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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 month ago
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Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
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rhetthammersmithhorror · 1 year ago
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The Outer Limits | S1.E14 | The Zanti Misfits | 1963
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mudwerks · 1 year ago
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(via The Grim Gallery: Exhibit 4423)
Happy Birthday to Jim Danforth (born July 13, 1940)
James Danforth is an American stop-motion animator, known for model-animation, matte painting, and for his work on When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, a theme-sequel to Ray Harryhausen's One Million Years B.C.
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mariocki · 7 months ago
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The Aftermath (1982)
"What happens when you die?"
"I don't know, son. No one does."
"It's sad to die."
"No. Death isn't sad. We all have to die. What's sad is having to go on without someone you love. Just as we have to go on now."
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ufoandmermaid · 5 months ago
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moorheadthanyoucanhandle · 10 months ago
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MEAT PUPPETS
In theaters this weekend:
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Stopmotion--The peculiar low-tech magic of stop-motion animation has always been one of the special delights of cinema for me; it's one of the reasons I became a movie lover as a child. Because of the work of masters like Willis O'Brien, Jim Danforth, Karel Zeman and the great Ray Harryhasuen, the labor-intensive, expensive technique is often associated with whimsical fantasy or science fiction. But it can be used for nightmarish horror as well, and this nasty, self-referential British chiller, directed by Robert Morgan from a script he wrote with Robin King, takes us to that dark side.
Ella (Aisling Franciosi) is the daughter of famous stop-motion animator Suzanne (Stella Gonet), and an animator herself.  Because she no longer has the use of her hands, Suzanne directs Ella in painstakingly manipulating her puppets; she refers to Ella herself by the affectionate--or maybe not so affectionate--nickname of "puppet," and she's quietly, passive-aggressively tyrannical toward her, constantly unsatisfied with her work, constantly demanding retakes. Ella would like to contribute her own ideas to her mother's work, yet when asked what these ideas are she's stymied, daunted by Suzanne's greatness. 
But when Suzanne falls into a coma, Ella meets a nervy little girl (Caoilinn Springall) in her building who talks her into abandoning Suzanne's project--a traditional tale involving a cyclops--and starting a new stop-motion film based on a storyline she suggests. It involves a terrified girl fleeing through the forest and taking refuge in a cabin, stalked by a hideous figure called the Ashman. She also insists Ella start using actual dead animal parts, and worse, over her armatures. Before long Ella is haunted by visions, some of them pretty hair-raising, of the gruesome characters in her film.
The live action side of Stopmotion has a strong streak of Cronenberg-esque "body horror," while the stop-motion sequences show the influence of Jan Švankmajer and the Quay Brothers. It's a potent one-two punch of creepiness. This is one of those movies where the line between dreams and reality isn't always certain, but Morgan keeps enough of a coherent narrative that this doesn't become tiresome, and there are freaky erotic touches, as when Ella is having sex, and fingers her lover's back as she would a stop-motion puppet.
Like many films of this sort, when Stopmotion shifts to overtly murderous, gory grapples in its last half-hour or so, it loses some of its macabre potency. But Franciosi, who played the stowaway in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, is a compelling presence, and on the whole, this is one of the more memorable horror pictures in a while. The only real complaint is the same one that applies to most films that showcase stop-motion: there isn't enough stop-motion.
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randomdeinonychus · 1 year ago
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Always loved this adorable good guy sea monster.
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Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
by  Zenith Pictures
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ourfoxgod · 13 days ago
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39 books to read if you liked ARCANE
CAITVI SHIPPERS –
1. a study in scarlet women by sherry thomas 2. the lady's guide to petticoats and piracy by mackenzi lee 3. plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth 4. the unbroken by c.l. clark 5. iron widow by xiran jay zhao 6. crier's war by nina varela 7. the drowning empire trilogy by andrea stweart 8. the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon 9. the midnight lie by marie rutkoski 10. the bone shard daughter by andrea stewart
JAYVIK SHIPPERS –
1. vicious by v.e. schwab 2. if we were villains by m.l. rio 3. the secret history by donna tartt 4. the song of achilles by madeline miller 5. the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde 6. a marvelous light by freya marske 7. the magpie lord by kj charles 8. fever syndrome by angela slatter 9. the gloaming by rory power 10. boys, beasts & men by sam j. miller
TIMEBOMB SHIPPERS –
1. six of crows by leigh bardugo 2. war girls by tochi onyebuchi 3. this savage song by victoria schwab 4. the knife of never letting go by patrick ness
JINX & VI'S RELATIONSHIP –
1. we hunt the flame by hafsah faizal 2. girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan 3. the ones we're meant to find by joan he 4. burn our bodies down by rory power 5. sawkill girls by claire legrand
GENERAL ARCANE VIBES –
1. the aeronaut's windlass by jim butcher 2. foundryside by robert jackson bennett 3. gunmetal gods by zamil akhtar 4. cyberpunk: neuromancer by william gibson 5. frostheart by jamie littler 6. the broken earth trilogy by n.k. jemisin 7. black sun by rebecca roanhorse 8. rebel seoul by axie oh 9. we ride the storm by devin madson 10. the drowned cities by paolo bacigalupi
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warwickroyals · 7 months ago
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Sunderland's Royal Jewel Vault (32/∞) ♛
↬ The Trethewey Wreath Tiara
One of the few wreath tiaras in the royal vault, the Trethewey tiara remains one of the most notable tiaras of Queen Katherine (née Lady Katherine Rothman), despite not being seen since the 1950s. The tiara is named after Katherine’s family, holders of the once powerful and influential Trethewey Earldom. The daughter of the Earl and Countess of Trethewey, Katherine’s charmed life was cut short during the Great Depression. In 1931, Katherine’s family moved from their sprawling country estate into a modest three-storey townhouse. The family retained only a cook and the Countess’s lady’s maid, and for the first time in her life Katherine had to do her own chores. A new home also meant a new school, as Katherine’s parents could no longer afford a private tutor. Friends and relatives noted that the once boisterous girl became withdrawn and prone to tears almost overnight. Further tragedy struck when Katherine’s only sibling, big brother Clarence, was killed during World War Two. At the time, Sunderland was constrained by a non-aggression act it passed a year earlier, but many Sunderlandians still volunteered to fight under the Allied forces. Clarence, called Red Clarence for his socialist views, was adamantly against Sunderland’s non-interventionist stance. Despite the pleas of his parents and sister, Clarence volunteered with the United Kingdom’s Territorial Army. Following Clarence’s death, Katherine recalled becoming mad, downright neurotic. By 1941, Katherine’s behaviour reached a fever pitch, I thought I should be institutionalized and that’s what I wanted. To be put away, as they say. So I acted out more and more. My parents saw through me, I think. During this time, Katherine’s favourite exploit came in the form of Prince James, the second son of King George II and an old childhood friend. The two had begun a tryst years earlier, but after Katherine’s brother died James asked Katherine to marry him. I laughed because I thought he was joking, but he didn’t even smile. Said that he’d seen how much I’d suffered and that he wanted to save me. When Katherine rejected James he only became more and more insistent.
He went to Daddy. And then Mommy. Both insisted that it was my choice. He showed up at all sorts of crazy hours. Wouldn’t leave me alone. Every time he saw me, he would throw himself at my feet and cry: “Marry me, Kitty! I’ll make you smile again.” It devastated me; royal life was a terrifying prospect. At the time I’d wanted to fold into myself, become invisible. Now James wanted to put me in a bell jar.
In 1942, Prince James enlisted the help of his mother Queen Anne. Anne had some reservations about Katherine’s suitability for royal life, but she was also firm in her belief that each of her children should marry for love. That spring, Katherine and her mother were called to Chester Palace. Her Majesty sat me down and told me Jim would never love another girl as much as he loved me. Katherine agreed to marry James that summer. I told him to ask that same ol’ question, because I’ll respond the way he wants this time. Upon Katherine’s marriage, the fortune of her parents increased greatly. Their daughter was now the Duchess of Woodbine, the third lady of the land behind the Queen and the Princess of Danforth. Ahead of the wedding, the Earl and Countess gifted their daughter a diamond wreath tiara, featuring diamond laurel leaves between sprays of cabochon rubies. It came with a note about how proud they were and how much they loved me. I cried myself to sleep that night. It was as if something fundamental had shifted, all at once it came to me that I was no longer theirs. In the early years of her marriage, Katherine wore the tiara for her first official portraits as the Duchess of Woodbine. Images of the duchess in this tiara were displayed on stamps, posters, and even cigarette packages. Katherine disliked the publicity, but it was just a taste of what was yet to come in the years ahead. In late 1943, Katherine’s brother-in-law George, the Prince of Danforth, was assassinated. In 1944, Prince James was formally declared heir apparent. One year later, Katherine was pregnant with her first child. By 1956, King James II and Queen Katherine sought romantic comfort from other people. The Trethewey wreath tiara hasn’t been worn since.
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ronmerchant · 9 months ago
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Kong-as created by animator Jim Danforth for a 1972 Volkswagen commercial!
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titleknown · 1 year ago
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@bogleech @tyrantisterror
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In 1970, George Pal worked on a remake of the 1950s horror movie, "The Thing from Another World." He asked special effects wizard Jim Danforth to do concept art of the memetic, shapeshifting Thing discovered in the antarctic.
George Pal's version was never made, but the film was eventually and famously remade in 1982.
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atomic-chronoscaph · 5 months ago
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Flesh Gordon (1974)
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science-criticaltheory · 2 months ago
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Former GOP Senator CALLS OUT Loser MAGA PLOT Ahead of ELECTION.
On a special edition of Legal AF, Popok is joined by former Republican US Senator John Danforth, a controversial public figure who at one time supported Jan 6 denier Josh Hawley for his old senate seat, and was instrumental in getting his friend, Clarence Thomas confirmed on the US Supreme Court.
On the other side of coin, Senator Danforth was the special prosecutor appointed to investigate the FBI's Waco/Branch Davidian disaster, and served as the US Ambassador to the UN. Senator Danforth joins Popok to explain that Trump is a threat to democracy and that we should be prepared for Trump and his MAGA allies to use violence again to overthrow the election results.
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I'm trying to warn people about what will happen after the 2024 Presidential election. US Elections cannot be "stolen" although tens of millions of MAGA true believers are brain washed into accepting this propaganda, as they did in 2021. They haven't changed. MAGA believes this is going to happen again in 2024. MAGA is a cult and like all cults its believers only do what its leader tells them it to do.
See Jim Jones and Jonestown. Violent behavior against others as well as violence that is self inflected works the same way. At times they are the same.
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daibhidjames · 15 days ago
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This weekend of John Lennon's death (& the Germs Darby Crash BTW) here's what was happening in Toronto that week; U2 at the Elmo, the Romantics & the Poles at the Danforth Music Hall (would have loved to have seen both gigs), Jim Carroll also at the Elmo, The Inmates at the Elmo (also both cool), Teenage Head and Fictions at Larry's, L'Etranger & Young Lions, The Spoons, The Scenics and Nash The Slash at the Edge, FM (without Nash) at the Nickelodeon, later that month the Vapors at the Elmo (also cool), Chris Spedding at the Edge, Toronto at Ryerson, The Cry at Headspace, Carlene Carter at the El Mo, Prism at the Music Hall, Rhinegold (w/Gowan) twice & of course Downchild, Whiskey Howl, David Wilcox, Cameo Blues, Rockin Deltoids & Frank Soda played because of course they did. I am also reliably informed that Goddo played the Shoe & the Blushing Brides played in Hamilton. Oh and the Knobby apparently had a mechanical bull. Seriously just look at all the stuff that was happening back then, Toronto used to be a rockin' town;
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randomdeinonychus · 1 year ago
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Always thought this dragon was adorable.
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Jack the Giant Killer | 1962
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arickaandherfictionalothers · 7 months ago
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Stranger Things fam in High School Musical
(Note: for this AU “Taylor” and “Ryan” are siblings and they get the “I want it all” duet.)
Troy Bolton: Steve H
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Gabriella Montez: Aricka H
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Sharpay: Chrissy Cunningham
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Ryan: Eddie M
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Kelsi: Dori
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Chad: Billy Hargrove
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Taylor: Aricka M
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Zeke: Jonathan Byers
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Jason: Patrick McKinney
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Martha: Robin Buckley
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Peyton: Will Byers
Tiara Gold: Max Mayfield
Rocket man: Mike
Donnie: Lucas
Mr. Danforth: Jim Hopper
Coach Bolton: Bob Newby
Lucille Bolton: Claudia Henderson
Ms. Darbus: Mrs. Sinclair
Ms. Montez: Joyce Byers
Vance Evans: Wayne Munson
Darby Evans: herself
Thomas Fulton: Mr. Sinclair
Dave Matsui: Mr Clark
Ms. Falstaff: Nancy
Jackie: Jane
Emma: Erica
Lea: Max
Boi: Dustin(in the role of their little brother)
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Part one: the start of something new, coming soon-!
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