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everyday looks.

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Kicking off my 90's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #Movie #movies #horror #anightmareonelmstreet #freddysdead #freddysdeadthefinalnightmare #wescraven #RIPWesCraven #freddy #freddykrueger #robertenglund #lisazane #YaphetKotto #rickydeanlogan #BreckinMeyer #lezliedeane #ShonGreenblatt #alicecooper #JohnnyDepp #RoseanneBarr #TomArnold #elinordonahue #tobesexton #matthewfaison #cassandrarachelfriel #robertshaye #vintage #VHS #90s #durandurantulsas4thannual90sfest #90sfest

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Bad movie I have Insidious: The Red Door 2023

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'A Nightmare on Elm Street' Movie and 4K Review

The following review was written by Ultimate Rabbit correspondent, Tony Farinella. It’s hard to believe “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. When legends of the horror genre are discussed, Freddy Krueger is one of the most talked about names that comes up in conversation.  It all started with the original, which was directed by horror icon Wes Craven. It was…

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Rudy, Rudy, Rudy -- When Will You Learn???

Most people learn from their mistakes, especially if those mistakes carried a hefty price tag.  Some, however, seem to have brains that are locked into “stupid mode�� and never, no matter how high the price, learn a lesson.  The most obvious example in our society today, of course, is Donald Trump who doesn’t know when or how to shut up, but there’s another who’s almost as bad.  If pains me to see…

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Insidious: The Red Door (15): A sub-par variation on "Poltergeist".

#onemannsmovies review of "Insidious:The Red Door" (2023). #InsidiousMovie. So-so horror sequel: a follow on to Insidious 2 from 2013. 2.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Insidious: The Red Door” (2023). I can’t claim to be an expert on the Insidious series of films. I think I might have seen the first couple. But they were released before I started doing these reviews, so my thoughts on them are lost in the mists of time. Now here comes the 5th in the series, and (intriguingly) we pick up effectively where “Insidious: Chapter 2”…

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Hi~

10, 11 and 12 for the writer's end of the year ask meme?

10. Which character(s) turned out differently from what you had planned? How so?

Alcor, a hundred percent. They were originally planned as a much more ruthless and cruel critter, with much of a different road to go; all in all, their clash with Mizar was planned differently as well. Plans: the two of them teaching one another their worldviews and both accepting and adapting to the uncomfortable knowledge that their worldview is not the only one. Ended up as: two critters with switched around stubborn beliefs, both finding comfort and hope in each other's worldviews. Oop. (The learning to view the world from another point is definitely still there, though.)

11. Which scene was harder/easier to write than anticipated? Why?

Harder: Atonality's midpoint, for the reasons of over-imagining it. A lot of details I pictured there went unused, due to how utterly horrified Mizar is and how out of it Alcor is :c

Easier: Dead Stars' inciting incident. Ironically, for the same reason - I over-imagined and got myself stuck in brainstorming hell, trying to fit the original idea and refusing to give up on it for... way too long. Then, Innerspace came out and suddenly, all the problems were gone. o.o

12. If your characters had their own new years' resolutions, what would those be?

Volta: write more poetry. Shaye: get more comfortable around the troupe. Adal: atone for her every fault (the perfectionism is strong huh). Kao: make cloth, magic-infused bracelets for the troupe to wear. (?) Alcor: get Mizar back home. Mizar: become courageous enough to feel worthy of returning home. Mevel: spend as much time as possible with the Mriya's remaining crew. Lorelei: mess things up for the Svitoch' as much as she can. Avala: keep a close eye on her friends and lift their spirits as much as possible.

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#UNFIT In more ways than one.

New Billboard up in Michigan just north of Birch Run on I-75

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

May 22, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

Trump’s lawyers rested their defense of the former president today, putting an end to the testimony we will hear in the case. Trump did not testify. 

Trump's refusal to take the stand encapsulates the MAGA approach to politics. Since the 2020 presidential election, he and his surrogates have made repeated accusations and statements about how the system is rigged against them and alleged there is evidence that proves them right. 

Crucially, they make those arguments only in front of television cameras or on podcasts and radio. They refuse to make them under oath in a court of law, where there are penalties for lying. 

After the 2020 presidential election, for example, lawyer Sidney Powell insisted to media outlets that voting machines switched votes from Trump to Biden. When Dominion Voting Systems sued her for defamation, her lawyers defended her by saying: “No reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.” “[R]easonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process,” they said.

Similarly, Trump ally Rudy Giuliani insisted that Georgia election officials Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye (Shaye) Moss were changing votes from Trump to Biden. When they sued him for defamation, he conceded that “to the extent the statements were statements of fact…, such…statements were false.” When a jury awarded Freeman and Moss more than $148 million in damages, Giuliani filed for bankruptcy and continued to defame them. 

Freeman and Moss sued him again, asking a court to stop him. Today, in a settlement in bankruptcy court, Giuliani "agreed to never again accuse either [Ruby] Freeman or [Shaye] Moss of engaging in any wrongdoing in connection with the 2020 election,” according to the women’s lawyers.

Like his colleagues who advanced lies to shape a narrative, Trump insisted that he would testify in his own defense. “I’m testifying,” he said before the trial. “I tell the truth, I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is that there is no case.” 

Then he tried to weasel out of that promise by saying the gag order put in place to stop him from attacking witnesses or members of the court and their families prevented him from testifying. “I’m not allowed to testify, because this judge, who’s totally conflicted, has me under an unconstitutional gag order,” he told reporters. Judge Juan Merchan corrected him, clarifying that Trump had the “absolute” right to testify and that the gag order “does not prohibit you from taking the stand and it does not limit or minimize what you can say.”

Nonetheless, true to form, Trump declined to testify despite all his protestations. Instead, he has argued his case in front of the television cameras. “I had nothing to do with it,” he said yesterday. “A bookkeeper put it down as a legal expense. This is why I’m here, because we called it a legal expense, a payment to a lawyer.”

Dan Froomkin of Press Watch noted that juries cannot consider in any manner the fact that a defendant doesn’t testify. “But the court of public opinion is under no such obligation,” he wrote. “And, notably, it is the court of public opinion that is voting in November.”

The court of public opinion weighed in on the man who pioneered the practice of telling repeated lies to the cameras and then moving onto the next lie before journalists can fact-check the first. That man was Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI), who as a mediocre freshman senator in 1950, during the Cold War, needed an issue for reelection. On February 12, 1950, at a meeting gathered to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in Wheeling, West Virginia, he claimed there were 205 members of the Communist Party working in Democratic president Harry S. Truman’s State Department. 

By the next day, the number had dropped to 57, and the numbers bounced around after that, but it didn’t really matter. McCarthy insisted that Truman was protecting Communists, and he ramped up his claims that there were Communists in government after voters put Republican Dwight Eisenhower into office. McCarthy’s investigation of the State Department enabled him to bully witnesses, spread innuendo, and destroy careers. 

McCarthy loved attention and headlines. He kept them by concocting ever grander lies. His hearings produced little evidence of Communists in government, but newspapers found they had to reprint his false accusations—they were news, after all—and by the time they could issue corrections, the storyline had moved on. 

Finally, in fall 1953, McCarthy accused Eisenhower’s beloved U.S. Army of harboring “subversives.” In early 1954 the Army turned the tables, charging that McCarthy had pressured army officers to give a friend favorable treatment. This time, unlike McCarthy’s congressional investigations, which were behind closed doors and spread to the media on McCarthy’s terms, the Army-McCarthy hearings were televised.

The chief counsel for the Army, Joseph Nye Welch, repeatedly demanded that McCarthy’s aide Roy Cohn provide to the U.S. Attorney General the names of the 130 “subversives” they claimed were in defense plants. Unable to do so, McCarthy pivoted to accusing one of Welch’s young associates of being a Communist. 

“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Welch asked. “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

Up to 20 million people watched on their televisions as McCarthy was finally facing real lawyers and oaths in a congressional hearing about his accusations that Communists had infiltrated the U.S. Army. And when they saw him for what he was—a vicious, lying bully—most of them turned against him. His popularity plummeted, reporters ignored him, and the Senate “condemned” him in December 1954. When he died two and a half years later, Democrat William Proxmire, who won his seat, told voters that McCarthy was “a disgrace to Wisconsin, to the Senate, and to America.” 

But McCarthy’s serial lying had shown how to dominate politics with an unceasing string of lies. 

There is a direct line from McCarthy to Trump in the person of Roy Cohn, who became a New York power broker after his years with McCarthy, helped the Trump Organization when the federal government sued it for racial discrimination, and mentored Trump as he rose to fame in New York. That relationship is chronicled in the new biopic about Trump, The Apprentice, now debuting at the Cannes Film Festival. Trump campaign spokesperson said that the Trump campaign will be filing a lawsuit “to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.”  

There is perhaps even a more direct line from McCarthy to Trump today than the one Cohn provides. After the trial today, Trump noted that the Department of Justice had “AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE—25TH AMENDMENT!” In an email with a subject line “They were authorized to shoot me—I nearly escaped death,” the Trump campaign said: “Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger…. But here’s the one thing they don’t know: WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!”

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) exaggerated the story further: “The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres[ident] Trump and gave the green light…. What are Republicans going to do about it?”

The truth, as former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi noted, is that there was nothing special about the order for Trump’s search warrant. “[E]very FBI operations order contains a reminder of FBI deadly force policy. Even for a search warrant. Deadly force is always authorized if the required threat presents itself,” Figliuzzi wrote. 

MAGA lies have become part of the Russian state narrative. Following the 2020 presidential election, the Fox News Channel had to pay $787 million to Dominion Voting Systems after its personalities repeated MAGA lies on air. Less than a week later, popular host Tucker Carlson, who pushed those lies, left the channel and launched his own show on X. Today, news broke that Russian TV has been dubbing Carlson’s show into Russian and rebroadcasting it on state TV. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[diwns]

tender love.

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Friday The 13th movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...Freddy vs Jason (2003) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #fridaythe13th #fridaythe13thpart11 #anightmareonelmstreet #freddyvsjason #seanscunningham #jason #jasonvoorhees #KenKirzinger #wescraven #RIPWesCraven #freddy #freddykrueger #robertenglund #monicakeena #JasonRitter #kellyrowland #katherineisabelle #lochlynmunro #brendanfletcher #kylelabine #jessehutch #zackward #davidkopp #chrisgauthier #robertshaye #ChrisMarquette #garrychalk #tombutler #spencerstump #vintage #VHS #2000s

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THE UNIVERSE IS YOUR STAGE- PERFORM! AND DONT WORRY, WE’RE ALL HERE FOR THE SHOW. 🐩💘👛🐽🦄🐝🐝🐥🪼 ♥︎☆🝊𐬾

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PATIENT ZERO: PECAN

*bubble gum pops* HELLO AGAIN tumblr nation…it’s your favorite truckstop whore in the flesh.. nyeah………ANYWAYS. For those who haven’t come to know me my names pecan and I run a church (my blog) where we smoke newports and attend sermons (whatever bullshit posts I have to give) PLEASE! Make yourselves at home- the body of Christ is a gift that keeps on giving.

Specimen Info:

-My name is pecan, and I also sometimes go as pecanpie. Other aliases include: Cherry Ferry Fantasia. Choose wisely how you refer to me- or don’t, I don’t even exist!

-I’m 19 and female, you can use whatever pronouns when referring to me, but I usually go by she/her 🪭🪭🪭

-ADHD

-aroace, with a hint of bisexuality.

-My hobbies include: drawing, writing (though I rarely ever do finish my pieces let alone publish them) collecting worthless garbage, listening to music and blowing my eardrums out, being an eternal pain in the ass to deal with, thrifting, sitting on porches, smoking winstons, masquerading as a sane individual, dressing up, and trying out new things because I am an avid dopamine chaser. woohoo!

Things I like: Pretentious media, throwing pitchforks at rich priests, consumerism, otome games, douma, buddhism, echo rose, religious studies, args, reaching divinity, shitty manga, maximalism in every sense, bedazzled stuff, money, getting tacky nails, the roaring 20’s, 1950’s femme fashion, old era aesthetics, boutique shops, leopard print, grandma couches, Hollywood reality media, Madonna’s American Life album, Smokey eyeshadow, pathetic wet sop characters and a lot more.

-I have two cats, Mochi and Waffles. The bloodline ends with yours truly.

Fandoms I’m currently active in; see bio :)

Movies I like: Pink Flamingos, No Country For Old Men, Helter Skelter, Pulp Fiction, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Girl Interrupted, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Spun, Gummo, Last Night in Soho, Fruit of Wonder, Elephant (2003), The Royal Tenenbaums - will be updated the more I get my hands on anything new that tickles my fancy.

My taste in music: I’m pretty versatile when it comes to what I prefer, so it could range from bimbo-pop to classical music. Anything that sounds good to me I like. I mostly listen to 50’s housewife songs and lady Gaga, though.

-I’m a big fan of indie art and surrealism. Filmmaking as well. Shaye Saint John and Mouchette.org are a few of my favorites.

-I like mortuary work and autopsies. I hold the death industry in high regards- not everyone is willing to work with corpses.

-huge GIGANTIC douma fan. anything and everything douma related I will not hesitate to engage with, he’s my little guy.

- heart sunglasses ambassador (this is my trademark) ❤️

-Polka dot prints and faux fur are resounding yesses.

-You know Florence? (If you get the reference.)

-I think vintage pill cases are lovely.💋

-I have the response time of a limp dick. I either respond in less than a second or only after 3 business months.

-I’ve been working on my new oc line on and off for a few months now, called FEAR & LOATHING in JERUSALEM. artblock is a massive bitch, but stuff is in progress.

Anyways if you’re a terrible human being feel free to block me, you are not welcome onto my blog thank you very much xoxo (transphobes homophobes ableists you know who you are)

GOT COMPLAINTS? CONTACT ME AT 1-666-JERUSALEM-CRACK-SHACK! Make sure to leave me a message. Business hours only!

MASTERLIST: IN THE WORKS?

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Ultimate Rabbit Audio Commentary on 'Pump Up The Volume'

Okay everyone, The Ultimate Rabbit is doing something new here, at least for him. I am doing my first ever audio commentary, and it is for the 1990 film, “Pump Up The Volume.” Written and directed by Allan Moyle, it stars Christian Slater as Mark Hunter, a high school student who has been uprooted from his hometown in New York and now lives with his parents in Paradise Hills, Arizona. Depressed…

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Happy bday to @vectaboom 's reborn oc, Shaye !!

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🖤🖤🖤 Sara Berry and Carrie White 🖤 Cruella De freaken Vil, Ursula and the Evil Queen 🖤 Elenour and Drea from Do Revenge 🖤 Jennifer Check and G r a n n y B o o n e and also Lin Shaye's character Anna in Midnight Man 🖤 That girl in The Red Means I Love You 🖤 Pearl!! 🖤 Harley Quinn and the Queen of Hearts 🖤 Norma Bates !!! 🖤 The Fairy Godmother in Shrek and Amanda Young 🖤 Lena Hyena 🖤 Anna the Huntress and Lisa Sherwood the Hag and Sally Smithson the Nurse and Charlotte DeShayes the twins 🖤 Madame Medusa and Madam Mim too!! 🖤 Tiffany motherfucking Valentine and Baby motherfucking Firefly (and her mum ^^) 🖤 Belatrix Lestrange and Magica De Spell 🖤 Fox Gothams Barbara Kean 🖤 Every version of 'A'!! 🖤 P a m e l a V o o r h e e s- 🖤🖤🖤

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Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1993)

While the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise had three solid-to-pretty-good first entries, it rapidly devolved into garbage after that - without ever turning into "so bad they're good" trainwrecks or silly fun in the same way the Friday the 13th films did. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is the much-needed breath of fresh air the series needed. Writer/director Wes Craven thinks outside the box with this one. It's so innovative that if you kinda liked or didn’t mind the likes of Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, I’m not sure you’ll even like it.

Heather Langenkamp (playing a fictionalized version of herself), famous for playing Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street, is approached by Wes Craven (playing himself) and New Line Cinema to return to the series despite it ending definitively with Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. Plagued by strange nightmares her husband, Chase (David Newsom), assures her are caused by the frequent California earthquakes, disturbed by the unusual behavior of her son, Dylan (Mike Hughes), and worried she’s already losing her mind, she’s hesitant to accept the offer.

Released three years after the “final” chapter, this one must’ve left audiences wondering if they'd stepped into the right movie. Most of this story plays out like a psychological drama rather than a slasher film. There’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding Heather and her state of mind until the last act (actually, it could’ve stood to have been even more ambiguous but we’ll get to that). When we see Freddy Krueger (once again played by Robert England), he doesn’t crack jokes the way we’ve grown accustomed to him doing and his design is radically different. More effective? No, but there’s no mistaking this sinister character for the one we ridiculed previously.

It’s a much more cerebral and self-aware story than we’re accustomed to - horror or otherwise. Many shots are direct callbacks to the most iconic scenes of the 1984 original. Numerous actors play themselves and comment on the effect the films have had on their careers, psyche or lives. It makes the actors who don’t play themselves but have been previously featured in the series stand out. Lin Shaye played a teacher in the original movie. Surely Heather should recognize her but she doesn’t. As the plot progresses and Heather becomes more unhinged, the lines between reality and fiction become increasingly blurry. It’s superbly executed.

While the reveal that Freddy Krueger wants to leave the fictional world and enter our world may not surprise everyone, I didn’t see it coming 100%. It’s another layer of self-awareness that makes your head spin. In the movies, Freddy “wasn’t real”. He had no physical form but his actions were tangible. The process is happening again but on a wholly different level. While this requires some retconning/reimagining of the character, this choice could not have worked with any other movie slasher or a newly-invented one. For better or worse, everyone knows who you’re talking about when you say “Freddy”. He is just as well-known as Santa Claus. I'll remind you that the postal office confirmed Santa exists, so…

The film’s conclusion is, unfortunately, where Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is at its weakest. The ‘90s special effects generally haven’t aged well and they’re poured on heavily during the overly-lengthy final act. It devolves into standard Elm Street stuff, which is too bad. Everything preceding it is so fresh, so new.

Unless you’re counting 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street or Freddy vs. Jason (which ignores this film), Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is the final story in the series and it’d be hard to come up with a better way to cap things off. This seventh installment brings it all back to the beginning and plays with many great ideas, the kind uniquely applicable to this series. The performances are strong, the filmmaking gives you a lot to think about and it's memorable. (On Blu-ray, December 13, 2019)