Even though I'm pretty sure many of us in 2024 harbor suspicions that our world is winding down, I usually cut the temptation to give that idea any credence by reminding myself that every generation up through time has probably thought the same thing. Blame that on all the fearmongering the Christians used a mentally ill poet named Enoch's writings for. That said, when Robert Smith starts singing about the world ending, I tend to ruminate on the idea with a little more consideration.
"I know, I know my world has grown old..."
Fucking chills, mate. Fucking chills.
Spending my post-Halloween morning with the new album from The Cure. You can order a copy HERE.
31 Days of Halloween:
Once again, I closed the season with George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead. I picked this ritual up from my good friend/Horror Vision cohost Anthony a few years back, and it has stuck! I can't think of a more meaningful way to close 31 Days of Halloween and Sam Hain than with the movie that birthed the entire modern era of the genre I love. And NoTLD is Public Domain, so it's all over YouTube and I thought I'd post it here today.
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
11) Summer of '84
12) Rosemary's Baby/Suspiria ('77)
13) Daddy's Head
14) Undead
15) Moloch/Tea Cup (episode 1)/ Evil Dead 2
16) Smile
17) Laura Hasn't Slept/Smile 2
18) Terrifier
19) The House of the Devil - Last Drive-in Presentation (original air date April 26, 2019)
20) The Woods
21) Rob Zombie's 31
22) Carrie 2: The Rage
23) The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
24) Planet Terror
25) Baron Blood
26) The Blob ('88)/ The Thing/Tremors/Abigail
27) Halloween Kills
28) Over the Garden Wall
29) Hereditary
30) House By the Cemetery - The Last Drive-in Presentation (original air date April 16, 2021)
31) Dog Soldiers/The Exorcist (Theatrical cut)/Halloween (78)/ Don't Go in the House/Pizza Panic Party/Night of the Living Dead
Playlist:
Type O Negative - Origin of the Feces
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (Suspended In Dusk version)
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Prince of Darkness OST
Moon Wizard - Sirens
Various - My Halloween Spotify Playlist
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Tinderbox
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Goblin - Suspiria OST
Danzig - Black Aria
Card:
A one-card draw for MY new fiscal year: