de seu filho.

E o interessante dessa passagem bíblica é que O Senhor, ao ouvir o menino chorar, não vem à Hagar, mãe de Ismael, e diz à ela que Ele à direcionaria à um poço em que ela poderia saciar a sede do menino, mas Deus envia o seu anjo para dizer: "Levante-o e anime-o" Hagar se levantou e então ela teve os olhos abertos para ver o poço.

Muitas vezes Deus não irá nos contar o que está por vir, mas Ele dirá: "Levante-se e anime-se". E quando você se levantar e se animar por meio da fé, O Senhor abrirá seus olhos para solucionar aquilo que te incomodou ao ponto de te fazer se curvar ou desistir.

Porque Deus tem a solução dos nossos problemas, mas as vezes a gente precisa, com fé, levantar e continuar caminhando. - Veronica Payne

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Trailer Oficial: Imaginary

Con estas modas de traer juguetes clásicos a la actualidad y convertirlos en seres temibles, aquí tenemos al clásico osito de peluche, pero bien endemoniado y que la neta si espanta. Continue reading Trailer Oficial: Imaginary

[pierppasolini]

Pandora's Mirror (1981) // dir. Shaun Costello

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Él no quiere que hable contigo… “Imaginario: Juguete Diabólico”

De Blumhouse Productions llega esta película que aprovecha la inocencia de los amigos imaginarios y plantea la pregunta: ¿son realmente producto de la imaginación infantil o hay algo más aterrador detrás de ellos?.

Sinopsis: Cuando Jessica se muda de regreso a la casa de su infancia, su hijastra Alice desarrolla un apego inquietante con un oso de peluche llamado Chauncey que encontró en su sótano. Alice comienza a jugar con Chauncey, pero lo que un principio fueron juegos inocentes y divertidos, poco a poco ser tornaron más siniestros. A medida que el comportamiento de Alice se vuelve cada vez más preocupante, Jessica interviene solo para darse cuenta de que Chauncey es mucho más que un oso de peluche.

Estreno: 14 de marzo de 2024 en Cines.

La película está dirigida por Jeff Wadlow y cuenta con las actuaciones de DeWanda Wise, Pyper Braun, Tom Payne, Taegan Burns, Cecilia Leal, Matthew Sato, Alix Angelis, Veronica Falcon y Betty Buckley.

El elenco atendiendo la premiere el 29 de febrero de 2024 en Los Ángeles, California

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"Imaginary" Trailer, Poster, Images and Motion Poster

Another horror film from Blumhouse with Jeff Wadlow directing an original horror tapping into the innocence of imaginary friends. The story follows figments of childhood imagination. Or is something terrifying lying just beneath? When Jessica, played by DeWanda Wise, moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice, played by Pyper Braun, develops an eerie…

[brokehorrorfan]

Imaginary will be released on Digital on May 7 and on Blu-ray and DVD on May 14. Produced by Blumhouse, the 2024 horror film is currently available on PVOD.

Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2, Truth or Dare) directs from a script he co-wrote with Greg Erb & Jason Oremland (The Princess and the Frog). DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Veronica Falcón, and Betty Buckley star.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer Jeff Wadlow and actress DeWanda Wise

Meet Your New Imaginary Friends - Featurette with the cast

Frills and Thrills featurette with costume designer Eulyn C. Hufkie

Crafting the Beasts of Imaginary - Featurette with the Spectral Motion team and puppeteers behind Chauncey the Bear

Bringing Nightmares to Life - Featurette with production designer Meghan C. Rogers

When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter, Alice, finds a stuffed bear named Chauncey. As Alice's behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize that Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be.

Pre-order Imaginary.

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Do you have a ludography for Eureka? If so, what games are on it?

Yes we very much do! Here it is, straight from the rulebook.

Inspirations

Though Eureka is an original TTRPG built from the ground up to suit the particular needs of our vision, that doesn’t mean we don’t stand upon the shoulders of giants. Below is some media that either served as inspiration for Eureka, or could at least serve as some inspiration to you for what sort of stories Eureka is best at telling.

TV & Movies

Being Human

The Big Sleep (1946)

Columbo

Doctor Who

Friday the 13th

Halloween

Hard Boiled (1992)

James Bond

Knives Out/Glass Onion

Kolchak: The Nightstalker

Laura (1944)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Midsummer Murders

Murder, She Wrote

Scooby-Doo

Scream (1996)

The Third Man (1949)

Twin Peaks

Veronica Mars

What We Do in the Shadows

The X-Files

Video Games

Disco Elysium

Blood (1997)

DUSK

Gabriel Knight

Hitman

Hotline Miami

L.A. Noire

Max Payne

Resident Evil

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Silent Hill

Tomb Raider

Books & Comics

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Dick Tracy

Harrow County

Metro 2033

The works of Agatha Christie

The works of H.P. Lovecraft

Tabletop Games

Call of Cthulhu

Delta Green

Monster of the Week

Warhammer 40,000[1]

Advanced D&D, 2nd edition[2]

[1   sidebar] Warhammer 40,000 may seem like an odd pick, but it actually loosely inspired parts of the combat system of Eureka, like how it makes many inaccurate shots better than one highly accurate shot. It also lends Eureka the idea of providing bullet point summaries after each section. The “Command Point” mechanic in more recent editions of Warhammer 40,000 also served as some inspiration for the Eureka! Point mechanic in Eureka. 

[2   sidebar] Meanwhile, AD&D 2nd edition, unlike D&D post-3rd-edition, is a game that is focused on travel and surviving a dungeon more so than fighting and killing everything in it. Despite that, the game has mechanically complex combat rules, and Eureka also does for similar reasons - if combat is going to be dangerous, it also needs to be deep and tactical.