Back in 2022 my good friend and co-host on The Horror Vision Ray turned me on to Dreamkid's eponymous album. I liked it, but this guy doubles down on the '80s stuff a couple years after a lot of other people already resurrected that vibe and ran it into the ground, so while I dug the record to a degree, there remained a distance with it for me. I listened to it off and on for a while, then forgot about it.
I Went to see Terrifier 3 this evening. Sold out show. Every seat taken. As I walked up to the ticket taker, there was a man dressed as Art - no mask - and his daughter dressed as the child demon from part 2 waiting to have their tickets scanned. They looked awesome! I mean, I don't know if I should be watching these, let alone a girl who probably wasn't more than 8 years old, but it is what it is and we like what we like. It's not that much different than the shit we watched at that age.
Except... maybe it is. The practical FX here are out of this world, but the cruel depravity of these flicks gives me a bit of pause, even if I've really enjoyed seeing these last two on the big screen. In the theatre, Terrifier 2 and 3 have been some of the most immersive films I've seen in ages. There's the gore, but there's also some incredible sound design. It's as good as the practical FX, in my opinion. Plus, the colors, locations, clothes, props, and music. Paul Wiley's score is fantastic. Sick and dreamy. It all works together to make a super fun watch - even if it also kind of skeeves me out.
Dreamkid's "Chrissy" is sort of the theme of T3, and it sounded amazing on the big screen. Still not super sold on the overall sound - it's good, just a bit tough to get past the affectations for someone who grew up in that era. But again, we like what we like and I'm psyched he got his stuff in such a huge movie.
31 Days of Halloween:
Well, I pretty much said everything I wanted to about last night's viewing up above, so let's just log the list and move on.
1) The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2) The Houses October Built (2011)/Texas Chainsaw Massacre (50th-anniversary theatrical screening)
3) Loop Track
4) It's What's Inside/LONGLEGS
5) The Babysitter/Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
6) The Hitcher/Lost Highway
7) GDT's Cabinet of Curiosities: Graveyard Rats
8) V/H/S Beyond
9) Killer Klowns from Outer Space
10) Terrifier 3
NCBD:
Man, I've been so hyped on 31 Days of Halloween that I forgot to post my comic pull yesterday. Better late than never.
Netho Diaz, in particular, blew me away.
Playlist:
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (Suspended in Dusk Edition)
The Final Cut - Consumed
Saigon Blue Rain - Oko
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Baroness - Stone
The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
The Cramps - A Date with Elvis
Orville Peck - Pony
Various - Lost Highway OST
Boy Harsher - Careful
Dreamkid - Chrissy (single)
Dreamkid - Daggers
Dance with the Dead - Neon Cross (single)
Dance with the Dead - The Shape
The Veils - The Ladder (pre-release single)
Card:
Today's card is XIX - The Sun:
This is what I love about Aleister Crowley. From The Book of Thoth:
"This is one of the simplest of the cards; it represents Heru-ra-ha, the Lord of the New Aeon, in his manifestation to the race of men as the Sun spiritual, moral, and physical."
Simplest? Oh, of course! Heru-ra-ha. Yeah. Easy.
This is a card of epiphany. Rejoice! The answers you seek have arrived. Of course, that can also bring with it unwanted knowledge. So the dance we see is one of balance, a theme much more common in the cards than I previously realized.
