In Praise of Shadows

Thanks! And I always will be around making things, I don’t plan on ever going away

I’ve been spending a lot of time in one in the past year here in northwestern NC and I love it. The cabin I stay at is so remote that they can’t get internet there, I’ll go for a few days at a time and it’s a nice getaway

Reading Cabal makes me sad that a certain subgenre of horror where a weird town that’s not on any maps that lies hidden somewhere in the vastness of the unknown lands of the rural Americas has mostly stopped existing because of phones and the internet.

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Just an old stack I found in storage

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New video coming this weekend.

That being said, I know that’s not Resident Evil’s base DNA and I wouldn’t want a Breath of the Wild or Elden Ring situation where the success of a single game then changes the full trajectory of a series. But I wouldn’t mind a one time thing as an experiment at all.

I haven’t gotten to play Requiem yet so I don’t know how they handle these sections in it, but Evil Within 2 clearly showed that you can go semi-open world and do interesting things with it with horror. It’s one of the best horror games ever made because it’s so different.

I saw that! I’ve got the weirdest luck with that stuff. All the Scream nonsense happened right after I made that video too lol I’ve got a few videos that would have been drastically different if I had just waited a few weeks

Exactly, despite its flaws it’s one of the reasons that I think Texas Chainsaw 2022 is one of the smartest legacy sequels. Because the second Sally shows up for her “it’s all lead to this” kind of moment she is immediately discarded. It’s a definitive statement on that kind of stuff.

This is largely what is holding it back as art also on the creative end. Clinging to Sidney, Gale, Stu and acting like the franchise cannot exist without them is directly what has creatively cut these things off at the knees.

It’s funny how the people who are die hard supporting Scream right now are the same ones who are killing it long term. Treating it like it’s a religion or a big cult is off putting for people with normal minds that haven’t been poisoned by fandom. It comes across as deeply weird.

It’s been crazy! The whole mask off (no pun intended) open racism and hate from the Scream fandom has been wild to watch happen lately

Yeah! I think that’s super interesting within his work as well. I’ve always loved his short fiction stuff, I’m excited to keep diving into him more

Well, I’ve decided that I’m actually in the mood to go through the book it’s based on, so now reading:

Same! He’s easily one of the best parts of the film

I rewatched Nightbreed again this week and I wish that Barker had made more films. It’s not even particularly what he was best at so I understand not focusing at it, but the back to back combo of Hellraiser and this have such a feeling to them that doesn’t exist in a lot of work.

It’s very funny that Bloody Disgusting was doing daily promo tweets for weeks for Scream 7, never acknowledging the ongoing conversation around the film in a significant way, and then dropping a review today giving it two out of five stars.

Not surprising at all. Like I’ve said before, being in the room with him it was clear that he was trying to drain as much money from his situation as he could before the ship fully sank. Glad that Magazine Dreams flopped which kind of made a desperate move like this inevitable.

Yeah it’s super frustrating, it will give you like three things that is kind of related to what you asked for and then a lot of stuff based on what you’ve watched. I hate it lol

YouTube’s search function becoming completely useless dogshit makes videos like the one I’m doing right now where I have to pull a hundred plus clips from stuff way more tedious than it should be. Trying to find s specific thing there now is a nightmare.

V for v excited.

My next video was supposed to be out this week. At this point I’m not so sure I’ll hit that deadline, but I’m excited to share it soon. This is the longest I’ve ever worked on a single video, I started it this time last year and I’ve finally gotten to where I feel good about it.

It’s still around actually, but now it’s DVDs. They were a service that took like public domain and cheap horror and other genre movies, mostly very old stuff, and you could order them from magazine advertisements and later from their website.

I saw an old rare Sinister Cinema VHS this past weekend. This one was for 1939’s The Gorilla. I love the comic/pulp style cover layout and design that they used on all their slipcases.

The rest of the movie is just okay, but the opening section to Wilczyca (1983) where a nobleman has to bury his wife who he believes to be a vampire is some of the coolest use of gothic folk horror that’s ever been done. I think about imagery from this section all the time.

I spent some time yesterday wallpapering my set walls in newspaper pages to film my next video, only to come back like an hour later to find that they had all fallen down while I was gone. Going to have to try again and hope they don’t come down while I’m shooting.

Thanks! I need to be more active with it, I’m bad to forget I have it myself but I do like make shorter stuff for it

I was just going through a box of old newspapers for a project and found this one from when Diana was married.