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mistressofmuses) wrote2023-10-29 09:33 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2023-10-29 09:33 pm
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I almost completely managed to forget that I gave myself a gift:
I requested Wednesday off, in order to give myself a three-day weekend for Halloween.
At the time, I'd hoped either I'd come up with some excellent Halloween plan that could sprawl intentionally into a third day, OR I'd hoped that I would forget about it and be pleasantly surprised. It has been the latter!
I definitely didn't get to enjoy October quite the way I'd hoped to. It went by extremely fast, and mainly in a blur of... just ordinary things. We really did have a lovely month weather-wise, and the colors were beautiful. Unfortunately, I'd kinda banked on spending this last weekend (my Monday/Tuesday) getting all my yay! Halloween! feelings/plans out, and the snow the last two days has definitely dampened that. (We wound up with maybe... six or seven inches of snow? Not as much as threatened, but not as little as hoped, and WAY too much for the first snow of the season.)
We're upsettingly lacking a plan for what to DO for Halloween over the next couple of days.
It won't be the haunted corn maze: their last night was tonight, and I wouldn't be surprised if they closed last night and tonight anyway. The corn maze is always fun, plus has the nostalgia factor of having been where Alex and I went for our first official date when he came out to visit me the first time. But it was also *better* back then, lol. It's gotten a lot more expensive and crowded and those more expensive tickets let you access a lot less than they used to.
We might go to a haunted house, though I'd hoped to do one earlier in the month so it'd be less crowded. One of the bigger ones is open through the end of the week, so maybe Wednesday to keep the spoops going, but avoiding the Halloween-day crowds?
I think tomorrow we'll maybe go to the Butterfly Pavilion again, since in October they have their "Spiders of the World" exhibits, and we've only got a couple days left to see them this year. It's also indoors, which will be nice, since it's supposed to still be really cold.
I also need to do my annual "Over the Garden Wall" watch. I'm dismayed that I've made it this far into the month and haven't done it yet.
Do we carve a pumpkin? We'll have to go BUY a pumpkin in order to do that, but maybe.
Do we make some sort of silly Halloween baked good? Do we go to a horror movie or two just like a normal Tuesday for us? There's a goth club concert, but that sounds a bit like the bad kind of exhausting, and it's at the club where drinks are $20+. We can car-bar/pre-game it, but still, I'm not even sure how much tickets are.
I will be very upset with myself if we do NOTHING for Halloween, because it IS my favorite fucking holiday, but the snow has pretty much killed my seasonal enjoyment... I'm hoping enthusiasm and inspiration somehow yet strike!
(Of course, it'd also probably be a good idea for me to spend my extra day DOING ALL THE THINGS I'm struggling to catch up on.)
I requested Wednesday off, in order to give myself a three-day weekend for Halloween.
At the time, I'd hoped either I'd come up with some excellent Halloween plan that could sprawl intentionally into a third day, OR I'd hoped that I would forget about it and be pleasantly surprised. It has been the latter!
I definitely didn't get to enjoy October quite the way I'd hoped to. It went by extremely fast, and mainly in a blur of... just ordinary things. We really did have a lovely month weather-wise, and the colors were beautiful. Unfortunately, I'd kinda banked on spending this last weekend (my Monday/Tuesday) getting all my yay! Halloween! feelings/plans out, and the snow the last two days has definitely dampened that. (We wound up with maybe... six or seven inches of snow? Not as much as threatened, but not as little as hoped, and WAY too much for the first snow of the season.)
We're upsettingly lacking a plan for what to DO for Halloween over the next couple of days.
It won't be the haunted corn maze: their last night was tonight, and I wouldn't be surprised if they closed last night and tonight anyway. The corn maze is always fun, plus has the nostalgia factor of having been where Alex and I went for our first official date when he came out to visit me the first time. But it was also *better* back then, lol. It's gotten a lot more expensive and crowded and those more expensive tickets let you access a lot less than they used to.
We might go to a haunted house, though I'd hoped to do one earlier in the month so it'd be less crowded. One of the bigger ones is open through the end of the week, so maybe Wednesday to keep the spoops going, but avoiding the Halloween-day crowds?
I think tomorrow we'll maybe go to the Butterfly Pavilion again, since in October they have their "Spiders of the World" exhibits, and we've only got a couple days left to see them this year. It's also indoors, which will be nice, since it's supposed to still be really cold.
I also need to do my annual "Over the Garden Wall" watch. I'm dismayed that I've made it this far into the month and haven't done it yet.
Do we carve a pumpkin? We'll have to go BUY a pumpkin in order to do that, but maybe.
Do we make some sort of silly Halloween baked good? Do we go to a horror movie or two just like a normal Tuesday for us? There's a goth club concert, but that sounds a bit like the bad kind of exhausting, and it's at the club where drinks are $20+. We can car-bar/pre-game it, but still, I'm not even sure how much tickets are.
I will be very upset with myself if we do NOTHING for Halloween, because it IS my favorite fucking holiday, but the snow has pretty much killed my seasonal enjoyment... I'm hoping enthusiasm and inspiration somehow yet strike!
(Of course, it'd also probably be a good idea for me to spend my extra day DOING ALL THE THINGS I'm struggling to catch up on.)
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Yeah, they're some sort of bird or reptile feet. But that is 100% a beach ball. Reminds me of the old Doctor Who eps with shoddy effects where there was at least one monster that was made of bubble wrap.
Ugh. An ex was real into Story of O. Never read it, never will, but heard way more than I wanted to.
It's real weird to me when anyone religious - and it is like, 98% Christians - can TALK about how important faith is, and insist that they take their entire religion on faith, and that everything bad is simply a test of that faith, and how everything everything everything is about having unwavering faith... and then ALSO obsess over the idea that everything is also irrefutable proof that other people must believe in.
It should be something personal! I hate evangelical shit that tries to make that personal conviction into everyone else's problem, ha.
Exploring the same topics (and therefore tropes) is part of what genre IS - if something isn't exploring the things that we fear in some way or another, then it isn't really horror! But it absolutely is very much about how those things are used and structured and put together that determines how well it works, how original that presentation is, etc. When it's done well, it's excellent to see.
The Orphanage that I was talking about is... 2007, I think? If that helps to narrow it down. It wouldn't surprise me if there were multiple movies with the title.
I really just didn't remember it much at all, which surprises me. I usually have a fairly good memory for things I've seen, in that I'll at least recognize the scenes or characters, even if I've forgotten what happens. But it was good! I know the court stuff was a polarizing element and that it led to some people not liking it, or finding it boring. I thought it was really well integrated!
It's based off the case of Annaliese Michel, I'm pretty sure. It was a German case from the 70s, I think. An epileptic girl who died of malnutrition after her family opted to treat her via exorcism.
I really don't know how Sinister and Insidious would cross over... I feel like they're very different types of story (for all that I got the titles confused for years.) They also ultimately strike very different tones, and I don't know that I can see it working well to try and blend them! But I'd be willing to be proven wrong.
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Same with og Trek - the effects and costuming were definitely, well, something. But I hadn't seen anything in a long time so cheesy as the beachball with bird feet. I think that might've been the moment when I glared at my friend and said, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?????
I've read Story of O exactly two times. Once when former friends lent to me, and I hated it because BDSM. And then later, after I'd read some actual good things that featured BDSM in a more positive, healthy light, I tried reading SoO again, and I still hated it. Both times I wanted to throw it across the room, and I only did it the second time because it was my own copy of it. It's a fantasy for people who like to feel that level of control taken from them, but even knowing it's just a fantasy, it gives me massive panic attack feels. I don't recommend it. It would tap-dance your squick into a full-blown trigger.
EXACTLY ALL OF THAT. I have Christian friends who, if I ever got to visit them and they asked if I *wanted* to go to church with them (because they wouldn't expect it), I would probably go because they wouldn't be forcing it; they'd include me if I wanted to be included, and well, I don't think one of them actually goes to church, but the other ones in NYC who are Episcopal go to a hugely inclusive church - I mean, they're two guys who are married to each other, and the church does a charity walk during Pride that raises money for LGBTQIA charities, and it's a pretty church there in Hell's Kitchen, so I'd probably go. At the same time, if I was attending something that was pagan oriented, I'd invite them, and I think they'd choose to go to experience it. But that's so rare for me - most Christians seem to want to push their beliefs on people over and over until they've weakened the other person so that they can get their gold star stickers in heaven when they die.
I will say that there are fears explored that I probably can't ever watch - there's a movie with Shawn Ashmore, ironically called Frozen (he played Bobby Drake in the X-Men movies) where his character, a girl, and another guy go skiing, and they decide to do this last slope of the day, and they get stuck on the ski lift with no one around for days to get them down. I started to watch it, and I had to stop mid-way through because it was giving me heights panic attacks. But yeah, totally. Exploring fears and scary things, but when all there is are jump scares, that's not super great after a while. Like...oh another jump scare. Yikes, my heart is beating faster now. And? (I'm also finally watching The Midnight Club, and I thought it was funny how Flanagan was razzing on jump scares by overdoing them in that one scene with the first girl's story.)
That was the one it said it was, but the movie actually playing didn't seem to fit what the description was, so I'm thinking the streaming channel was borked on that one. It's happened before. I'll keep digging for it.
No I've done that before! I watched this one horror movie Demonic, and it was pretty good and creepy. Years later, I'm flipping through Netflix or whatever and see that movie, but it doesn't sound familiar and I don't recognize the title. Halfway through watching it, I realize, "I've seen this one before!" It's weird how that sometimes happens. I thought exploring the exorcism/death through the trial was an interesting method of storytelling for that one. And that is the case - the German epileptic girl. I remember looking that up and sadly not finding a lot of information but just enough to get the gist of the real story.
I'll be interested to see how they mesh Sinister and Insidious, though I would hope that they could get some of the same actors for continuity. I'm still not sure how well they'd cross over - like you said, one is about astral projection into the Further (realm of the dead) and one is about the supernatural crossing over into reality by using - well, that might be it. The entity in Sinister using human bodies (mostly children) to enact the...what? Sacrifices that he/it can't otherwise obtain because he is a supernatural entity? And in the astral projection into the Further, the entities/dead/whatever can enter the human bodies to come out of the Further. Maybe through astral projection, the Sinister entity figures out how to enter the human directly where he/it can walk among humans. Hmm.
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Yeah, I'll pass on reading Story of O. I get that it IS a kink or desire for some people, but it is vastly NOT for me, and I want nothing to do with it.
I'm happy for people to *offer* for friends or loved ones to come participate in something spiritual for them. I'm often even happy to go to those sorts of events and such! At the very least I'd be willing to consider it. But that is rarely the tactic taken. (Or even if it is at the start, then the instant you agree, you're a captive audience and they turn up the pressure on you.) It sucks!
I need to watch The Midnight Club! I never got around to seeing it. (I wanted to, then found out it was intended to be multiple seasons but was preemptively cancelled by Netflix, so I didn't watch it. Just like I stopped watching Archive 81 (not Mike Flanagan) for the same reason, even though I'd enjoyed the first few episodes. I should watch those shows anyway, but already knowing there won't be more despite the story being incomplete makes it hard for me to want to.)
And oh yes, I can understand you not wanting to watch movies involving heights like that!
Jump scares can *sometimes* be effective, but the amount that some horror relies on them? Ugh, yawn!
Bummer the channel was borked. Hopefully you can find an actual copy!
I've had it happen with quite a few movies... some are ones I'm pretty sure we rented back when we had a rental store near us when I was a student, and now a decade+ later we re-find them on streaming. There are some that I remember almost not at all, except for a particular scene or set, or one line of dialogue that I DO remember perfectly clearly. It's weird!
Yeah, the German case gets mentioned quite often in documentaries about exorcism and things, enough so that I recognize pictures of her when I see them used in something... but I feel like most of the things that talk about her have the same fairly basic telling of the story. It surprises me that there hasn't ever been a more comprehensive biography or anything written as far as I can tell, but I suppose it's not like her family would want to participate in something like that.
Yeah... I do see that there could be something like that, with the Sinister entity accessing the realm of the dead, or maybe something where the murdered families are in the Further... The supernatural elements in both series just have such very different vibes to me, it's hard for me to imagine crossing them over in a way that doesn't damage the feel of one or the other. Sinister feels, well, more sinister to me. Insidious is creepy and certainly still horror, but it doesn't have the same sense of DREAD that Sinister does, and I wouldn't want to feel like that was lost. But I'd still be interested in seeing it, if it happens!